Encuentro de curadores 94

1994-The Curator as creator

By abdel Hernández San Juan

Guest panelist lecturer, first encounter of curators, puerto la cruz

The Curator as creator was a conference lectured by abdel Hernández San Juan at the first encounters of curators of Venezuela, throught the lecture abdel theorized and analized the contigencies of Curatorial practice in the field as, on the hand, the result of a formation process sociologically discussed which progresibly started to relativize the disciplinary boundaries between the old producer and the old art critic, while on the other hand, the contigency evolves too interdisciplinary explorations such as for example jean fracoys  Lyotard exhibit  "the inmateriales" at pompidue about which abdel discussed both the catalogue and the exhibit focussing general posmodern sociocultural issues on scriptural economies, textual economies and in general the relation between the complejization of values formations at mediation and intermediation logics and the progresive evolutión of curatorial practices as a young field to become a sobreordinate supradiscursive practices of discourses and enuntiations production tends to transform the curatorial profesional profile (and the formation of curators) in a modality of creation or at least a domain of practices needed to be defined under theories of creativity.
The encounter included conferences by abdel Hernández San Juan, Rina Carvajal and María luz cárdenas between others and was promoted at the universal news paper, see quoted references, (En la jornada Abdel Hernández levanto la polémica con sus opiniones sobre la figura social del curador en el contexto del arte contemporáneo. Abdel Hernández habló del nuevo arte de los intermediarios. La Dimensión Económica de la Contemporaneidad entró de lleno en las discusiones del segundo día del Primer Encuentro Nacional de curadores de arte con la intervención del joven teórico cubano Abdel Hernández San Juan sobre el nuevo arte de los intermediarios, Diario El Universal, Caracas, 16 de Abril, noventa y cuatro, 1994 ), this encounter was coordinated by Venezuelan research and curator Vicky (victoria galarraga), from the sectorial direction of museums of the conac, ministry of culture of Venezuela, when Vicky worked as curator assistance of Roberto Guevara and the barro of america panamerican bienale, developed in puerto la cruz, Venezuela, 1994