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representación oficial

English translation: municipal/institutional/official support

14:49 Dec 18, 2020
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Spanish term or phrase: representación oficial
This is a text about a Mexican project for the Lima Biennial of 2002:
Aún así, esa energía retórica estaba acompañada de una determinada incertidumbre sobre los recursos disponibles. En principio, la Bienal de Lima dependería de la solidaridad de los curadores invitados, sin tener una representación oficial ni recursos económicos claros.

Does that mean government backing?? "representacion" is often used to refer to the participation/exhibition of each country...does it mean here that Mexico's Foreign Office would not support the project? Still, the lack of resources seems to be on the Peruvian end...
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 02:29
English translation:municipal/institutional/official support
Explanation:
Please see the reference box.

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Note added at 2 days 30 mins (2020-12-20 15:20:35 GMT) Post-grading
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'Government support' is a good solution. Wendy, thanks for the points!
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Helena Chavarria
Spain
Local time: 07:29
Grading comment
I went for government support. Thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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3 +4municipal/institutional/official support
Helena Chavarria
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
municipal/institutional/official support


Explanation:
Please see the reference box.

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Note added at 2 days 30 mins (2020-12-20 15:20:35 GMT) Post-grading
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'Government support' is a good solution. Wendy, thanks for the points!

Helena Chavarria
Spain
Local time: 07:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
I went for government support. Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Pablo Waldman
5 mins
  -> Thank you, Pablo :-)
agree  philgoddard
1 hr
  -> Cheers, Phil :-)
agree  Cláudia Pinheiro Pereira
16 hrs
  -> Thank you, Cláudia :-)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
1 day 10 hrs
  -> Thank you, Muriel :-)
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3 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference

Reference information:
Finally, I considered to what degree the legibility of the city of Lima as a site was blurred by the political transition after the fall of the regime of Alberto Fujimori’s (1992-2000), whose collapse occurred duringthe Biennial’s six-year run and whose crimes—corruption and human rights abuses—were still legally unaccounted for at the time of the event.

In this article, however, I posit that the organizers’ and invited international artists’ distinct interests and their divergent understandings and conceptualizations of a site were the key factors that contributed to the Biennial’s insufficiency. Yet, the failure of the Lima Biennial is widely equated with the project’s dissolution. Due to the change of political winds, the municipal support of the exhibition was withdrawn because the new mayor Luis Lossio,elected in 2003, was ostensibly disinterested in—or even hostile to—cultural policy.

Otherwise, it might seem that with the soundfunding and policy support, the project wouldhave been failure-proof.

https://www.academia.edu/35855253/On_the_Impossibility_of_Dr...

It appears to have been a political issue. The mayor wasn't interested in supporting the event.

Helena Chavarria
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  philgoddard: You should post an answer. I would, but you've done all the work :-)
1 min
  -> That's very kind of you. Thanks, Phil :-)
neutral  Pablo Waldman: Apparently, the 2002 Biennale did have official support, but the text our colleague is asking about might refer to a point in time when such support wasn't sure. Anyway, "official/government support" seems to me as the correct translation.
16 mins
  -> Pablo, thank you for your opinion :-)
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