2008. DISCUSSION PANELS PROGRAMME
Place: La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia No. 2, Madrid)Date: 7th and 8th FebruaryTime: From 17.00 to 21.00 h.
Continuing the practice established in the last editions, this year the debate tables are organised once again in collaboration with La Casa Encendida. As in previous editions, on the one hand, the debate tables will present the projects produced for Madrid Abierto and, on the other, they will introduce different initiatives developed within the sphere of art in the public space.
The round tables will include the active participation of the commission set up last year to debate the model of Madrid Abierto. The commission's co-ordinator, Rocío Gracia, and its members, Cecilia Anderson, Guillaume Désanges, Jorge Díez, Ramón Parramon, María Inés Rodríguez and Fito Rodríguez, together with this edition's organisers, the collective DEMOCRACIA.
For the artists’ presentations, the event's organisers have established three groups, although aware that the groups may be pervious and that one same project may meet several of the established premises. On the one hand, we will have the projects that make the contemporary class conflict visible, as well as a temporary suspension of the exclusions generated by this conflict, on another hand, those that employ elements or the propagandistic language of the urban scene, and lastly, those more closely associated with forms of urban culture.
The artistic experience developed in the public space faces the complex task of intervening in a saturated and hyper-aesthetized space with few fissures. The temporary and ephemeral nature of these artistic practices often places obstacles in the way of the dissemination and development possibilities of many interesting proposals that would require more time, with respect to the prior investigation and the subsequent production of the interventions as well as the desirable convergence with other projects and other social and cultural agents. In light of this, the opening of new spaces is needed to encourage other forms of production and dissemination, as well as the creation of networks of information and collaboration between this kind of artistic practices. For this reason, every year Madrid Abierto aims to give exposure to other similar experiences. In this edition, Nelson Brissac and Vit Havranek will be responsible for presenting invited projects, offering their experience in the debate on the strategies applied to the city and the territory from an artistic perspective, with more or less emphasis on experimentation, multi-discipline, the process and interaction with the public.
THURSDAY 7TH FEBRUARY
17:00-18:15 Presentation of Madrid Abierto projects
Hell is coming/World ends today. Andreas Templin
Not for sale/No se vende. Alicia Framis
Welcome On Board. Guillaume Ségur
Gran Sur. Fernando Prats
Chaired by: Cecilia Andersson; Democracia
18:15-19:30 Presentation of Madrid Abierto video projects
Arturo-Fito Rodríguez introduced by Rocío Gracia
20:00-21:00 Vít Havránek, introduced by Guillaume Désanges
FRIDAY 8TH FEBRUARY
17:00-18:15 Presentation Madrid Abierto projects
Speculator + Empty World. Todo por la praxis
Construye tu casa en una azotea. Santiago Cirugeda
Explorando Usera. La Hostia Fine Arts
Videointervenciones móviles en contextos urbanos específicos. Fernando Llanos
Moderan: María Inés Rodríguez y Democracia
18:30-19:30 Presentation Madrid Abierto projects
Estado de excepción. Noaz/Dier
Proposal Nr. 19 + Gift. Anno Dijkstra
No more no less + La hucha de los Incas. Jota Castro
La guerra es nuestra. Immi Lee/Annamarie Ho
Moderan: Ramon Parramon y Democracia
20:00-21:00 Nelsson Brissac, introduced by Jorge Díez
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Cecilia Andersson is curator and director of Werk Ltd., a curatorial agency established in Stockholm. Werk collaborates internationally in the organisation, production, promotion and publication of contemporary art.
Her recent projects include SuperSocial, social events set up in different cities; a series of conferences and seminars in collaboration with Francesco Jodice; On Cities, an exhibition organised in Stockholm’s Museum of Architecture and an itinerant programme of Chinese video.
Cecilia is an independent consultant for Disonancias, an interchange platform between artists and companies in San Sebastián and is part of the Madrid Abierto Commission.
Nelson Brissac is a philosopher whose works is related to art and urban-planning issues. Since 1994, he is organiser and curator of Arte/Cidade www.artecidade.org.br, an urban interventions project in São Paulo.
