Next stop of Archimobile: Miami


The mobile version of the Archivo de Creadores de Madrid has travelled to the Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana en Miami, where it will exten its stay until the end of january 2012. To mark its new trip to the coasts of Florida, curator and artist Gean Moreno (New York, 1972) has selected 64 artists from among the 130 who make up the archive. Documentation on the selected artists is now available to the public in the Archimobile, the mobile archive designed by El Último Grito that serves as a documentation centre and where public can to see the artists’ CVs, including interviews, texts, statements, images of their work, catalogues and more.

 

In addition, Moreno has also invited artist Maya Watanabe to perform a work in situ on the U.S. center, which consists of a vinyl related to her audiovisual Abrasis.
 

 

Moreno is based in Miami. He has organized various exhibitions, including Vanishing Points at the Bass Museum of Art, Don’t Torture the Rotten Ducklings at the Institute of Visual Art, Conditions of Display at The Moore Space, and Constant Disturbance at Spanish Cultural Center, among others. He was also Director of Programming at Locust Projects from 2002-2006. He has contributed texts to various catalogues and anthologies, including Uncertain States of America! (Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo), Round-Leather Worlds (Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin), Catastrophy? What Catastrophe!? (Quebec Biennial), 2009 e-flux Reader (Sternberg Press, New York), Eat the Frame! (DFI Publishers, Amsterdam), Statements of Necessity (Alonso Art, Miami), and Peter Friedl (Extra City, Antwerp). He is currently contributing editor of Art Papers magazine, and has published in e-flux journal, Monu-A Magazine for Urbanism, Flash Art, Art Nexus, and ArtUS. In 2008, he founded [NAME] Publications, a platform for book-based projects. He is adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University.