colectivas

Luis Molina - Pantin & Juan José Olavarría

UN PAIS CUALQUIERA.

(primera lección de história)

Taller Experimental de Curaduría

Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo

Enero / abril 2011

Fotografías: L. Molina - Pantin 

- en construcción -

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VI Salón CANTV Jóvenes con fia.
Enlaces. Las estrategias metodológicas del arte actual.
Ateneo de Caracas. 2001
http://juanjoseolavarria.blogspot.com/p/diseno-capacitado.html

Invitación.

Materiales diversos sobre madera

40 x 20 cm.

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EN LA MIRA / El Derecho a la Diferencia.

Más allá del bien y del mal

Sala RG. Fundación Celarg. Caracas.

2000

Oh! Divino Señor que estás cautivo

Instalación (detalles)

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X Premio Eugenio Mendoza.

Sala Mendoza, Caracas

2000

Performance instalada

Performance instalada (detalles) 

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CAMPEONATO DE AJEDREZ A TRES ENCUENTROS.

Eugenio Espinoza & Juan José Olavarría

Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela. 1997

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ARTISTAS EN TRANCE

Nuevas metodologías en el trabajo con el Otro

en el arte latinoamericano

Un taller experimental para arte y antropología

organizado por el Departamento de Antropología de Rice University

y la Fundación Transart de Houston

1997

ARTISTS IN TRANCE

New methogologies in the work with the Other in latin american art

An experimental workshop for art and anthropology

presented by the Departament of Anthropology at Rice University

and the Transart Foundation of Houston

Spring 1997

Ernesto Leal & Juan José Olavarría:

Discusión con Betara Desa

(Arguing with Betara Desa)

Farish Gallery. School of Architecture. Rice University. Houston Texas. USA.

1997

El distrito de mi presencia

Instalación

El distrito de mi presencia. (detalles)

Entretenimiento para grupos

Instalación

Entretenimiento para grupos (detalle)

Un viaje a Bali

Los hermanos Allen explorando la frontera

Instalación

Los hemanos Allen explorando la frontera (detalles)

Concurso para cocineros

Instalación

Un altar a Betara Desa

Instalación

Un altar a Betara Desa (detalles)

Un altar a betara desa (detalle)

Fotografías: Transart foundation / Juan José Olavarría

"Artists in Trance" at Rice University

Latin American art, various artists - Houston, Texas - Review of Exhibitions - Brief Article

Art in America. Jan, 1998

by Thomas McEvilley

"Artists In Trance: New Methodologies in work with the `Other' in Latin American Art" was organized by two artists, Abdel Hernandez and Surpik Angelini, with the collaboration of anthropologist George Marcus. Over a period of three months, various performances and lectures were presented along with three exhibitions which were installed in different venues on the campus of Rice University. In the exhibitions, five Latin American artists, along with one American artist of Venezuelan descent, attempted to push the postmodern or multiculturalist association of art and anthropology to a new limit. Hernandez aptly called the project a "workshop for experimental ethnography."

(...) In the gallery of the School of Architecture, Ernesto Leal of Cuba and Juan Jose Olavarria of Venezuela installed a complex work titled Discussion with Betara Desa. In part a parody of ethnological displays in natural-history museums, the installation, whose title refers to a Balinese goddess, sought to reverse conventional ethnographical practice, which traditionally has seen the West as the Self and the rest of the world as the Other. To this end, the artists presented exhibits which treated Houston as a primitive society filled with unaccountable strangeness, from cowboy culture to NASA...