Digital Call - Prince Claus Fund

INCA
Who: Alejandra Ballón Gutierrez
What: Nationwide, Critical research and Art/Investigación Nacional Crítica y Arte.
Where: Lima, Peru
When: From 1-10-2012 until 30-09-2013
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
INCA project is an online platform for contemporary Peruvian memory and theory. The first stage
encompasses the development of an e-archive with around 70 digitalized documents from the Peruvian
art scene from the 1950s up to the present. Articles and audios of the abstracts will available in Spanish,
Quechua and English. The second stage involves the production and online publication of 10 trilingual e-
books. The aim of the project is twofold: to recuperate and protect the content of the recent Peruvian
cultural memory, and to produce new opportunities for viewing the contemporary Peruvian cultural
scene.
Due to the extreme censorship and destructive policy towards the arts during the decade of the
Fujimori dictatorship (1990-2000), Peru was left with a ‘vacuum’ in which there are no archives,
publications, or critics. INCA proposes to regenerate and heal Peru’s contemporary arts scene by filling
the gap in the infrastructure for the creation, presentation, and discussion concerning contemporary
arts, to create a space for critical reflection on Peru’s social, economic and political context.
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