Transcription of "Host and Ambassador: A Conversation with Yasmil Raymond", now available for download as a pdf or via Issuu from Latitudes' website.

This public event took place on the 19 February at the Auditori MACBA, as part of Latitudes' ongoing #OpenCurating research, which analyses the implications of Web 2.0, participation and transparency for contemporary art production and programming.

The talk with Dia Art Foundation's curator Yasmil Raymond addressed Dia's historical identity, the evolving role of the curator, and Raymond's vision in commissioning and preserving art projects. The evening incorporated "crowd-sourced" questions received via Twitter as well as via Facebook from the audience as well as from current and former work colleagues.

#OpenCurating is a research project by Latitudes produced through BCN Producció 2012 of the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona.

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Content partners: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Research trip to Dublin and Derry-Londonderry, Ireland, 8–14 March 2013

Invited by Dublin City Council Arts Office, Latitudes will visit art spaces, artist studios and galleries around Dublin and Derry-Londonderry for a week.

The schedule includes visits to The Red Stables; Temple Bar Gallery; Firestation Artists Studios; Green on Red Gallery; Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and Project Arts Centre, as well as talks by Latitudes to students of the MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS) (8 March, 3pm), and at the recently inaugurated Centre for Contemporary Art in Derry-Londonderry (9 March, 7pm) as well as participation in the seminar "Within the Public Realm" at the Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane (12 March, 2–5pm).

About Latitudes

Latitudes is an independent curatorial office initiated in April 2005 by Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, that works in an international context from and in Barcelona, Spain. Latitudes is a member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) and in 2010 received the inaugural Curatorial Award, Premios GAC.

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