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i d e n t i d a d e s.04 webpage is ready, You can visit and have its highlights overview here

Systemic Excellence Group and the Social Design site selected i d e n t i d a d e s as one of those "innovative projects that help develop and sharpen our common understanding of social design". See it here

5célula informs there will be an Interdisciplinary Colloquium to approach the subject of i d e n t i d a d e s from different points of view. Genre Studies, Philosophy, History, Psychology, Eco-Biology and Art Critique will be the fields of our guests talks. The Colloquium will be during the last week of August.

Invited long distance artist Aimee Lee has been interviewed by Brian Sherwin for Myartspace, where she announces her participation on i d e n t i d a d e s:

The other major project I am working on is La Invasión de las hojas, an outdoor installation that will be presented in Mexico this fall. I have been invited to be a long-distance artist for identidades.04, a residency that brings art to public spaces for audiences that are usually not exposed to international contemporary artists. This year's theme is memory as it relates to identity. While traveling to make paper from local plants, I learned about invasive species and considered that botanical concept as it relates to how immigrants are viewed in their adopted countries.

As an American-born woman of Korean heritage, I have strong memories of growing up as the other, and am developing text about these experiences. I will transfer these stories to handmade paper leaves that will be affixed to eucalyptus plants (a major invasive species in Mexico) in the city of Morelia, which is the site of identidades.04. They will hang alongside real leaves and be available for the public to read, take, or move to other plants or sites, setting the leaves and stories on another migration.

identidades.04, with identity and memory theme, will happen from September 20th to October 9th 2008. i d e n t i d a d e s is the flagship program of 5célula, aimed at increasing the presence of contemporary Art in our communities. The theme to explore is Memory related to identity, the aim is to share this exploration with the people of the city, right there in the neighborhood, in the streets, and make a unique piece of contemporaneous collective art. This year we are looking for artists and projects able to trigger on common people in their neighborhoods a new vision of the possible worlds born from their own realities, to create and find magical instants and critical reflections, to be the worn paradigm breakers, to be seed, mirror, game. To look altogether -artists and public- at urban space with a new engagement that brings creative wellness , memory, joy and hope. And, for artists, to provoke themselves to jump higher.

This time we will have 3 European and 3 Latinamerican artists; 3 peripherial long distance projects, and 3 michoacan artists selected by a call. Plus a nomad.