To mark Latitudes’ 20th anniversary this April 2025, we have refreshed the design of our Portfolio. The 10th edition is available in desktop, mobile, and print formats.

Looking back, our first anniversary in April 2006 was a whirlwind. We were deep in the editorial process of “LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook” (published in December 2006), an anthology co-edited by the Royal Society of Arts and Arts Council England. Amid that hectic process, we forgot to commemorate.

Five years later, in 2010, we marked the occasion with our 22nd newsletter – our first featuring a birthday candle. At the time, we were gearing up for a road trip from Barcelona to London to take part in another milestone: Tate Modern's 10th Anniversary. To mark the occasion, artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni organised the second edition of NO SOUL FOR SALE - A Festival of Independents, which occupied Tate's Turbine Hall for a long weekend in mid-May 2010. Our journey was itself an artwork—Martí Anson, in his role as artist-cum-chauffeur, drove us to London and back as part of his project “Mataró Chauffeur Service”, ensuring we arrived in style (or rather truly tired) for the celebration.

The 2020 redesign is still mostly up today, with a few updates, such as the font.

We can't believe two decades have flown by since we decided to give it a go as freelancers. This April 2025 finds us recovering from two major exhibitions that opened this past February– two much-anticipated solo exhibitions in Madrid. The first is the survey of Mexican-born, Bilbao-based artist Jorge Satorre at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles. The second is also a survey, featuring the work of Barcelona-based artist Laia Estruch, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Both exhibitions are accompanied by the artists’ first monographs, covering works created from 2011 to the present. Estruch’s monograph will be available later in Spring, while Satorre’s, co-published by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial, is already available for purchase online (€30, including shipping within Spain) here and from Museo CA2M front desk.

Pages of “Rio [River]” (2025) copublished by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial. Photos: Latitudes.

Mock-up of the Spanish edition of “Laia Estruch. Hello Everyone” published by the Museo Reina Sofía. Available from Spring 2025.

Speaking of books, we’re pleased to announce that our publications are now more widely accessible. The Library and Documentation Centre of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) has been added to the list of institutions where a complete (or nearly complete) collection of Latitudes publications is available for public reference.

RELATED CONTENT:

• Latitudes’ 15th anniversary and rebuilt and redesigned website, 2 May 2020
• Reduce Art Flights website refreshed, 5 February 2020
• Latitudes' redesigned portfolio – projects since 2005 (20 February 2019)
• Lawrence Weiner tote bag and sugar sachets at the McManus Museum and Galleries in Dundee (26 November 2018)
• Lawrence Weiner's THE CREST OF A WAVE tote bag in the Tate Archive and exhibited at The McManus Museum and Galleries, Dundee, 26 October 2018
• Newsletter #22 – April 2010, 8 April 2010
• Latitudes' 4th anniversary, 2 April 2009

The fifth 'Incidents (of Travel)' episode narrates an encounter between curator Simon Soon and artist chi too. Their offline day took place in April 2016, when they visited the Malaysian North Eastern state of Terengganu, where chi spent some time in 2013, surrounded by "men and women who work(ed) multiple jobs as a fishermen, house builders, boat builders, farmers, coconut pickers, food producers, and everything else that matters."

Each of the 16 photographs and videos is augmented by one or more extra assets (a brief commentary, a caption or a soundscape), accessed by clicking the words which overlay the images. 

http://incidents.kadist.org/

Originally conceived by Latitudes as day-long artist-led tours around Mexico City in 2012 (with five dispatches presented as part of an exhibition on Latitudes' curatorial practice at Casa del Lago) 'Incidents of Travel' had sequels in 2013 in Hong Kong (online dispatches published via twitter, instagram, and soundcloud) and San Francisco in 2015 (daily posts on Kadist' instagram as part of their #ArtistNotInTheStudioCuratorNotAtTheOffice take over initiative).

The project explores the chartered itinerary as a format of artistic encounter and an extended conversation between curator/s and artist/s. Online storytelling presents and documents curatorial fieldwork and an offline day conceived by an artist for a curator.