Guillaume Desange, is curator, art-critic and co-founder of Work Method, an agency based in Paris dedicated to the production of artistic projects. As member of the Trouble publishing committee, he regularly collaborates with the magazines Exit Express and Exit Book (Madrid). From 2001 to 2007 he co-ordinated the artistic projects of Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers. He organised the exhibitions Pick-Up en Public>, Paris 2004, Untouchable, The transparency Ideal in Villa Arson, Nice and the Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid, in 2006-2007, Jiri Kovanda Vs rest of the World in the agency gallery gb, Paris; De Appel, Asmterdam; Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, and has worked with Thomas Hirschhorn in the projects The 24h Foucault project and Musée Précaire Albinet. In 2007-2008 he is an invited curator at Centre d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie. He is a lecturer at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand and is part of the Madrid Abierto Commission.
Vit Havranek is a theorist and a producer established in Prague. Since 2002 he works as Project Manager for the contemporary art initiative tranzit /www.tranzit.org/ sponsored by the Erste Bank Group. He has worked as curator in Prague’s Municipal Gallery and National Gallery. He is a lecturer at the Prague College of Applied Arts. His most recent projects, some of which in collaboration with others, include A CDEFGHIJK MNOP STUV Z, part of Societe Anonyme, Le Plateau, Paris, 2007; tranzit – Auditorium, Stage Backstage, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 2006; I, series of exhibitions in three acts: Secession Vienna; Futura Prague; tranzit workshops Bratislava, 2006. He has written articles for several magazines, such as, among others, Springerin, Artist and Flash Art.
Ramon Parramon, directs and manages projects within the area of contemporary art and creation. Since 1998, he directs the art project IDENSITAT. In addition, he has organised several projects, such as Territorios Ocupados, 2000; Barcelonas, 1999 and Visiones Periféricas, 1994-97. He has given conferences and seminars at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Polytechnic of Milan, the University of Vigo, the University of Granada, the International University of Seville, the University of Barcelona and the Barcelona Higher College of Architecture. His work evolves with a marked interest towards interdisciplinary projects and the roles that art can play in specific socio-political contexts. He is part of the Madrid Abierto Commission.
María Inés Rodríguez is an exhibitions curator. She has organised exhibitions and research projects on the public space appropriation strategies in different contemporary art spaces which relate art, design, architecture and urban-planning. In 2004, she created Tropical paper editions to develop the editorial projects of artists. In 2007, she developed the projects Habitat/Variations, BAC Geneva, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Bermuda Triangle, Êcole de Beaux Arts de París, and was co-curator of MDE 07 Encuentro de Medellín. She is part of the Madrid Abierto Commission.
Arturo-Fito Rodríguez,member of Fundación Rodríguez, an artistic production collective that organises and co-ordinates projects associated with contemporary culture and new media, such as Tester and Intervenciones TV. He is part of the Madrid Abierto Commission.
Rocío Gracia is an art historian, member of RMS La Asociación, an agency established in 1998 in Madrid dedicated to organising, producing, promoting and disseminating contemporary art projects, and which has recently developed such projects as MadridProcesosRedes and ON SITE TOUR/TALK. The agency will shortly present a preview of Archivo VEO within the project Old News of CGAC and is preparing the exhibition Sur le dandysme for the Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo.
Jorge Díez, director of Madrid Abierto and co-director of the MBA in Cultural Management, Santillana/Salamanca University. In 2007 he has co-curated with José Roca (Colombia) Cart[ajena] public art project promoted by SEACEX, developed within the IV Congress of Spanish at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. He has lectured in the Spain-Japon Forum at Nagasaki, Actual experience in Public Art at the 16º Arts Symposium at Porto Alegre, Brasil and, Contexts and projects in Public Art. Ephemera models of intervention, at the MARCO.
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2008. ARTISTS / INTERVENTIONS / LINKS
Alicia Framis + Michael Lin Not for sale/No se vende www.aliciaframis.com Andreas Templin Hell is coming/World ends today www.andreas-templin.blogspot.com www.worldendstoday.wordpress.com
Dier + Noaz Estado de excepción www.vdier.com www.noazmadrid.blogspot.comwww,flirck.com/photos/noazmadrid/
Anno Dijkstra Proposal Nr. 19 + Gift www.annodijkstra.nl
Fernando Llanos Videointervenciones móviles en contextos urbanos específicos www.fllanos.com
Guillaume Ségur Welcome On Board
Fernando Prats Gran Sur www.fernandoprats.cl
Jota Castro No more no less + La hucha de los Incashttp://www.jotacastro.eu/
LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA) Explorando Usera www.lahostiafinearts.es
Santiago Cirugeda Construye tu casa en una azotea www.recetasurbanas.net
Todo por la Praxis Speculator + Empty World www.todoporlapraxis.com
Santiago Sierra Bandera negra de la república españolawww.santiago-sierra.com
Annamarie Ho + Inmi Lee La guerra es nuestra www.annamariecho.comwww.inmilee.net
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (technical data)
THE PROJECT IS MADE OF THREE STAGES
1. Exploration. September 2007Contact and coexistence in the participants’ area. For a weekend they will reside in a hotel in the area. Intensive exploration by the LHFA group, made up of about 40 artists.
