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Mtro. Rodrigo Viñas Miranda

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  • Role in Center:

    Co-pilot Core Partner Mexico

  • Discipline:

    Art Based Research, Visual Arts, Curator

  • University:

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

  • Country:

    Mexico

Rodrigo Viñas is an independent artist and curator, with a background in visual arts and currently pursuing his PhD in visual arts at UNAM (Mexico City). He was member of the National System of Creators (2021-24) and co-founder of the Research-Based Art collective TRES. His art-based research practice is concentrated on the implications of fragmented space and waste. Of particular interest has been the inquiry on garbage as a physical and conceptual residue that entails political and material implications. One fundamental aspect of TRES is the methodological intertwining with biology, anthropology and archaeology among other disciplines and through extra-disciplinary practices.

Selected Publications:

  • Botvinik, I & Viñas, R. (2024): “¡Que nadie se mueva! Sin televisión no hay nación”, TRES, UMÁTICA. Revista sobre creación y análisis de la imagen, (7), Universidad de Málaga, España.

    Boltvinik, De Flander & Viñas (coord.) (2024): out of site / sight. contagious tactics for wicked urban problems,.) Festina publicaciones. ISBN 978-607-99462-3-4

    Viñas, R. /Botvinik, I. (2024): Chapter “Postplanetary Mexico? Satellites, Art, and Outer Space Ecosystems” TRES + Anne W. Johnson, en: Routledge (forthcoming).

    Viñas, R. /Botvinik, I. (2024): Chapter “Cómo transitar del agua al cielo” TRES, in: Las islas también se desplazan. Diálogos sobre arte, política y territorio. Islario Ediciones ISBN 978-607-69543-0-0

    Viñas, R. /Botvinik, I. (2022): “Objeto X—-“ TRES, Revista POST(S) 8: Voces vivas de cosas inhertes, Colegio de comunicación y artes contemporáneas de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

    Viñas, R. “minutas parasitadas” In: Boltvinik I. (coord.) mala HIERBA nunca muere (título tentativo) (2021), Festina Publicaciones & UV, Mexico.

    Viñas, R. /Botvinik, I. (2021): “Trapped” TRES. In: Kramer, Nuria (Ed.). C/O Magazine, Contamination – Affection, Issue #0, Vienna, pp.47-54

    Viñas, R. /Botvinik, I. (2021): “Glosario de términos (y principios)” Primera edición. https://gcas-la.com/

    Viñas, R. /Botvinik, I. (2018): “Transoceanic Traveling Trash” (TRES), ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, 8 (2). Link to publication

    Viñas, R./ Botvinik, I. (2017): TRES and Francesco Scasciamacchia. Permanencia voluntaria, Squash Editions IV.

Areas of Expertise:

  • More-than-human Urban Fragmentation
  • Art-Based Research
  • Extra and Transdisciplinary Methodologies
  • Studies of Waste
  • Visual Arts

Current Position(s):

  • Co-director, TRES
  • Phd student, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Past Position(s)

  • Faculty member, Department of Photography, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda”, Mexico City.
  • Faculty member, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, National Center for the Arts, Mexico City.
  • Contemporary Photography Curator at the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.

Prizes & Awards:

  • 2021-2024: National System of the Arts Grantee, SNCA, Mexico
  • 2020: Grantee, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
  • 2019: Represented Mexico (official selection), XIII Havana Biennale, Cuba
  • 2016: Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. https://peabody.harvard.edu/tres-art
  • 2015: Winner of the WYNG Master Award Commission on WASTE, Hong Kong, for Ubiquitous Trash-Hong Kong Edition