Southern Conceptualisms Network
Southern conceptualisms is an international platform for thought, research and collective positioning. The network was founded towards the end of 2007 by an international group of concerned researchers who felt the need to intervene politically in the processes being used to neutralize the critical potential of a series of conceptual practices that had been taking place in Latin America since the 1960s.
The association between Southern Conceptualisms and Museo Reina Sofía seeks to challenge the predominant circuits of cultural production, from south to north, and replace them with horizontal itineraries, which include south-south movement between archives, museums, researchers, artists and anomalous institutions, all on an equal basis. This shared project aims to transform traditional museum policies and integrate network-based practices and decision-making into the institution's core, thus enhancing the archival potential of the Collection and generating a new form of shared legitimacy in cultural production and historical narration.
Texts
Southern Conceptualisms and Museo Reina Sofía
Type of text: Manifesto
Date of publication: February 2009
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Museo Reina Sofía aims to question the dynamic of fragmentation and dispersion affecting the material and immaterial legacy of the poetic and political practices that began to arise in Latin America in the 1960s. It also hopes to imagine and set in motion a series of decolonial practices and more horizontal logics of shared knowledge production, as opposed to the conventional model of acquisition and displacement of Latin American documentary patrimony to central countries.
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Southern Conceptualisms. Founding manifesto
Type of text: Manifesto
Date of publication: March 2009
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The network Southern Conceptualisms is conscious that museums, collectors and public and private art institutions that take part in the international system of contemporary art are engaged in a serious dispute regarding the visibility, pertinence and management of artistic legacies and political experiences. It is therefore by no means gratuitous that we are witnessing a process of institutionalisation, canonisation of archives, documents […].
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Joint projects
Southern Conceptualisms and Museo Reina Sofía
Archive of archives
Type of project: Website
Date of creation: Second semester of 2012
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A web platform that is both an organisational tool for the community of researchers and also a large inter-institutional digital archive to which different institutions and archives in Europe and Latin America will add part of their collection. By doing so they are not only putting it at the service of a decentralized audience, but also giving shape to a forum for critical commentary and debate that reactivates the original potential of the documents and makes use of the possibilities of discussion, interrelations and Internet circulation.
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![image of Desinventario [Disinventory]](http://www.museoreinasofia.es/redes/conceptualismos-del-sur/imagen-6conceptualismos-desinventario280.jpg)
Desinventario [Disinventory]
Type of activity: Publication
Date: First semester of 2012
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Desinventario [Disinventory] is an institutional analysis project that revolves around the archive that Graciela Carnevale (Rosario, Argentina) has been compiling for decades in relation to the documentation materials of the historic artistic-political project Tucumán Arde (1968). The monographic work includes a study of the forms of critical and exhibition-oriented visibilisation that have been adopted with regard to the archive materials, or to which they have been subjected, from their origins up to the present.
It also includes the reproduction of a significant amount of the archive.
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