Despacio’s mission is to keep doing what it has been doing for the past decade: consistently exploring new models of artistic and curatorial practice while remaining a driving force in the continued development of Central America’s artistic voice.
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Federico Herrero
Founder (2007-19)
Cristina Ramirez
Production (2018-19)
Erno Hilarion
Exhibition Manager (2015-19)
Sandino Scheidegger
Curator (2015-19)
Mimian Hsu
Director (2012-15)
Roberto Chaves
Production (2013-17)
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Despacio
Happened in October 2016
San José
Words Ending on Tape
Despacio collaborates with Printed Matter, Inc. (New York) to revive an almost lost medium. A few decades ago the cassette tape was the most convenient way to record sound material, yet with the fast advancing digital world it is at the verge of being completely forgotten. Nevertheless, artists have continuously used this format to further expand their forms of expression. Listen to the sound of a diary, bodies, an unstable table, singing sand, and of a disassembled cassette in our newest Library in Residence.
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Printed Matter, Inc (New York) presents a selection of artists' audio on tape.
The projects include conceptual performance works for voice, improvised 'talk pieces', artists working in the sound/song medium, and sound projects that derive from work on paper, or that are conceived in connection with a companion artists' book. Several works of experimental audio reflect on the physical medium of the cassette itself, building on found sound or field recordings from the natural world that have been auto-tuned, tweaked and layered to create new meaning.
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The library will be on display from October 20, 2016 on. Following eleven audiotapes were chosen for the Library in Residence:
Birds, Whales and Singing Sand
Aaron McLaughlin
One Mile High, 2012
The Archaeology of Home & Lemons
David Antin
Self-published
Unstable Table
Nonhorse (G. Lucas Crane)
High Performance Audio
Friedrichstraße 4, buzz "Shin" at door
Kayla Guthrie
Published by 100%
Dan Graham
Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London
Published by Primary Information
Endless Audio
Jonas Bers, Spreaders, Matt Luczak, Anima Projection
Published by Endless Audio
The Sound of a Cassette Disassembled
Justin Meyers
Published by Tone Filth
Diary
Aki Onda
Published by Gil Arno/Unframed
Diary
Denise de la Cerda and Alan Sondheim
Damaged Life
Babbally: The Destruction of Mindfuck Diplomacy
mIEKAL aND
Cleveland: Burning Press, 1990
Bodywork No. 1
By Cat Lauigan, Matt Brownell
Brooklyn, 2014
Printed Matter is a world’s leading art bookstore dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books and has become an important voice in the art world. The nonprofit art bookstore was started by Sol LeWitt and the art critic Lucy R. Lippard.
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Printed MatterPartnerKeith GrayAccompliceAnna HugoProducerMax SchumannThanksAaron McLaughlinArtistDavid AntinArtistG. Lucas CraneArtistKayla GuthrieArtistDan GrahamArtistJonas BersArtistSpreadersArtistMatt LuczakArtistAnima ProjectionArtistJustin MeyersArtistAki OndaArtistDenise de la CerdaArtistAlan SondheimArtistMiekalArtistCat LauiganArtistMatt BrownellArtist