Instituto In Rio de Janiero

A performance together with Brazillian sound Artist Paolo Vivaqua and Brooklyn's Pete Vogel happenend at the beginning of August '07. The results of this will be posted soon.

Daniel Lopez Show

June1-30, 2007,
Whitebox and Roebling Hall galleries - 26th Street, Chelsea, New York City.

This is a group show of 18 artist born in Chile, some living still there and some living in New York. Curated by Mario Navarro (Iván's big brother) with Rodrigo Vergara from Hoffmann's House and Iván himself as "producers".

The show happens simultaneously in two gallery spaces of 26th street in Chelsea, one non-profit, Whitebox, and one commercial, Roebling Hall. We presented a remix of the europe tour output:

DANIEL LOPEZ STATEMENT

Instituto Divorciado is an independent art enterprise started by Iván Navarro, Ian Szydlowski and Diego Fernandez in Brooklyn 2005. Our purpose is to create and circulate artworks where the issue of authorship is discussed through collaboration, in projects that have a continuous development. Instituto Divorciado aims to be a total art enterprise, embracing all aspects of the planning, production, design and collection of art works, their venues and publications.
Until our participation in Daniel Lopez Show, curated by Mario Navarro in two galleries of the Chelsea District of New York we had produced one group show in Germany and participated in two group shows, in Belgium and Holland.
For Daniel Lopez Show, as a way to extend their meanings and range, we have mixed the outputs of two recent appearances: taking the movie “Acronym Fever: Portrait of an Artist” from what we did at De Appel, in Amsterdam, and the minitheater box “Scheissebôite” from what we did at De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium. We've changed the proportions and surface of the box, its animated content, the pattern of the found photocopied material outside, adding also some paint to it to make it resemble a flag-wrapped coffin.
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Tributo a Pentagram : Music Presentation

May 2007,
Instituto Divorciado and Hueso Records presents a re-mix project of the legendary black metal chilean band Pentagram, listen to the tracks created by 12 musicians in all styles.
Download will be available soon
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HOMEMADE

Thursday, April 19th, 2007,
Curated by Paz Aburto Guevara, at De Warande Cultural Center, Turnhout, Belgium, simultaneously with the Open Doek Film Festival.

Our original proposal consisted of a full-room installation, a mock office for ID, where we would receive visits from invited artists and naturally interact with the public, offering improvised talks and tours and, eventually, some sort of “divorce assistance”. We are set to produce a piece that intermixes our own artistic output (objects, paintings, graphics and other commodities) with our social and performative skills and the presentation of other artists, local or not, in full interaction with the surroundings of the film festival. The final result, "Scheisse Boite" consists of a video featuring complicated marionette maneuvering. The video is shown inside a box that resembles a mini movie theater and it's covered with photocopies of ID's collection of visual debris. During opening night we will also launch the CD compilation TRIBUTO A PENTAGRAM, produced by Claudio Fernandez Sini and Jorge Cabieses for Hueso Records in collaboration with ID.
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THE GO-BETWEEN

April 11-22, 2007,
Curated by the 6 curators of the 2007 Curatorial Training Program of De Appel, Amsterdam.
A series of experimental art projects developing during a span of 10 days at De Bjilmer, a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Amsterdam. Instituto Divorciado will present "Acronym Fever: San Lorenzo's Holocoaster", a project that includes a video presentation (Sunday April 22nd) and an open communal feast (two lambs roasted on a bicycle powered spiedo) to take place between noon and midnight of Saturday April 21st. Also, as part of the final event of The Go Between, Instituto Divorciado will perform live music on Sunday 22nd.
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Instituto Divorciado takes full responsibility for Pinochet's death: Voodoo Art

Sunday, December 10th, 2006,
We did it, please review all supporting evidence at the following video - installing the work of Brazilian/NY artist, Karin Schneider. Never underestimate art or the Instituto to bring down your "bad" dictator, thanks everyone involved!
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Contragolpe en la Moneda: Video Presentation

Saturday, November 4th, 2006 at 18.00hrs,
Instituto Divorciado is invited by KW curator Paz Aburto Guevarra to present the videos from the September Berlin Art Show - Contragolpe:Reenacting a Failed Operation in the Cultural Center located in the Chilean Presidential Palace, la Moneda.
Centro de Documentación de las Artes Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Plaza de la Ciudadanía 26,
Santiago de Chile.
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Contragolpe: Reenacting a failed operation

View our website related to our September show in the Stalin Bauten Building in Berlin. Includes photos and complete archives of the 4 day show.
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