2. Elaboration. September 2007 to February 2008Collective and individual work on the collected material. Confection of various artistic materials from texts, drawings or photographs to audiovisual and audio material, and a website of Exploring Usera.
3. Information. February 2008Opening of a “tourism office” of Usera Madrid with two possible locations demanded by Madrid Abierto to exhibit and give away cd’s, dvd’s, guides, maps, postcards, posters, stickers, pins, triptychs… Staff: Two assistants.
Guided visits during Madrid Abierto: dinner in a Colombian restaurant with guitar players, tea houses, Chinese video clubs, Andalusian tavern, razor-shells in the Galician, visit to a bullfighting circle…
Travel bag LHFA/MADRID ABIERTO.
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (Cv)
FUNDADO EN FOUNDED IN 2001 EN IN MADRID LIVES AND WORKS IN MADRIDARTISTIC COLLABORATION PROJECT WITH NO DEFINED MARGIN OR COLOUR.ON EACH OCCASION, IT CAN COMPRISE DIFFERENT PERSONS.WWW.LAHOSTIAFINEARTS.ESWORK EXPOSED IN MADRID ABIERTO: EXPLORANDO USERA
PERFORMANCES2007· Una performance con futuro. Performas. Centro de Arte Moderno. Madrid· Drawing Gibraltar. Off Limits. Madrid· Events: Videoperformances e intervenciones de videoperformances. Presented in EDITA 07, Punta Umbría and MAD 07 ACCIÓN, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid· Benidorm. Entresijos y Gallinejas. Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Barcelona
2006· Incidencia... Performas. Centro de Arte Moderno. Madrid· Benidorm. De Fijo a Móvil Madrid; EFTI. Galería Tercer Espacio. Madrid
2005· Picnic. The Art Palace. Madrid· Desfile. Ven y Vino. Madrid· Historias de Madrid. Madrid Abierto. Mention
2002· Spitting Image. El Papel del Papel. Galería Moriarty. Madrid· Passport. COSLART. Coslada. Madrid
2001· El baile de mi Tani. Érase una vez... Lavapiés. Madrid
1999· Venta El Tigre. Espacios Cruzados. Universidad Autónoma. Madrid· Venta El Tigre. La Ciudad y la Tierra. Cruce. Madrid
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (2008.01 / technical data)
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
1. 1000 posters 100x70 bus and Works advertisement.2. 1000 posters 70x50 Orcasur plants3. 1000 x12 postcards of Churches in Usera4. 1000x 15 calendars with small pictures of Usera5. Audio CD 6. DVD 7. 1000 A3 small stories.8. Other
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (published text)
“A more open Madrid is possible”. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA)
LaHostiaFineArts is defined as a collaboration artistic project without a defined margin or colour and, depending on the occasion, comprised of different persons. This time, about one hundred and fifteen persons explore the fragile reality of a space which, until now, only functioned conceptually as a brand. Impacting the strategies behind most cultural initiatives backed from the top as well as the convergence between municipal charm and international tourism, the poses of our leaders are unmasked.
We are currently witnessing the opening of Usera towards the centre: the building work to bury the M30, the cultural revitalisation of Legazpi, the extension of line 3 to Villaverde. In Explorando Usera we leave the shop window of Madrid’s Cultural Axis to go to the district of Usera, a border place and a social network of coexistence between three different cultures: Chinese, Spanish and Latin American, in a complex adaptation process.
A bus will act as a Usera tourism office in Madrid. Inside, visitors will be able to see the results of our exploration in all kinds of artistic material: texts, drawings, photographs and sonorous and audiovisual material. The bus makes guided tours to the district of Usera (see timetable in the Explorando Usera website).
