Musagetes and CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area are pleased to announce that Pablo Helguera will be speaking as part of the Big Ideas in Art & Culture Lecture Series. 

Pablo Helguera will discuss his socially engaged artistic projects such as The School of Panamerican Unrest (www.panamericanismo.org), a nomadic think-tank that generated connections between the different regions of the Americas through discussions, performances, screenings, and short-term and long-term collaborations between organizations and individuals. This hybrid project included a mobile schoolhouse and a video archive, which crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. Covering almost 20,000 miles, it is considered one of the most extensive public art projects on record.

Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. His work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. His work as an educator intersects with his interests as an artist, and integrates issues of interpretation, dialogue, and the role of contemporary culture in a global reality. Since 2007, he is Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. To find out more about Pablo Helguera, visit www.pablohelguera.net.

Image: Pablo Helguera, Recording Parallel Lives, Guggenheim Museum, 2003. Image courtesy the artist.

For more information call Danica at 519 836 7300 x 103 or visit or musagetes.ca