Arakistain, Xabier (Nombre Personal)

Trans sexual express, 2001: portada (Xabier Arakistain)

Arakis.info, via WWW, March 22, 2019 (Xabier Arakistain (Madrid 1966) is a feminist curator based in Bilbao; Xabier Arakistain incorporated the category of sex as a curatorial criterion since his first exhibition, Trans Sexual Express (BilbaoArte, 1999); between 2001 and 2003 he introduced gender parity into the exhibition programme at Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, and from 2003 to 2006 he directed the debates on art and feminism at the ARCO contemporary art expert forums; in 2005 he launched Manifiesto Arco 2005; he was Director of Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 2007 to 2011; in 2008 he initiated, in collaboration with feminist anthropologist Lourdes Méndez, the yearly interdisciplinary, international and intergenerational course Artistic Production and the Feminist Theory of Art: New Debates) http://www.arakis.info/