El Mal Salvaje & La Sociedad de los Perros

The Bad Savage & The Society of Dogs
Artistic-paleolithical duo that operates within the trans-migrational boundaries of Latin America, their exploration aims to sharpen insignificant and ocluded junctions between the return of the (neo)avant- garde, political theory, high decolonial critique, cultural antropology and radical poetic exercises in Latin America and in the rest of this badly distributed Pangaea.

Their field of operation moves between critical theory, exhibitions, and artistic practices. Recent projects include the coordination of Paraísos Perdidos, esta inmensa burrada, their first curatorial essay, exhibited in La Miscelánea (Mexico City, May 2011) and later adapted to Galeria 904 (Mérida, México, June 2011). Currently they are working on the publication of Paraísos Perdidos.

The commissary sent to coordinate the Great Enciclopedia of Mules. Second Edition- On Indigence and
other beasts is componed of the following:

Andrés Jurado
Visual Artist. Profesor in the Department of Visual Arts of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Colombia and in the Faculty of Arts ASAB of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.
Realized his studies in the Universidad de Caldas // Realized a specialization in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in the school of Cinema and Television (area of Art and New Technologies).
Andrés has given workshops and conferences in a variety of universities, as well as other cultural and eduational institutions. He has been a professor in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Universidad Jorge Tateo Lozano. Andrés has participated in different audiovisual projects as art director and director of photography. Currently he is studying a Masters in Visual Arts in the UNAM- Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Academia de San Carlos and a Masters in Critical Theory, in the esthetics of thought, in the Instituto 17, both in México, DF. He participated in the seminar Zonas de Disturbio in the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MuAC). His art work has been shown in festivals and exhibitions such as EMAF, European Media Arts Film Festival, Experimenta Colombia, Artónica, Asimetría (Perú), Festival Internacional Cervantino (México), Hexadic 6x6 (Grecia), among others.

Julio García Murillo
Theorist, curator and artist. Holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy (ULSA). Currently he is pursuing a Masters in Art History (UNAM). He has also studied in the Academia de San Carlos, in the Museo de Arte Moderno, and has participated in the seminar Zonas de Disturbio in the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MuAC), where he has also realized projects that seek to further criticism and education. Recently he curated the exhibition Taxinomia ex Fabula in Centro Cultural Border (Mexico City, May 2011). Some of the projects and exhibitions in which Julio has participated include Gramática absoluta: ¡exiliemos a los poetas! exhibited in Galería Studio Cerrillo (San Cristóbal de las Casas, México, 2010). Julio recently participated in the Johannesburg Workshop on Theory and Criticism, held at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2011).

Curatoría Forense is a team dedicated to contemporary art coordinated by Jorge Sepúlveda T. and Ilze Petroni

Jorge Sepúlveda T. Independent Curator and art critic. He has conducted and advised more than 25 collective and individual exhibitions of contemporary artists from South America. His articles and other texts on contemporary art are available at www.curatoriaforense.net. He has given conferences and written publications on contemporary art, the art circuit, public cultural foundations, and artistic and social imaginary in the context of a variety of mediums including Documenta 12 Magazine, Salon Kritik, Artenlinea, ArteyCritica, and Revista Plus.

Ilze Petroni Researcher in Audiovisual Art. She is the recipient of a fellowship from Conicet and has taught three seminars in the Escuela de Ciencias de la Information of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). She formed part of a team of researchers dedicated to issues in current Argentine cinema and as a part of this research group she published three books relating to these issues. She currently participates in the program “Patrimonia Audiovisual, acceso a la información e historia reciente” (“Audiovisual Patrimony, access to information and recent history”). She has taken part in a variety of academic encounters on the national and international level. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis for her Doctorate in Art from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (UNC).

Sala de Exposiciones ASAB

Gustavo Sanabria. He holds an undergraduate degree in Visual Art from the Universidad Nacional of Colombia and a Masters in Art from the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá. He teaches in the Facultad de Artes ASAB, Universidad Distrital, and is the director of the Exhibition Space of the ASAB.