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2007. ARTISTS / INTERVENTIONS / LINKS

Discoteca Flaming Star    Discoteca Flaming Star        www.discotecaflamingstar.com

Johanna Billing    You don’t love me yet    www.makeithappen.org/johannabilling.html

Alfonso Gil + Francis Gomila   Guantanamera    www.alonsogil.com   www.digitalartsgallery.co.uk/FG.ARTISTSpage.html

Ben Frost   I lay my ear to furious latinwww.ethermachines.com

Dan Perjovschi    Off www.perjovschi.rowww.lombard-freid.comwww.gregorpodnar.com

Dirk Vollenbroich    Short circuit / Cortocircuito www.dirkvollebroich

Mandla Reuter Pictureshttp://www.mandlareuter.com/

Susan PhillipszFollow Me

Anikka Ström    The missed concert    www.annikastrom.net

Dora García    Rezos/Prayers    www.doragarcia.net    www.rezosprayers.org

Nexus Art Group    Proyecto[NEXUS*]Jose Luis Delgado Guitart Ricardo EchevarríaMajorie KanterAchilleas Kentonis María Papacharalambous

Oswaldo Macià    Cuando los perros ladran     www.oswaldomacia.com

Leopold KesslerAlarm bikehttp://www.leopoldkessler.net/www/index.html

 

 

 

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2007. Jorge Díez. PRESENTATION

 MADRID ABIERTO is an international artistic initiatives programme which is held throughout the month of February in the junction Paseo de la Castellana-Recoletos-Prado since 2004. It is an avenue for approaching the interpretation and comprehension of how the public space is constructed from the sphere of art. Since its first open invitation announcement it has received more than 1.200 proposals. Out of all the projects presented, 29 were exhibited in the previous three editions and 13 will be exhibited this year, selected by different juries comprised by international experts.

Organised by the Cultural Association MADRID ABIERTO, the 2007 edition of the programme is promoted by the Altadis Foundation, the Department of Culture and Sport of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the Governing Department for the Arts of the City Council of Madrid, with the collaboration of the Telefónica Foundation, La Casa Encendida of Obra Social Caja Madrid, the Ministry of Culture, ARCO, Radio 3 of RNE, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Canal Metro, Cemusa, Centro Cultural de la Villa of Madrid, Remo, Mediazero and Metro.

For this fourth edition, which will be held from the 1st to the 28th of February, a total of 658 projects were presented; 471 for the general invitation, 61 for the façade of La Casa de América, 28 for the façade of Círculo de Bellas Artes, 74 works for Canal Metro and 24 sonorous initiatives for Radio 3. The breakdown by countries of the projects presented is as follows: Spain (174), Italy (46), USA (46), Mexico (40), Argentina (33), Germany (28), Colombia (28), France (25), Brazil (18), Canada (16), Cuba (16), Ecuador (14), Chile (13), The Netherlands (13), Portugal (12), Ireland (9), Sweden (9), United Kingdom (9), Venezuela (9), Japan (7), Austria (6), Yugoslavia (6), Australia (5), Peru (5), Belgium (4), Costa Rica (4), Finland (4), Norway (4), Poland (4), Turkey (4), China (3), Croatia (3), Slovenia (3), Russia (3), Switzerland (3), Uruguay (3), Bulgaria (2), El Salvador (2), Georgia (2), Guatemala (2), India (2), Iceland (2), Israel (2), New Zealand (2), Czech Republic (2), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), Estonia (1), The Philippines (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), The Dominican Republic (1), Serbia (1) and Singapore (1).

The selection committee was comprised by Juan Antonio Álvarez-Reyes (curator of Madrid Abierto 2007), Ramon Parramon (director of Idensitat), Cecilia Andersson (director of Werk) and Guillaume Désanges (co-ordinator of art projects in Les Laboratoires D’Aubervilliers, Ille de France). We declared the project for the façade of Círculo de Bellas Artes unfulfilled and pre-selected thirty projects, from which the curator finally selected Fernando(We were young. Full of life. None of us prepared to die) by the collective Discoteca Flaming Star; proyecto_nexus* by the collective [nexus*] art group; I Lay My Ear To Furious Latin by Ben Frost; Rezos/Prayers by Dora García;Pictures by Mandla Reuter; Guantanamera by Alonso Gil and Francis Gomila and Short Circuit/Cortocircuito by Dirk Vollenbroich. In addition to these seven selected projects, the current edition is complemented by other projects from artists invited by the curator: Dan Perjovschi, Susan Philipsz, Johanna Billing, Leopold Kessler, Oswaldo Maciá and Annika Ström. Through this mixed selection model our intention is to continue to make progress in our objective of broadening each annual proposal of MADRID ABIERTO.

