some projects with artists

Here is a list of projects in collaboration with artists, done in the past decade or so:

• PROJECT TOPOI: From 2014 to (about) 2017, we did a joint project with one other mathematician (Roman Kossak – CUNY) and two artists (Wanda Siedlecka – New York City, and María Clara Cortés – UNAL, Bogotá). It is a math/art project that has been shown so far twice in the Painters Gallery in Fleischmanns, New York). The project is extended in time and consists of various actions. There was also a screening of a joint video at the John Ricard Studio in Manhattan, on March 19th 2016. An early description of our project was given in a PechaKucha presentation in November 2013 in Bogotá: http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/bogota/presentations/tales-of-topoi.

• POSPONER LA EMERGENCIA: For the Cátedra Performativa of the 45th National Salon of Artists (Bogotá, 2019), together with violinist Ana Ruiz, we performed a “conversation” between mathematics and violin, based on two texts (one by Ovid, one by Parmenides).

Andrés y Ana comienzan con un coro a dos voces con variaciones sobre un texto de Las Metamorfosis de Ovidio: Si nadie quiere mi carga, que el mismo Júpiter guíe mi carro, que puede ser oficio menos cruel que el de privar de sus hijos a sus padres. Ana toma el violín y comienza a tocar, se puede ver cómo con todo el cuerpo interpreta las distintas variaciones. En simultáneo Andrés, en un tablero, realiza trazos que corresponden a elaboracio- nes matemáticas (sobre todo de Lógica y Categorías), que recurren a figuras reconocibles para el público que puede especular sobre su sentido. Los dos siguen mentalmente una partitura, un diagrama que trazaron juntos conversando sobre los temas que comparten. Los dos cierran la acción volviendo al coro de voces, esta vez alternando la frase del poema de Parménides: Pues ser y signi car es lo mismo…

From the description of our performance at the 45SNA

 

• FOUR/LOGUE: Four Logue project is a conversation among Wanda, María Clara, Roman and Andrés. Each of us gives instructions for  everyone to follow. Each response can be a photographic image itself, or a  documentation of an action, an object, an installation, etc., combined into one image to be included on the main page of the project.

The name Four Logue is a neologism to name a dialogue among the four of us. Our previous project,  Topoi a Conversation, was an experiment in communication through images rather than words. The results can be seen here:

https://projecttopoi.wordpress.com/topoi2-a-conversation-through-art-and-mathematics/

Four Logue has a more structured format. Single images,  or a potential image, convey the “responses”, but at the same time they expose tensions arising from subjective interpretations of the instructions.