09 Dec 2011

Spanish Creators in New York

Spanish Creators in New York is a section within the website of the Consulate General of Spain in New York www.spainculturenewyork.org, which consists on a series of interviews with creative professionals living in New York. These artists belong to a range of disciplines including: theater, literature, visual arts, music, dance, architecture, design and gastronomy.

Some of the most recently published interviews correspond to the writer and member of the Royal Spanish Academy, Antonio Muñoz Molina; the architect, artist, theorist and professor at Columbia University, Jorge Otero-Pailos; the conductor, pianist and professor of Spanish Literature at Fordham University Rafael Lamas; the director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Eva Franch; the actress and theater producer, Puy Navarro and the visual artist Isidro Blasco.
Previously interviews featured visual artists Antoni Muntadas, Elena del Rivero and Juan Usle, the architect Ana Maria Torres, the musicians Cristina Pato and Ricardo Llorca, the filmmaker Martin Rosete, the theater producer, Angel Gil Orrios, the chef Marc Vidal and the writer Eduardo Lago, among others.

The purpose of these dialogues with creators is to highlight their professional profiles through their experiences, their work and projects and to show through the website the activity of Spanish culture performed in the United States.

This section of interviews with creators supplements the work already being done by the Consulate General of Spain in New York, thereby strengthening its support for promoting Spanish culture and the arts and culture. Interviews are a living example of bilateral cultural relations between both countries. Through the experiences of the interviewed, this interaction shows the involvement of Spanish artists in American cultural life and their contribution to the multiculturalism of the city of New York.

Links to the interviews:

www.spainculturenewyork.org/beta/cms/spanish-creators/spanish-creators-in-ny/
Interviews by Eva Mendoza Chandas. Independent curator and cultural manager.
Master in Arts Administration from Columbia University under the auspices of a Fulbright scholarship and the Ministry of Culture of Spain. Her graduation thesis deals with the situation of Spanish artists living in New York and their relationship with the city's cultural institutions.
In 2011, she curated Region 0. The Latino Festival of Video Art New York, at the King Juan Carlos I of New York University (NYU). She is also the executive director of the project Round Trip NY and contributor to the online publication XTRART, a portal specialized in cultural promotion and reflection.
Currently she is working along with the curators Jodie Dinapoli and Paco Cano on an exhibition at the AMA, Art Museum of the Americas, in Washington, DC. The show will be featuring works by Latin American and Spanish artists living and working in New York, and will open its doors to the public in February 2012.