In this year’s edition, for the first time, two specific invitations for audiovisual and sonorous works were announced, which were selected by the curator, myself, Arturo Rodríguez and José Iges. The following 11 works were selected for projecting on Canal Metro: Rothkovisión 3.0 by Daniel Silvo; Mierda de caballos y príncipes by Fernando Baena; Rest by Carolina Jonsson; Every Word is becoming by Alexander Vaindorf; Alpenflug (Alpine Flight) by Juan Carlos Robles; Himno by Cristian Villavicencio; PlasmaLux06-7 by Tanja Vujinovic-Zvonka Simcic; Mis Quince by Alfredo Pérez; Lucía by Pere Ginard and Laura Ginés; Candy by Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi and The Toro’s Revenge by María Cañas. For broadcasting on Radio 3, the following 8 works were selected: Am I walking by Jouni Tauriainen; Bendicho juez de la verdad by Eldad Tsabary; Reiterations (Elizabeth Street) by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth; Postal Densa. Postal Sonora. Madrid-Bogotá by Mauricio Bejarano; Alkaline by Paul Devens; Funkenspiel by David Halsell; Poema Jazz (a Clara Gari) by Luis Eligio Pérez and BihotzBi by Zuriñe Gerenabarrena.

Likewise, following on with the work of the previous editions, E451 continues to develop the graphic image and web page and, for the second year running, together with various debate tables on public art, the selected artists will present their work in La Casa Encendida on the 1st and 2nd of February.

We are continuing the process of creating an initiative of a scale manageable by a small team without a permanent or continuous structure, based on an open invitation announcement geared towards the production of ephemeral or temporary projects for the public space of the city of Madrid.

Jorge Díez

 

 

 

 

 

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2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (theoretical data)

With torture music, our culture is no longer a means of individual expression, instead, it is an actual weapon.” Moustafa Bayoumi. Professor at Brooklyn College, New York

 

Guantanamera is a multimedia project that reflects on the use of music as a torture instrument. The piece will be located inside one of the air vents of Madrid’s Subway that leads onto the street and will be audio-visually experienced from outside, i.e., from the street.

Our proposals consists of installing a high-amplification sound system inside one of the metro’s air vents that leads onto the street, blasting all the existing versions of the song La guantanamera, including those of Celia Cruz, Los lobos, Compay Segundo, Tito Puente, Nana MousKouri, The Maveriks, and The Fugees, among many others, as well as versions specifically performed by artists and musicians for this project.

The strange development within the American military structure after the Vietnam War made it possible for a number of high rank members of the military intelligence to start thinking in innovative ways, adapting various obscure New Age theories to military strategy activities.

Currently, in the war on terrorism, America’s military forces have used pop music, rap and heavy metal, as a means to torture military prisoners. They have mainly used sleep deprivation, as a form of systematic disorientation that in most cases leads to madness. Songs by Eminem and Doctor Dre, among others, are used in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo.

During the age of the Inquisition there were different artefacts to torture and obtain confessions, a practice that disappeared in time. Although those machines may not exist, methods have evolved, and to have a sound system and a record is enough material to torture.

If the British used white noise in their interrogations of Irish Republicans, Americans prefer their own music. “Those people have never heard heavy metal. They can’t stand it”, said a Guantanamo interrogator to Newsweek. “Eminem is so alien to them that they go crazy”, added another one in Afghanistan, (quoted in ABC).

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, “prisoners were subject to rap music and heavy metal for extended periods of time at high volume”. In the Guantanamo prison they used Eminem, Britney Spears, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica and even Bruce Springsteen. The song Bodies (cadavers), by the metal band Drowning Pool was used in Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Haj Ali, an Iraqi man tortured in the Abu Ghraib prison, who appeared in an infamous picture having to keep himself on a cross position while hooded, had to listen, hour after hour, day after day, to David Gray’s Babylon, at full blast volume in his cell. It’s ironic because many of Eminem’s and Doctor Dre’s songs encourage victims of social injustice to stand and rebel.

The media has described a series of very aggressive measures used for long. For example, those prisoners who are unwilling to cooperate are stripped, chained to a chair that is attached to the ground and exposed to strobe lights, rock music and deafening rap, repeating songs constantly, about 50000 times, from speakers that are close to the ear. The captives are forced to listen to music at unbearable volume levels 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

La guantanamera is the most internationally rec¬ognised song of the Cuban song book. This catchy tune, which has travelled the world over represent¬ing Cubans as an anthem, was adapted by Julián Orbón based on a poem by José Martí. The melody exists since the 19th century and Joseito Fernández employed in his noticiario cantado (sang news) radio broadcasts during the forties.

