PERSONAL AUTHORSHIP: KEYS TO MAKING A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT STAND OUT ON TODAY'S SCENE
JESUS MICÓ
From 30 to 31 October 2019
The Spanish curator and editor Jesús Micó travels regularly to different countries giving workshops and project reviews in search of authors and projects for his curatorial and editorial projects (including Kursala), among them: PHE, PATATA festival in Granada, Photography Seminar in Albarracín, CFC Bilbao, Full Contact in SCAN-Tarragona, Lleida, Photographic meetings in the CAF of Almería, in Gran Canaria, courses in Rabat, Quito, Lima, Sto Domingo, Santiago Chile, Buenos Aires, among others. The selected authors will be promoted at an international level. A selection of 12 authors will be selected for the review of projects with Jesús Micó. In addition to the 12 selected authors, 10 listeners will be accepted. The project reviews will be personalised but public so that the rest of the participants present can listen to the comments and recommendations that will provide ideas and strategies for the production, presentation and circulation of the work that are useful to everyone. This workshop will include a 4-hour theoretical session and 12 individual reviews.
Jesús Micó Palero cÁdIz, spain.
He creates, manages, researches and teaches photography. He has given classes and lectures on the theory, history and aesthetics of photography at public universities, art centres, festivals and various Spanish and Latin American institutions.
He holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cádiz and a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. His artistic work has been presented in many galleries and venues such as Fòrum (Tarragona), H2O (Barcelona), Canal Isabel II and Fundación Canal Isabel II (Madrid), Museo de Antropología (former MEAC, Madrid), Patio de Escuelas (Univ. Salamanca), Sala de Caja Madrid (Barcelona), MUSAC (León). etc. He has published three books as well as several collective catalogues such as Propuesta 99 (Ministry of Culture), Ocultos (Fundación Canal de Madrid) and Sujeto (MUSAC).
Micó has curated for 4 editions of the international Talent Latent exhibition - in which 10 new photography projects from all over the world are awarded, produced and exhibited - which is part of the international photography festival SCAN-Tarragona (2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016).
He also regularly curates exhibitions of young artists for different public entities or private galleries, and writes articles of criticism and opinion on the photographic medium.
He is currently touring with the AECID (until 2020) to different cities in Latin America and Europe (Peru, Dominican Republic, Chile, Argentina and Mexico -in 2019-), as well as the large collective exhibition with 54 emerging authors that he prepared for the Canal de Isabel II in Madrid (May 2017) entitled Un cierto panorama (recent author photography in Spain). He is the coordinator of the annual FOTOLIBRO 40 competition for the Community of Madrid (publication of a reference volume for authors under 40 years old).
