Art Projects
Selected Art Projects
Quarentena
Quarentena Galería is a project developed by a group of artists and academics of the Visual Arts in Chile and Mexico that was born in response to the absence of formal exhibition spaces in times of pandemic. It is a virtual space to promote the visual arts and present reflections of important artists from around the world.
Director: Rodrigo Torres Barriga (Chile) Visual Artist and Academic of the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
Curators:
Ale Feijó (Argentina)
Sandeep Biswas (India)
Álvaro Sánchez (Guatemala)
Juan Francisco García (Mexico)
Rodrigo Torres Barriga (Chile )
The night of broken glasses
Is a project that was carried out between Alfredo Castro, artist and Olle Salmonsson, gallerist owner of gallery Oss and architect and designer, in Umeå as a way to draw attention to the events that took place in Germany in 1933 on November 10th when the Nazis vandalized Jewish property in Germany and Austria and which is regarded as the beginning of the Holocaust.
Moll -
School Stage Project with the collaboration of Peter Ohlsson. Moll's writer was Peter Kihlgård. Arne Berggren was the theater director with Peter Ohlsson and myself. Set designer with assistance from young schoolchildren. The play was presented in the large theater hall in Folkets.
Ice Sculptures - Central Umeä.
Castro and Jari Aalto design
Post 9/11
A project that problematized the 9/11 events. In the project, adult professionals, political sufferers for the various parties and artists, etc. were mixed with school youth. These problematizations were expressed in images and texts.
participating were:
Hans Anders MolinLars SahlinGoran SonessonMaya EizinGustavo Aguerre, Fa+Moon's WrangeCarin CarlssonMikael WieheGert Z NordströmGisele SchinkPontus HultqvistStephen FruitmanMohammad FazlhashemiHans T SternuddThomas BreitensteinMats CaldeborgAnna Lena LundmarkCinema NearAnders MattssonKristian OlssonUlrika KörnborgKG NilssonPaulina SokolowArne KockumAnders MarnerGudrun SchymanBruno K ÖijerBodil Marie ThomsenLinus SällströmAlf SvenssonJan Erik LundströmCrister LövgrenSchool studentsA Castro, medverkande och idegivare.Titeln. Umé Global. 2002.www.umea.se/umegloka
The shower
Is a project that CasmoInfo carried out at the end of the 90s and whose principal motive were to problematize the complicated issue of nationalism versus cosmopolitanism's trending thoughts. The artist painted their bodies in colours of different flags and subsequently showered their bodies off to signify that we all belong to the human race independently of our nationality.
The contagion
This was a digital project that we, at CasmoInfo carried out in the mid-90s and which was sent to various individuals, institutions, newspapers and magazines to draw attention to the risk of being infected by viruses in the digital world.
The motivation for this project were texts by the Swedish cultural semiotician, Göran Sonesson active in the city of Lund, who problematizes the digital world.
Smitta Project, Outbreak. Malmö Sweden
Is an art project initiated by Fa+, Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre in Malmö art museum.
Thematically, the project dealt with how Swedish society is infected by the extent of immigration in the city in Sweden, Malmö, to which most immigrants come.
Artists who represented the exhibition were from Sweden, Argentina, Chile and England.
Time Out
Was a street project with pictures of famous personalities in the Swedish public where the pictures were pasted on streets and squares and the reactions the audience had in relation to these individuals.
Some citizens reacted negatively and trampled the images, while others placed flowers next to the images.
The project was secretly filmed by Casmo info.
Theater Europe
Theater Europe project on buses in Sweden and Poland. Casmo Info. Castro and Hans Anders Molin
La mosca en la sopa
The words "fly in the soup" want to denote meddling, indiscretion, snooper. The meaning is to refer to someone gossipy, eloquent, nosy (messy), curious, toad. Something that does not characterize the Swedish culture which is known to be very discreet.
Casmo Info Project in Umeá
The final battle during during the commemorative procession of May 1st on Worker´s day demonstration. By Casmo Info - A Castro and Hans Anders Molin.
There were photos of Marx and Engels pasted on the streets where the procession passed and they stepped on those images. The entire event was filmed.
1994 Kombi-nacion imagen sueca
In 1989 I was invited by the Mexican artist Arnold Belkin to make an exposition of my work in Mexico City. Instead I suggested to Belkin to investigate the possibilities for making a group exibition in Mexico with Swedish artists. About a year later, än official invitation to arrange an exhibition of Swedish art arrived from the Mexican ministry of Culture and it's cultural agency INBA, ( instituto Nacional de Bellas Artens), and I was entrusted with the task of selecting the artists and writers participants in this project Combi-nacion, Swedish image.
The project was concerned with what is the Swedish, idiosyncratic mentality. As curator of this exhibition, I have chosen to provide a heterogeneous and broad spectrum of artists from the rich contemporary Swedish art world. In the time that has passed since the exhibition arrived the spirit of the times, the Zeitgeist, has been transformed. The conflict between cosmopolitanism and nationalism has become a pressing reality.
We, the organizers of this project Alfredo Castro and Hans Anders Molin, ( Casmo info) wish to extend a special thanks to the artists and writers represented and to CONACULTA, general dirección of cultural affairs of the Secretary of Foreign Relations. And it's cultural agency INBA, instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and museo Mural Diego Rivera in Mexico city.
A well as the artist Arnold Belkin and the writer Octavio Paz and as many other contributors of this big art proyect.
Alfredo Castro.
Blowing in The Wind
The project was completed in 1992 and is one of the first art projects that has been done in the internet at all.
The topic of the project was about what happens with communication in a digitized world.
The text that prompted the project was written by Göran Sonesson, a cultural semiotician from Lund, Sweden.
Participants:
Carin Carlsson
Göran Sonesson
Casmo info
Juan Castillo
Alfredo Jaar
About Postmodernism
An art project about postmodernism in Sweden in collaboration between Casmo info, Umeå University and gallery Stefan Andersson. One of the first projects about postmodernism in Sweden.
Hjärnstorm Cultural magazine design project with theme of art criticism by A. Castro. Cover made by artist Jan Hafström and a design idea by A Castro.
Project Jag- "I".
In contribution and collaboration with the writer Peter Kylgård, Humlab, technical laboratory of the university of Umeå and students of college.
Project "Normal"
What does normal or normality mean in Sweden? With Jari Aalto and college students at Umea University
