Vocation(s): A Discussion About Interdisciplinary Practice
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Osvaldo Sánchez is director of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. Between 2000 and 2001 Sánchez acted as director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo and, from 1997 to 2000, he was director of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. He has also served as art columnist for Reforma, a Mexico City newspaper, and director of the International Forum of Contemporary Art Theory. Sánchez has lectured extensively at numerous institutions, including Bard College, the Guggenheim Museum, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and University of Texas, Austin, He has written for publications such as Third Text, Grand Street, Sulfur and Art Nexus.
Omar Berrada was born and raised in Casablanca and has lived in Paris for the past 10 years. He has translated, into French, works from several English-language poets and is active in the collective Double Change. He has translated or attempted to translate, alone or in company, texts by Jennifer Moxley, Rod Mengham, Mark Ford, Lisa Jarnot, Steve McCaffery, Sarah Riggs, Kathleen Fraser, Abdessalam Ben Abdelali, Stanley Cavell, Robert Glück, Kristin Prevallet, Joan Retallack, Avital Ronell, Adrienne Rich, Forrest Gander, Marie Borel and Jalal Toufic. He has hosted shows on French national radio and curated lectures and conferences at the Pompidou Center. He was the curator of the Tangier International Book Fair in 2008. Today he runs the library and translation program at Dar Al-Ma’mûn in Marrakesh.
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Made possible, in part, with support from The Yates Art Foundation, The Linearis Institute, The Mexican Consulate of San Francisco and Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico.