Beta-Local is a San Juan-based non-profit organization founded in 2009 and dedicated to supporting and promoting cultural practices and transdisciplinary knowledge exchange. It was conceived as an organization by and for artists, responding to a state of permanent crisis and disinvestment in arts and culture in Puerto Rico. Co-Directors Pablo Guardiola, Michael Linares, and nibia pastrana santiago lead Beta-Local, and the organization is an anchor of the Puerto Rican arts ecosystem. Beta-Local’s focus is to facilitate time, space, and working structures for artist’s practices in Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. As an artist-run initiative, the organization develops long-term relationships to strengthen and expand a wide network of cultural workers in order to generate new ways of sharing artistic and cultural work beyond established circuits.
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Installation view, en el borde erosionado de una isla ocupada (On an Occupied Island’s Eroded Borders), Hidrante, Santurce, Puerto Rico (July–August, 2022). Courtesy of Caribbean-yet-to-come. Photo credit: José López Serra.
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Installation view, Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué, Caribbean-yet-to-come, 2017–2018. Video Installation. Courtesy of Caribbean-yet-to-come. Photo credit: José López Serra.
Rodríguez-Bagué will work with Beta-Local to transform their series Caribbean-yet-to-come into a foundation for the exhibitions and public programming. In alignment with Beta-Local’s work to redistribute resources to creative practitioners working in Puerto Rico, Rodríguez Bagué’s curatorial platform is meant to expand beyond Beta-Local to connect not only the San Juan arts ecosystem but also across those in the Caribbean.