The origin of the word Guantanamo comes from the Taino people, the aborigines of that area of Cuba, and means “river of the earth”. It is precisely this geographical area where the American naval base is located..

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (2006.12 / fieldwork)

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

“With torture music, our culture is no longer a means of individual expression, instead, it is an actual weapon… Disco isn’t dead, it has gone to war” Moustafa Bayoumi. Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Brooklyn College, City University of New York

In the depths of one of the air vents of Madrid’s Metro, located in the heart of the capital, we will install a powerful sound system which will blast versions of the classic Cuban theme GUANTANAMERA. This project is a reflection on the use of music as a torture instrument employed by the Psychological Machinery of the North American Armed Forces on detainees in Afganistan, Iraq and Guantanamo.

An invitation to participate… 

We are inviting artists who work with sound, musicians, DJs, rappers and Flamenco artists to collaborate in this project by recording their own versions of Guantanemera and also sending pre-existing versions to us.

If you would like to send us a version, please contact:

ALONSO GIL or FRANCIS GOMILA at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.xxThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.xx

The installation will be in place for a period of one month, coinciding with ARCO 07 (February 2007)

 

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2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (published text)

“With torture music, our culture is no longer a means of individual expression, instead, it is an actual weapon” Moustafa Bayoumi. Professor at Brooklyn College, New York

 

Guantanamera is a multimedia project that reflects on the use of music as a torture instrument. The piece will be located inside one of the air vents of Madrid’s Subway that leads onto the street and will be audio-visually experienced from outside, i.e., from the street.

Our proposals consists of installing a high-amplification sound system inside one of the metro’s air vents that leads onto the street, blasting all the existing versions of the song la guantanamera, including those of Celia Cruz, Los lobos, Compay Segundo, Tito Puente, Nana MousKouri, The Maveriks, and The Fugees, among many others, as well as versions specifically performed by artists and musicians for this project.

La guantanamera, is the most internationally recognised song of the Cuban song book. This catchy song, which has travelled the world over representing Cubans as an anthem, was adapted by Julián Orbón based on the poem of José Marti. The melody exists since the 19th century and Joseito Fernández employed in his  noticiario cantado (sang news) radio broadcasts during the forties.

Guantánamo is a word of Taino origin, the aborigines of that area of Cuba, meaning “the river of earth”. It is precisely in this geographical area where the USA naval base is located.

Currently, in the war against terror, the United States’ military forces have used pop, rap and heavy metal music as a means of torture against detainees in military prisons. It has specifically been used in sleep deprivation techniques, as a base for systematic disorientation which, in the majority of cases, leads to madness. 

 

 

 

 

 

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2007. Alfonso Gil + Francis Gomila (Cv)

ALFONSO GILBADAJOZ, 1966 LIVES AND WORKS IN SEVILLA WWW.ALONSOGIL.COM

FRANCIS GOMILAGIBRALTAR, 1954 LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN NEWCASTLE, UNITED KINGDOM; BERLINWWW.DIGITALARTSGALLERY.CO.UK/FG.ARTISTSPAGE.HTML

WORK IN MADRID ABIERTO: GUANTANAMERA

ALFONSO GILSOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006    ·    La Celda Grande MEIAC Badajoz

2002    ·    Incómodo, Sala de eStar, Seville

1998    ·    Cada Cual a su Tirano, Buades Gallery, Madrid

1997    ·    Acceder al interior es necesario, Berini Gallery, Barcelona

1996    ·    Casa de Luces, Cavecanem Gallery, Seville

1989    ·    Alonso Gil Ascan Crone Galerie, Hamburg, Germany.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS2004    ·    La alegría de mis sueños. 1st Contemporary Art Biennial of Seville (BIACS)·    ·    Transacciones / Fadaiat. On-line multimedia archive. Tarifa/Tangier I, UNIA art & thought

2003    ·    Lost boys, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam ·    Flashed out, Instant Cities, Mexican Institute, Paris ·    Seen, Fact, Liverpool

2002    ·    Manifesta 4, Frankfurt ·    The Big Social Game, International Young Art Biennial, Torino, Italy ·    Living Proof, Newcastle ·    Falling on you, London ·    3 VIDEOROM, Gian Carla Zanutti Gallery, Milan

2000    ·    3rd International Sonorous Art Festival, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico D.F., Mexico; ·    Punto de Partida. Apuntes para una colección, Andalusian Contemporary Art Center, Seville

1999    ·    Art for Two, Art & Idea, Hotel in San Francisco, Mexico D.F.; I & II Los Refractarios Hall, Buades Gallery, Madrid (1998-1999);

