artfest.campogarzon.comCAMPO Artfest | Un dia de festival + 30 artistas interviniendo Pueblo

Garzon Home 2023 (EN) EN | ES A THREE-DAY FESTIVAL WHERE ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD REIMAGINE PUEBLO GARZÓN The word radical comes from the Latin word radicalis which literally means of or relating to a root.” In the English language, it first came to describe the basics or fundamentals of something. Later it progressed to mean something different from usual or to describe a person who was looking to make extreme changes.” – Merriam Webster Welcome to our seventh CAMPO Artfest, an annual celebration of Creativity, Community + Connection. This year feels as expansive as ever with the additions of a third day, a Film Forum of short documentaries and a rocking Sound Sessions. We’re excited to introduce you to an inspired group of artists from near and far, invited to Garzon to create site-specific work around the theme RADICAL NATURE: The Roots of Land + Water. In the months leading up to the festival, through online meetups with guest speakers imparting their wisdom, the participating artists bonded over exploring the environment through an ancestral lens, creating transatlantic conversations and collaborations. RADICAL NATURE invokes a reconnection with the wisdom of the ancestors, past civilizations and cultures who lived harmoniously and sustainably with nature, embodying a reciprocity that has been severed and is seeking to be restored. This CAMPO Artfest cohort dug deep into their roots, and wondrously connected, creating an ecosystem, like a living organizing of individual works that correspond and converse, and hopefully inspire a deeper reflection. Allow yourself at least three hours to take in the festival, meandering through the pueblo streets, to and from the train station (about 1km from the village plaza), all the way to the river this year. Be sure to fuel up at CAMPO Canteen for a sandwich and iced coffee, and check out the exhibition of participating artists’ smaller works for sale. 28 December 16:00 – 20:00 Open to the public 16:30 – 19:30 Film Forum at The Social Club 17:00 – 19:00 Kids’ Ceramic + Natural Print Workshop by Sofia Sibrú on the Plaza 17:30 Theatrical Performance from Teatro Breve: Manual Para Carta de Amor by Rafael Beltrán 18:15 Sound Sessions: Alfonsina 19:00 Hugo Fattoruso at the Train Station 20:00 CAMPO Benefit Dinner 29 December 13:00 – 19:00 Open to the public 13:00 – 19:00 Asado by A Poncho y Espuela en la Plaza 14:00 – 18:00 Film Forum at The Social Club 13:00 – 19:00 Ruta de Arte Garzón Gallery Walk (Black Gallery, La Galerilla, Piero Atchugarry Gallery , Walden Naturae) 15:30 – 16:30 Meet the Artists of CAMPO Artfest 2023 at CAMPO Canteen 16:00 – 18:00 Kids’ Painting Workshop by Guillermina Banfi on the Plaza 17:00 Magma Futura presenta a Flipando.ai: IA, Naturaleza y Arte: Descubriendo un Futuro Creativo y Sostenible en CAMPO Canteen 17:00 Black Gallery: Conversatorio Artista-Curadora Tea party con Francesa Molinari + Joanne Cattarossi 18:00 Sound Sessions: Lola Cobach 18:30 Sound Sessions: Paul Higgs 19:00-21:00 Ruta de Arte Gallery Walk (José Ignacio, La Barra, Manantiales) 30 December 13:00 – 19:00 Open to the public 14:00 – 18:00 Film Forum at The Social Club 14:00 – 18:00 Photographic Development Mobile Lab Workshop by Artista Fede Ruiz Santesteban 16:00-18:00 Live Carving Demonstration with Artist Mauro Arbiza en Galeria Garzón 17:00 Nature IMMERSION (walk) with Ana Amorin 18:00 Sound Sessions: Sr Faraón 18:30 Sound Sessions: Tambores December 28 20:00 Pueblo Garzon After touring the 20+ site-specific installations around the pueblo, please join us and the CAMPO Artfest artists for our annual benefit dinner. Recent James Beard nominee Michael Diaz de Leon, whose restaurant BRUTØ in Denver just earned a Michelin Star, will guest chef this year, promising another unforgettable night under the stars celebrating the participating festival artists. In step with CAMPO’s mission of fostering creative exchange, Michael