Each artist has enthusiastically confronted the spatial conditions and the difficulties posed by the conceptual theme, realizing wonderful projects that linger in our retinas and reverberate in our minds. To begin, the duo of Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer and the Colombian Colectivo Maski independently investigated the concept of indoctrination through the metaphor of language and urban planning. Later came Alia Farid—of Kuwaiti and Puerto Rican origin—who decided to undertake a fascinating investigation into architectural modes of control and the way ideology can be implemented through architecture without exercising control. We continued with the project of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander, which was essential for the Education Project at NC-arte and for the institution to embrace what we have been calling “pedagogical curation”: the establishment of pedagogy and its issues as the backbone of each artist’s project. The year came to a close with an offering from the Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, who, braving the climate and the turbulence of this year, laid out an extraordinary project about the ancestral knowledge of pre-Columbian cultures from this region. By following various leads in the search for knowledge, we have understood 2018 to be a year to allow ourselves to see from another perspective and to reveal strategies of indoctrination that even we could not perceive. Likewise, we have been able to host the third edition of NC-LAB by inviting workshop leaders and observers from different parts of the world who disembarked in Bogotá for a week so that they could share intensive and enriching workshops, discussions, reflections, and predicaments.
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Every day we learn not only from these artistic and pedagogic processes but also from the constant contributions of the participants, for which I would like to thank all of the artists, educators, curators, investigators, and professors who have contributed to making the 2018 NC-arte program possible. Finally, I would like to thank the NC-arte team for their persistence and the unflagging kindness they employ every day at work, even during the most difficult times. Tamara Zukierbraum, Felipe Uribe, Laura Gamboa, Caridad Botella, Yuly Riaño, Tatiana Benavides, Juan Sebastián Bernal, thank you. Your vibrant energy allows a small team to produce programs with immense impact. To our collaborators and interns who involved themselves and helped us with everything: Felipe López; Ana Luz, from the Master’s in Curation from Universidad de Coímbra, Portugal; Nataly Valencia and Laura Alejandra Valbuena from Universidad El Bosque; Vanessa Vivas and Juan Camilo Ramírez from EAN; and Anna Consuegra from Colegio Helvetia. Also, to the researchers in residence from the program we founded with Universidad de los Andes, Luisa Pacheco y Paolo Alexander Merchán, thank you for your research. Thanks, of course, to the public and the students who visit us, who take over the space and make it theirs. NC-arte is an initiative that relies on the support of the Neme Foundation and other entities and people who make a large economic sacrifice every year to see an ambitious, critical, and innovative program come to fruition. Thank you very much for joining us in this effort with confidence and kindness.
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exhibition projects and their close connection to the Education Project, as well as of the Education Project’s numerous autonomous programs.