1998    ·    Disappearance Act, Bound & Unbound Gallery, New York (1998);

1997    ·    One of You, Among You, With You (homage to Martin Kippenberger), Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid ·    Obra al piso,  Vallarta 1085 Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico ·    Local Cultura, Museum and Archive of the Ceuta Port Authority. Within the multidisciplinary project Almadraba carried out on the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar (1997); ·    Pasarse de la raya (video programme), ExpoArt’97, Guadalajara, Mexico, and Art & Idea, Mexico D.F., Mexico;

1996    ·    Public Secrets. The Knitting Factory, New York ·    Wheel of Fortune, Lombard-Freid Gallery, New York; ·    Multiples at Printed Matter, Printed Matter, New York;

1994    ·    Ida y vuelta. Casa delJoven Creador Gallery (exhibition parallel to the 5th Biennial of Havana, Cuba.

EDUCATION:    ·    Holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville.

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES·    Generación 2002, Caja Madrid (2002); ·    Contemporary Artistic Creation, Department of Culture, Regional Government of Andalusia (2000); ·    Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York (1999); ·    Rodríguez Acosta Foundation, Granada (1989).

PUBLICATIONS·    Promotional Copy (Robin Kahn, editor), New York.·    Sin Dios, ni patria, ni ley, Puerto de las Artes, Provincial Council of Huelva.·    Atlántica International Arts Magazine, No. 25, pages 182-187.

PROJECTS 2001    ·    An Error Occurred. Foro Sur, Cáceres (2001)2000    ·    Domestico 02, Madrid·    Deleitarse en la N y deleitarse en la O, Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum, Mexico D.F

PUBLICS COLLECTIONS·    Caja Madrid Foundation; ·    Aduana, Rafael Alberti Foundation, ·    Provincial Council of Cadiz; ·    City Council of Utrera, Seville; ·    CAAC, Andalusian Contemporary Art Center, Seville; ·    Testimony Collection, La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona; ·    Congress Centrum Museum, Hamburg, Germany; ·    Provincial Council of  Malaga; ·    Fine Arts Museum of Asturias, Oviedo; ·    MEIAC Extremadura and Latin American Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz.

FRANCIS GOMILAEXHIBITIONS·    Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. ·    PRAGUE BIENNAL 1. ·    Veletrzni Palace Museum, Prague. ·    Artists Space New York.   ·    XI GRANCIA Sienna, Italy. ·    Expoarte Mexico. ·    Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. ·    Franklin Art Works Minneapolis USA. ·    NGBK Berlin. ·    Museum of Contemporary Art Marseille. ·    Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich. ·    ICA London.

 

 

 

 

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2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (visual data)

2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (visual data)

 

 

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2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (cd sound recording)

2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (cd sound recording)

 

     

1 Feten2 Jimena y Dirk3 Adriana Tijeras4 Moakara5 Trisexual Band6 Smokes Pleasure7 Silnave & R. Positiva8 Bettina Semmer y Dirk Busch9 Bala10 Ea7_dmZ11 Santiago Caiced12 Los Guantalibanes13 Arbol14 Pepe Narvona y Pililly15 Francis Gomilla16 Pseudjo17 S.A.Y.18 Azucar Letal19 Claudia Sacher

Name Play Size Duration
01 Feten
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

2.9 MB 3:12 min
02 Jimena y Dirk
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

3 MB 3:17 min
03 Adriana Tijeras
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

1.9 MB 2:07 min
04 Moakara
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

5.7 MB 6:14 min
05 Trisexual Band
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

3.9 MB 4:19 min
06 Smokes Pleasure
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

2.8 MB 3:03 min
07 Silnave & R. Positiva
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

6.6 MB 7:13 min
08 Bettina Semmer y Dirk Busch
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

3.7 MB 4:00 min
09 Bala
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

2.3 MB 2:31 min
10 Ea7_dmZ
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

6.8 MB 7:25 min
11 Santiago Caiced
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

3.9 MB 4:13 min
12 Los Guantalibanes
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

6 MB 6:36 min
13 Arbol
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

4.8 MB 5:15 min
14 Pepe Narvona y Pililly
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

4.4 MB 4:50 min
15 Francis Gomilla
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

3.8 MB 4:07 min
16 Pseudjo
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

4.1 MB 4:27 min
17 S.A.Y.
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

1 MB 1:03 min
18 Azucar Letal
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

2.9 MB 3:11 min
19 Claudia Sacher
Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila

0.9 MB 0:58 min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2007. Alonso Gil + Francis Gomila. GUANTANAMERA (images)

 

       

        

        

            

            

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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