Curator

Inti Guerrero

Inti Guerrero (Colombia) is an Amsterdam based curator. He is a former fellow of De Appel's Curatorial Program and currently a researcher of the curatorial platform ‘If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution'. Recently he curated ‘Duet for Cannibals', a screening and talks program at the Royal Tropical Institute which brought together a number of 1920's archival film of the late Colonial Institute of the Netherlands in dialogue with videos and films by contemporary artists and filmmakers like Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Christodoulos Panayiotou and Patrizio di Massimo a.o. He has also curated for the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo the group show ‘The City of the Naked Man', which was based on a 1930's urban master plan by Brazilian architect Flavio de Carvalho, who envisoned a city for a mankind without God, property or marriage. He has been a Curator-in-Residence at ondazione Snadretto Re Reabusengo in Turin, and Capacete Entretenimentos in Rio de Janeiro. For this program Inti Guerrero has invited:

Guests

Victor Manuel Rodriguez

(Colombia) is a cultural & gender studies scholar, writer and curator. Rodriguez has researched on the sexual and gender politics within the experimental participatory works of artist Helio Oiticica. He holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester (USA) and with an M.A. in Art History (Twentieth Century) from Goldsmiths' College, University of London (UK). He has been a professor of fine arts, art history and cultural studies in Colombia and Latin America, and has translated, edited, and published books and articles about contemporary art and culture.

Marc Siegel

(Germany) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. His research focuses on avant-garde film and queer studies. As an independent curator, he recently presented George Kuchar for the Berlin Biennial, 2010 and the co-curated the acclaimed festival ‘Live Film Jack Smith — Five Flaming Days in a Rented World' (Berlin, 2009, with Susanne Sachsse and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus). Siegel has researched on Jack Smith's legendary film Flaming Creatures (1963); an experimental film which due to its surreal, graphic depiction of sexuality, was seized by the police at its premiere, and was officially determined to be obscene by a New York Criminal Court.

Juan A. Suárez

(Spain) writes mostly about experimental cinema and contemporary art. He is currently at work on a book on the 1960s underground, queerness, and material culture, and has recently curated film programs for the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Tate Modern, or LA-MOCA, among other institutions. He is the author of the books ‘Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars' (Indiana UP), ‘Jim Jarmusch' (U of Illinois Press) and ‘Pop Modernism' (U of Illinois Press), and of numerous articles in Spanish and English for journals (Grey Room, ExitBook, and GLQ, among others) and anthologies.

Susan Stryker

(USA) is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). She won an Emmy Award for her documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005), about a transgender riot against police oppression in San Francisco in 1966. She is currently working on a new project, Christine in the Cutting Room, a feature-length experimental film about 1950s transsexual celebrity Christine Jorgensen.

Ming Wong

(Singapore) is an artist based in Berlin. His work explores the shifting nature of identity and belonging across cultures through performance and cinema. His complex interweaving of “poor imitation”, melodrama, ethnicity, gender and language speak to an “outsider's view on the mechanism of managerial tactics as applied to identity politics”. Wong's solo-exhibition representing Singapore at the 53ed Venice Biennalle was awarded an honorable mention. His work has been shown a.o. the Sydney and Gwangju Biennials.