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LA CASTIDAD
Chastity
‘La Castidad (Chastity)’ is a video installation that can only be viewed by two people at the same time. According to the artists Syd Krochmalny and Roberto Jacoby, their video installation is "a fictional version of a realistic micro-political experiment that covers our entire life”. We explore a basic social bond different from sexual partnership and other than common friendship". They research on the "technologies of Friendship" which has taken as its object of study the distance between generations, and between two men, like Philia and Eros, Socrates and Alcibiades, Gilgamesh and Enkiddu, David and Jonathan, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, Bouvard and Pécuchet, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Komar and Melamid, Deleuze and Guattari and, of course, Laurel and Hardy. In these exemplary friendships, sexuality was an undertone that was a perhaps never consumed. La Castidad has to be experienced in an intimate way, between only two persons, like " a conversation by two for two or like a loop binding art to life.
EXHIBITIONS
BEBÉS CON PRECIO
Curated by Santiago Villanueva, Hipopoety, Buenos Aires Argentina, 2024.
Guiñadas Gráciles: Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Video Art
Organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard (October 23, 2017 to April 10, 2018) and curated by Joaquin Terrones, Preceptor in Expository Writing at the Harvard College Writing Program and Lecturer in Literature and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT.Karen Harley (Brazil), Roberto Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny (Argentina), Carlos Leppe (Chile), Hélio Oiticica (Brazil), Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala)
La Castidad
El gran vidrio, Córdoba Argentina, 2017.
El Deseo Nace del Derrumbe
Curated by Ana Longoni, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2011.
La Castidad
Barocruz Gallery, San Pablo, 2008.
La Castidad
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, organized by Valeria Garrote, Rutgers University, 2007
La Castidad
Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University, organized by Doris Sommer, 2007.
Beginning with the Bang
Curated by Victoria Noorthoorn
Americas Society, New York City, United States, 2007.
Negatec
Curated by Luis Camnitzer
Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires Argentina, 2007.
(Alfredo Jaar, The Critical Art Ensemble, Ingo Günther, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jenny Perlin, Liza McConnell, martinafischer13, Mika Rottenberg, Ola Pehrson, Oswaldo Maciá, Roberto Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny, Wim Delvoye, and the Yes Men.)
FESTIVALS
LA CASTIDAD
El Ciclo Rosa, Colombia, 2021.
LA CASTIDAD
FESTIFREAK: Sección Fruity Loops: arte proyecciones y performance en Cine, 2018
LA CASTIDAD
Festival Asterisco, Directed by Albertina Carri. Presidencia de La Nación, Argentina, 2016.
LA CASTIDAD
Videos with Sauce Projecció de nova creació en vídeo argentí, programa off Loop Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, June 2007.
LA CASTIDAD
Festival program off Loop, Fundación Start, Buenos Aires, March 2007.
Selected Academic and Critical References
Roberto Jacoby – Catálogo digital
Ed. El Gran Vidrio (Córdoba, Argentina), 2022
Panel Discussion: Looking Out for the Queer
Sergio Delgado Moya and Joaquin S. Terrones, Sylvia Molloy, Gabriela Rangel, Carl Fischer, Jose Gatti
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Art Program, Harvard University, 2018
Alexander Alberro
October 153, MIT, 2015
Dead Boars, Viruses, and Zombies: Roberto Jacoby’s Art History
Syd Krochmalny
Guggenheim
1000 WORDS
Nicolás Guagnini
Art Forum, 2011
Roars of Argentina’s Past, Murmurs of Its Present
Ken Johnson
New York Times, 2007
Live and Learn
Santiago García Navarro
Frieze Magazine, 2007
Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy
Catálogo de la exposición de artistas contemporáneos argentinos 1960–2007, Americas Society, Nueva York (curaduría de Victoria Noorthoorn; Harvard University Press, 2007.
Beginning with a Bang
EVE MELTZER
Frieze Magazine
Del amor y sus diferencias”
Gabriel Rugiero, revista Imperio
(Buenos Aires, julio de 2007)
Del amor y sus diferencias”
Gabriel Rugiero, revista Imperio
(Buenos Aires, julio de 2007)
Arte y política de la amistad
Krochmanly, Syd.
IV Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores. Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires.
La tecnología y la brújula del arte
Valeria González, diario Página/12, suplemento Artes, 10 de abril de 2007.
La otra cara de la tecnología
JULIO SANCHEZ
LA NACIÓN, 2007
MUESTRA DE LA SEMANA
NEGATEC en Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Jorge Zuzulich
Arte al dia
Una playa fantastica
Página 12
VIERNES, 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2007
Argentinos en Nueva York, con “arte, arte, arte”, como dice la diva Minujín
Ana Quijano
Ámbito Financiero
Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy
Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists, 1960–2007
Richard Leslie
Art Nexus
Negatec
Luis Camnitzer
Fundación Telefónica, 2007
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