The Chill Concept @ Hardcore Art Contemporary Space as Contemporary Art
Today’s contemporary practices enter a new phase with creative creator, Nina Fuentes’ unmatched energy and dedication on taking the lead of THE CHILL CONCEPT brand. By producing, curating and developing a diversity of projects for contemporary practices in our space, she aspires to attain the trust and confidence of our followers and partners. We wish Nina the best with her new personal curatorial project. It’s a pleasure to see one of our own develop and grow and remain delighted to have her as our chairman.
Rochi LLaneza
Executive Director
HACS
The Chill Concept a Contemporary Art Practice
Changing Rules in Today’s World.
Many things in the world have not been named or described yet; one of these is THE CHILL CONCEPT.
We can begin therefore, with a mere description of the facts that provide evidence of change (wellness, innovation and contemporary culture), and focus all our attention on the emergence of the new.
Viewed from this perspective, we have before us an uncertain panorama of a new circuit for organizing art. Among its elements are new channels of distribution (biennials, on-site events, art fairs); new dynamics of artistic training outside the academic system (workshops, residences, seminars); different ways of organizing production (collectives and social networks as Facebook, twitter and linkedin); and new information and publishing medias (online and through networks).
In Contemporary Art practices “an artist” become a part of an economic system as communities are brought together by a particular event or a common interest, whether it be enjoy moment to moment happiness as THE CHILL CONCEPT proposes by connecting ourselves in the experience of drinking a cup of tea or coffee, sharing food, having a massage, book crossing, social spa-ing , tasting new products, chatting at the space, watching videos, reading magazines, or listening to music.
There is talk of an art that values a state of joy, and the possibility of sharing it at a site-specific utopia-specific place, to be precise Hardcore Art Contemporary Space where is has been realized centered on the dynamics of change.
We believe contemporary art practices will reinforce alternative life systems; in our own life practice, intact or modified which survives every attempt to control it. Free from structures, in order to live on to pursuit of the moment- to-moment happiness. Reunite art and life.
The Chill Concept as a contemporary art practice creates a time of communal living, discussing joint projects, searching for ideas, exchanging insight about wellbeing, innovation and culture. The Chill Concept @ Hardcore Art Contemporary Space plays a crucial part of redesigning the urban dynamic during this time of crisis. It shifts epicenters that have been traditionally connected to the Wynwood Art District gallery circuit. A new space, the gathering spot along the city’s new routes demonstrates that art markets can become more dynamic.
Faced with the question of what the connection might now be between art, wellness, innovation and contemporary culture in the pursuit of moment-to-moment happiness for each of us-the fact that new institutionalization of art is more flexible and more mobile –and intervenes in the processes of urban transformation of our community. Just because the language of contemporary art derives from homogeneous economic strategies covering every part of the world, The Chill Concept is a contemporary art practice to Love, Live ,Enjoy and chill with us ….your place.
Welcome!
Nina Fuentes
Contemporary Art practice
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Contemporary art practices are informed by the following issues
Widespread realization of the gap between the optimistic ideas of modernity and the contemporary reality of acid rain, AIDS, nuclear pollution and urban decay. Little faith in progress, science and dogma that “new is best” (study of museums- museology)
Globalization, multiplicity of meanings and cultures
Breakdown of traditional categories and materials: notion of process not product
Hollowness of modernist authority e.g the romantic privilege of genius understanding that the artist or author cannot be the sole arbiter or originator of meaning recognition of roles played by audience, culture and context.
Fusion of the artificial and real and of electronic space and virtuality
Understanding and recognition of the inevitable integration of economics and art.
Integration of philosophy and art
Postmodernist methods of awareness of appropriation and deconstruction recontextualisation, semiotics and discourse
Dichotomy of Abject and the Aesthetic
Body as a social text or representation as an irrevocably mediated activity (e.g. the phases of the Madonna pop star reinvention of self)
Fallacy of avant-garde at the cutting edge; avant-garde as necessarily subversive of established cultural orders.
Characteristics of Contemporary art practice:
changes to accepted tradition and accepted taste
understanding of a multiplicity of viewpoints
issues and ideas about the role of object in space and relationships between objects
use of everyday materials
imagery of iconographs from popular consumer culture
employment of contemporary technology.
In 2000, the main art forms are sculpture, installation, environmental art forms, computer generated forms, painting, performance.
Avant-garde influences included Minimalism, Pop Art, Art Povera, Post Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Dada. Key artists include Duchamp, Beuys & Fluxus artists.
Museology
The study of the power of the institutions such as museums, galleries and libraries is a feature of the contemporary period. Curators, critics and historians are perceived as taking part in controlling art markets and cultural values. Artists have reacted against this in attempting to de-commodify the art market by creating works that cannot be bought and sold such as temporary, interactive, process only and conceptual works.
International exhibitions
Intrinsic to contemporary art practices is the interchange of ideas through international exhibitions. Contemporary art is diverse in ideas, approaches, contexts, and historical backgrounds, creating new and changing relationships between the agents of the art world.
Globalisation has seen the breakdown of boundaries between regions and it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the world of artists from USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. There is a dissolution of differences between some regions with artworks exhibiting an international flavour e.g. world survey exhibitions such as Documenta, Kassel, Venice Biennale, Australia Pacific Triennale, Sydney Biennale.
New practices involved interdisciplinary approaches involving visual elements, music, popular culture and new technology.
Also issues which have dominated western discourses are playing an increasingly important role in both public debate This has been revealed in culturally specific and idiosyncratic forms with environmental and gender issues becoming part of a broader social conscience. Some issues that have been raised are human aspirations, democracy, religion and spirituality, the place of women, the divide between rich and poor, tradition, globalisation, indigenity, marginalisation, and hybridisation, artists reclaiming identity through culture, and dynamism, constraints and inequalities of cultural interaction, fracturing of cultures and lives through human and natural catastrophes.
References
Asia Pacific Triennial Catalogues 1, 2 & 3
Biennale catalogues
Michelle Watts, Visual arts teacher