will be assisted by a creative crew of chefs from around Uruguay. Tickets and tables to this one-of-kind dinner help support our nonprofit organization, artists-as-changemakers, our local school program Garzon en Focus, and building a global creative community whose mission is steeped in connection, contemplation and conversation. GET YOUR TICKETS AND TABLES TO SUPPORT CAMPO TODAY BUY NOW! About Chef Michael Diaz de Leon Michael is a first generation Mexican American, born in El Paso, Texas. He leads BRUTØ in Denver, CO, an 18-seat chef counter, offering an omakase tasting menu that features seasonal ingredients grown and found around Latin America, Mexico, Texas, and Colorado, which encourages little-to-no waste. Diaz de Leon was awarded the San Pellegrino Star Chefs Game Changer Award in 2022 and was a James Beard Foundation Award finalist for Best Chef: Mountain in 2023. Last month, BRUTØ earned one Michelin star, as well as green stars for excellence in sustainability. Leticia Almeida UY Guadalupe Ayala UY Fons De Muynck BE|UY Cara Despain US Hugo Fattoruso UY Agustina Fernandez Raggio UY Florencia Flanagan UY Alejandra González Soca UY Lorena Guillén Vaschetti AR|UY Andreas Grenier DE Diego Haretche UY Nicolás Janowski AR Adam Jeppeson DK|UY Jimena Kato PE Daniela Medina Poch CO Diego Miró Rivera US Naveed Mulki IN Marco Noris IT Luna Paiva AR|SP Monica Perez UY|US Christian Salablanca Díaz CR Rafiki Sanchez MX Jessica Segall US Gihan Tubbeh PE INSIDE OUT RADICAL NATURE: The Roots of Land + Water Dario Invernizzi CREATIVE DIRECTOR Director of the Invernizzi Laboratory and Studio in Montevideo, Dario is also co-founder of Análoga, specializing in the research of historical photographic processes. He is a master printer and artistic producer with a degree from the National School of Fine Arts (UDELAR / R.O.U). He has headed the production team for CAMPO Artfest since its launch in 2017, and, this year, as Creative Director, has expanded the festival’s vision working alongside each participating artist. Patricia Bentancur CURATOR-AT-LARGE Patricia Bentancur is an independent curator. She lives between Uruguay and France. She has developed research projects such as Art Dishonor and Violence, together with Luis Camnitzer; Archive/Clemente Padin; Gender Issues in Latin America, together with Ana Tiscornia. Curator of the Venice Biennale, she is currently Curator at-large for institutions in Uruguay and abroad. For this edition of CAMPO Artfest, she curated the CAMPO AIR December artist-in-residence cohort. BANG BANG! SAPIENS by Patricia Bentancur This edition of CAMPO Artfest focuses on the interconnection between practices of visual culture and the emergence of environmental issues. Nature, water, and land; the origins and restitution of subaltern knowledge. Ancestral wisdom, present excesses, and ignorances are part of the spectrum that will be exposed through visual practices this time. All the artists participating in this CAMPO Artfest form a horizontal and interdisciplinary work team in an experience of exchanges and mutual learning. It’s a process where ideas, methodologies, and complementary knowledge are shared. The five artists who are in residence during the month of December contribute to the diversity of their cultures, origins, and knowledge based on their practice processes. Collectively, they build a panorama that includes the recording of these issues and the consequences of a nature radicalized by extractivism and the speculative arrogance of a radical Capitalocene. It’s a crisis of hyper-consumption that disproportionately affects communities in the so-called Global South. From a situationist practice, Marco Noris helps us to complexify our perception of the environment we inhabit and the value of the time we spend in nature and within an integrated community. He formalizes his extensive walks, which form the basis of his work, using various tools such as cartography, maps, drawings, paintings, and memory. Rafiki Sánchez works from ancestral knowledge and...