Hawapi 2023: Fuera De Contexto / Out Of Context
Hawapi is an independent Peruvian arts organization that holds annual encuentros for artists and other researchers in territories beset by extreme eco-social and political struggles. Since Hawapi鈥檚 inception over 10 years ago, these sites have included a disappearing tropical glacier in the Andes, an informal gold mining community in the Amazon, and a re-incorporation settlement for FARC ex-combatants in northern Colombia, among others.
To celebrate and critically survey Hawapi鈥檚 first 10 years of activity, this year鈥檚 encuentro will take place September 9鈥�20 at PS122 Gallery, and bring together more than 30 artists and researchers from across the Americas, all of whom have participated in previous editions of Hawapi. As the base of operations, PS122 Gallery will be the testing ground for an embodied cartography where the group will develop and produce works, share meals, and stage conversations, readings, performances, screenings, and other interventions throughout the encuentro period. The group will collectively propose, discuss, and develop projects that map a cartography of interconnected relations between sites where Hawapi has operated in the past and New York City, as a center of political, economic, and cultural decision-making in the hemisphere.
鈥淲hen we received PS122鈥檚 invitation to do a retrospective we were initially reluctant to accept as we had started to question the idea of the gallery as a relevant site for Hawapi. However, when it occurred to us to gather people instead of works, we started feeling like we could use the opportunity to generate something which not only would serve to contextualize Hawapi鈥檚 trajectory, but might also lead to meaningful insights and new questions about how art practices can connect distinct territories. We are still not sure we made the right decision, but hope that what emerges from our time in NYC will be worth the considerable effort, expense, and carbon footprint expended. What will be left behind in the gallery is anyone鈥檚 guess.鈥� 鈥� Maxim Holland, Hawapi Founder and Co-Director
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Hawapi is an independent Peruvian arts organization that holds annual encuentros for artists and other researchers in territories beset by extreme eco-social and political struggles. Since Hawapi鈥檚 inception over 10 years ago, these sites have included a disappearing tropical glacier in the Andes, an informal gold mining community in the Amazon, and a re-incorporation settlement for FARC ex-combatants in northern Colombia, among others.
To celebrate and critically survey Hawapi鈥檚 first 10 years of activity, this year鈥檚 encuentro will take place September 9鈥�20 at PS122 Gallery, and bring together more than 30 artists and researchers from across the Americas, all of whom have participated in previous editions of Hawapi. As the base of operations, PS122 Gallery will be the testing ground for an embodied cartography where the group will develop and produce works, share meals, and stage conversations, readings, performances, screenings, and other interventions throughout the encuentro period. The group will collectively propose, discuss, and develop projects that map a cartography of interconnected relations between sites where Hawapi has operated in the past and New York City, as a center of political, economic, and cultural decision-making in the hemisphere.
鈥淲hen we received PS122鈥檚 invitation to do a retrospective we were initially reluctant to accept as we had started to question the idea of the gallery as a relevant site for Hawapi. However, when it occurred to us to gather people instead of works, we started feeling like we could use the opportunity to generate something which not only would serve to contextualize Hawapi鈥檚 trajectory, but might also lead to meaningful insights and new questions about how art practices can connect distinct territories. We are still not sure we made the right decision, but hope that what emerges from our time in NYC will be worth the considerable effort, expense, and carbon footprint expended. What will be left behind in the gallery is anyone鈥檚 guess.鈥� 鈥� Maxim Holland, Hawapi Founder and Co-Director
Artists on show
- Adriana Ramírez
- Aileen Gavonel
- Alejandro Jaime
- Ana María Saavedra
- Andrea Muñoz
- Arthur Holland
- Courtney Smith
- Deborah Delgado
- Eliana Otta
- Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
- Gabriela Flores
- Gabriela Leon
- Gianine Tabja
- Henry Palacio
- Huanchaco
- Irazema H. Vera
- Ishmael Randall Weeks
- Iván Navarro
- Jenny Diaz
- Jesenia Rodríguez
- Jessica Segall
- Luis Alarcón
- Mark Dorf
- Matias Labbé
- Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira
- Muriel Holguín
- Ralph Bauer
- Raura Oblitas
- Sandra Nakamura
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