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Assorted curatorial projects, collaborations
and writing of Joseph del Pesco

1. Recent Projects
2. Public Space
3. Exhibitions & Screenings
3. Writing
4. Publishing
5. Online Projects
6. Experimental Funding

Apophenia, Interruptions at Centre Pompidou, Paris (a collaboration with KADIST) Co-curated by Marcella Lista and del Pesco.
September 25, 2024–January 6, 2025
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(Somewhere between) The Wind and the Dove, was a presentation during the LOOP festival, Barcelona, November 2024. For 10 days, del Pesco brought together 2 moving-image works: a feature length video artwork with a short film, presented within the layered interior space of the Fundació Enric Miralles. The artwork by Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis (UK/US), and the film by Xavier Marrades (Catalunya) remind us of timeless subjects, altered modes of attention, care and memorial. Each work, in different ways, establishes a rapport with EMBT and the Fundació Enric Miralles—a relationship being the very core of the foundation. The Fundació Enric Miralles is a love letter from Italian born architect Benedetta Tagliabue to her late partner (personal and professional) Enric Miralles. Both works also speak to the organic architectural motifs of EMBT, that evoke the forms and flow of the natural environment—for example the use of tangent curves that meander like a river, gather like clouds, or spiral like a shell.

A new vinyl album Terp Interrupted, by Christine Sun Kim, 2024, co-curated by Sergio Edelsztein and del Pesco. del Pesco also wrote an essay that appears on the record sleeve.

Published by editiones inauditas and nbk, Berlin.
video of the record release event at Printed Matter, NYC.

del Pesco organized two commissions within the exhibition A stubborn man and a hermit walk into a bar, taking place at the house and studio of Conlon Nancarrow in Mexico City, designed by Juan O’Gorman in 1950. Situated in Nancarrow's studio, both projects evoked the legacy of experimental music and improvisation in this iconic house; Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis produced a new video, and collaborated with composer Dario Acuña on a live performance, and Carolina Fusilier and Miko Revereza collaborated on a short video and 4-channel sound installation. With PEANA CDMX, February 6 until March 3, 2024.

Text about the projects
ArtNews "5 shows to see in Mexico City"
A Storm in Ten Parts, by Clayton and Lewis

Einfühlung by Piotr Szyhalski

A year-long project, featuring a new series of drawings by Piotr Szyhalski that will appear (two at a time) in a one-meter-square lightbox on Bouwmeestersstraat in Gent, Belgium. The project, which began spring 2023, is co-curated by Joseph del Pesco and Boutique Vizique.

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Michael Rakowitz, Behemoth II, 2024

Commissioned by del Pesco and Jo-ey Tang for KADIST and AMP in collaboration with Dreaming in Public. Presented in San Francisco and Seattle. Also appearing in the Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions exhibition at the Blaffer Museum, Houston TX.

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The Rhythm of Return, a short text about artist Enrique Ramirez in the French online publication ElaineAlain. Co-authored with artist Enar de Dios Rodríguez.
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Machine Yearning [Máquina Deseante] was a weekend-long survey of personal investigations and critical perspectives on generative AI by an international group of artists. The weekend began at the Museo Tamayo on February 9th (2024) with a screening program and talk by Manuel DeLanda. Co-curated by del Pesco, Doreen Rios and Brett Schultz.

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