• Fourth episode of 'Incidents (of Travel)' – Dispatch by Pedro de Llano and Luisa Cunha from Lisbon, Portugal 2 March 2017
• Third episode of 'Incidents (of Travel)' – Dispatch by Yu JI and Xiao Kaiyu reporting from Suzhou, China 6 September 2016
• Second 'Incidents (of Travel)' dispatch by Moses Serubiri and Mohsen Taha reporting from Jinja, Uganda 30 June 2016
• Kadist and Latitudes present 'Incidents (Of Travel)' online 31 May 2016
• Instagram takeover of Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco (28 August 2015)
• Residency at the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, 26 August–9 September 2015 (29 August 2015)
• Nadim Abbas' "Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong" public tour (19 January 2013)
• Ho Sin Tung "Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong" tour (30 January 2013)
• Yuk King Tan's "Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong" tour (3 February 2013)
• Samson Young's "Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong" tour (7 February 2013)
• Archive of social media posts related to "Incidents of Travel" tours and photo-documentation.
• 13 field recordings from 'Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong'
• Interview between Christina Li and Latitudes on 'Incidents of Travel' for Witte de With's 'Witness to Moderation(s)' blog 7 May 2013
• Inauguración de 'Incidentes de viaje' & 'Proyectos 2005–2012' en La Sucursal, Casa del Lago, México DF, 27 de septiembre 19:30h 25 septiembre 2012

http://www.lttds.org

• Archive of Cover Stories
• Photos of the launch of the publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' at the LCE, London 15 December 2006
• Photos of the publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' (RSA, 2006) 14 December 2006 
• Looking back – Visiting Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty' (1970) 7 September 2004 
• Cover Story, November 2016: Plucking Gilda, synesthetic Toni and dazzling Víctor 2 November 2016
• Cover Story, October 2016: "A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Gallery, 13 October 2016
• Cover Story, September 2016: "El misterio de Caviria" by Antoni Hervàs 1 Septiembre 2016
• Last chance to read the August 2016 Monthly Cover Story "Fermínlandia" 31 August 2016

A few months ago, on January 31, an 8-hour internet-free workshop took place at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. The workshop had the objective of harvesting quotes from amongst the thousands of books, artists correspondence, articles, exhibition invitations that are available at the archive, that made reference to three main subjects: "Influence" (on references, legacy, canalisation), "Itinerary" (on events, time, place, location) or "Moderation" (on collaboration, group dynamics, strategies for participation, partnerships).   The workshop was led by artist/writer and Moderation(s) moderator Heman Chong, together with curatorial duo Latitudes, and counted with the participation of two Incidents of Travel artists' Nadim Abbas and Yuk King Tan, as well as with Spring Workshop founder Mimi Brown and Chantal Wong, Head of Strategy & Special Projects at Asia Art Archive. The results of these processes or 'entry points' will be presented later this year (date TBA) on a temporary shelf within the Asia Art Archive, where a host of bookmarks, Post-it notes, and jottings placed within books and documents will reveal the traces of an extended interpersonal conversation.  On a related note, and following on from that experience, Latitudes mantained a conversation with the above mentioned Chantal Wong, as well as with Hammad Nasar (Head of Research and Programmes) and Lydia Ngai (Head Librarian) of the Asia Art Archive in the context of Latitudes' #OpenCurating research project. The conversation was published at the end of April, as the concluding chapter of a series of ten interviews conducted since August 2012 with artists, editors, curators, archivists and new media specialists on how the internet and the ongoing expectation for new forms of interaction between publics is changing contemporary art museums programmes.
Workshop participants (left to right) Artist Nadim Abbas; curators Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna of Latitudes; artist, writer and Moderation(s) moderator Heman Chong, artist Yuk King Tan, Spring Workshop founder Mimi Brown; Head of Strategy & Special Projects at Asia Art Archive, Chantal Wong; and Athena Wu, Programme Manager at Spring Workshop.

View of Sheung Wan area from the Asia Art Archive. Photo: Latitudes.

A quick database search before jumping onto the bookshelves.

Reading, selecting, highlighting, noting down... Photo: Mimi Brown.

Workshop participants amongst Asia Art Archive's library stacks.

• (1 May 2013) "Archive as Method: An Interview with Chantal Wong, Hammad Nasar and Lydia Ngai" of the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Final #OpenCurating interview. 
• Soundscapes of "Incidents of Travel";
• Storify "Incidents of Travel";
• Flickr album of the four tours of "Incidents of Travel".