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SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes

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SITE Santa Fe Introduces

A new biennial exhibition series that explores contemporary art from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego
July 20, 2014 – January 2015
Opening Festivities July 17-19

Opened in 1995 to present what was then the only international contemporary art biennial in the United States, SITE Santa Fe was born at a time when there were only a handful of biennials in the world. From the very beginning, SITE established a commitment to its risk-taking and visionary perspective that continues to inform our program today. Acknowledging the changing landscape of the contemporary art world since SITE’s founding, and the proliferation of biennial exhibitions in the last decade, in the summer of 2011, we announced that we were exploring a new model for SITE’s Biennial. We suspended the exhibition for a cycle to examine the history of our signature show and its role in the ever-expanding global contemporary art context and develop a new biennial exhibition structure for the future. After presenting over 75 exhibitions—including eight Biennials—of works by over 500 international artists, our new plans reaffirm SITE’s place at the vanguard of contemporary art, serving as a vital nexus for contemporary art discourse, while at the same time becoming more relevant and connected to our local community. In the fall of 2012, we convened a gathering of expert curators from all over the Americas for a roundtable discussion about SITE ’s Biennial and discussed ideas around re-conceiving SITE’s signature exhibition to focus on the Western Hemisphere. These advisors represented two generations and perspectives that included artists, educators, and curators, with a range of cultural backgrounds including Native American and Latin American. After two years of research and a thoughtful reconsideration of SITE’s signature international Biennial, in 2014 we will launch a reimagined biennial exhibition series titled SITElines with a new focus on contemporary art from the Americas. In many ways, Santa Fe itself is a fusion of the Americas. Many layers of history and culture are embedded in the land in Santa Fe and visible in our present-day population. First Native American land, then a Spanish Kingdom, a Mexican Province, and an American Territory, all before statehood, New Mexico is a rich microcosm of the Americas. SITE Santa Fe is uniquely situated, literally and metaphorically, to explore the territory of the Americas—it is a direction that is both timely and specific to SITE’s vision, place, and history. In July 2014, SITElines becomes a dynamic new part of SITE’s year-round exhibition programming as our new signature biennial show. SITElines.2014: Unsettled Landscapes This show will look to the urgencies, political conditions, and historical narratives that inform the work of contemporary artists across North, Central and South America. Through three themes — landscape, territory and trade — the exhibition will illuminate the connections among representationsof the land, movement across the land, and economies and resources derived from the land. Further information on sitelines.2014 will be announced throughout 2013 and 2014.

The SITElines2014 curatorial team
Candice Hopkins, curator (b. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; lives in Ottawa and Albuquerque)
Lucia Sanroman, curator (b. Guadalajara, Mexico; lives in Boston and Mexico City)
Janet Dees, curator of special projects (b. New York; lives in Santa Fe)
Irene Hofmann, SITElines director (b. New York; lives in Santa Fe)

UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES ARTISTS

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SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes

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UNSETTLED LANDSCAPES ARTISTS

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