On this occasion LHFA is composed by Fernando Baena, Rafael Burillo, Anna Gimein, Victor Sequí, Antonia Funes, Daniel Silvo, Mercedes Comendador, Alberto Cortés, Loreto Alonso, Joanna Speidel, Rafa Suárez, Marisa Marín, Beatriz Alegre, Marta Soul, Juan Alcón, Elisa Pérez-Cecilia, Jorge Portocarrero, Fernando Arrocha, Fernando Cubo, Miguel Lorente, Diego Ortiz, Sol Salcedo, Manolo Rufo, Luís Cobelo, Roberto Desiré, Iñaki Domingo, Agustín Martín Francés, Sebastián Navarro, Javier Esteban, Paula Anta, Carlos Sanva, Alejandra Duarte, Juan Santos, Campanilla, Cristina Busto, Alberto García, Pepe Murciego, Yolanda Pérez, Mercedes del Pico, Sylvie de Pauw, Pablo Romero, Rosa Poveda, Diego del Pozo, Susana Velasco, Roxana Popelka, Rafael Sánchez-Mateos, Raúl Alaejos, Lucía Alaejos, Susana García, Javier Lozano, Santiago Pardo, Pablo Fernández, Olga Fernández, Macarena Antolín, Lidia Sanz, Miren Doiz, Josemari Velasco Guinda, María Jesús Escudero, Alicia Wandelmer, Amanda Wandelmer, Mónica Gabriel y Galán, Javier González, David Ragcuter, Willy de Real, José Delgado, Fran Felipe, Miguel Cereceda, Rafa Lamata, Jaime Vallaure, Nieves Correa, Santiago Salvador, Max Salvador, Miguel Nava, Hilario Álvarez, Jesús Acevedo, Belén Cueto, Kamen Nedev, Julio Jara, Giusseppe Domínguez, Sebastián Navarro, Julián Vidal, Gonzalo Escarpa, Pacheco, Vritis, Javier Granado, Simon Hellmundt, Jesús Urceloy, Julio Reija, Nacho Fernández, Peru Saizprez, Javier Hernández, Vicente Botella, Carlos Aguirre, Malicia Cool
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (2007.10 / fieldwork)
CALL: Guide for tapas in Usera
Your lucky. You have been chosen to participate in the creation of a guide for tapas in Usera. Next 27th of October at 12am we will meet in… to explore this aspect of Usera.
What you have to do is to take two or three friends and walk around an area that has been assigned to you. You are a team leader and LHFA will give you 50 euros to spend on tapas. In exchange, you and your group will give us information on at least two different bars for each participant. For example: if you are three, you will tell us of six bars. And also take two pictures: an external one of the bar and another of its interior (product, atmosphere or architecture).
To make your job easier we will give you a form to fill in on each case, a list of bars, a map of the area and a LHFA card (we need you to send us a picture to make it or you can bring it to the meeting spot).
Please, answer swiftly announcing your participation because if not maybe we will have to look for someone else.
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2008. VIDEO OF THE EDITION
VIDEO OF THE 2008 MADRID ABIERTO EDITION: INTERVENTIONS + AUDIOVISUAL WORKS + SOUND WORKS
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). VENTA EL TIGRE, 1999
VENTA EL TIGRE, 1999Construcción de una chabola con material de desecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
La construcción servía de bar, punto de encuentro e información de las Jornadas de Intervención Espacios Cruzados. Venta el Tigre, situada frente al Rectorado, era regentada por los propios estudiantes de Historia del Arte. Contaba con una página web y web-cam activa. Fue clausurada por los autores en respeto a la censura de la Universidad de la obra de otro autor participante de la muestra.
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). BENIDORM, 2006
BENIDORM, 2006Collective action
The Benidorm brought together more than twenty video-artists in a piece of collective authorship. The process was simple: after arriving at Benidorm and having a first contact with the city, each video-artist recorded a one hour tape about those aspects of the city that were considered appropriate. These tapes or rough cuts were raffled off among the participants for each to edit the video between 2’ and 4’ aprox from someone else’s recording. With all the pieces a DVD was edited as a film.
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2008 / 2008.02.28. LATINOMADRID.COM. Usera parte de Madrid Abierto (LaHostiaFineArts)
** SEE THE ATTACHED PDF
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (theoretical data)
EXPLORING USERAA tourism office for Usera in MadridA more open Madrid is possible
The district of Usera was created in the last restructuring of the 28th of March 1987. Currently it’s a social framework where three distinguishable cultures coexist, Chinese, Latin and Spanish in a complex adjustment process.
The district is limited by the Praga bridge, Paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza, Fernández Ladreda square and highway 401 (Madrid-Ciudad Real). In this district you find lots of actions by the Neighbourhood Redesigning Programme, finished in 1989 and several residential developments. Currently we are experiencing an opening of Usera towards the city centre (works to burry the M30, cultural activation in the Legazpi area, expanding line 3 until Villaverde).
Its location as natural projection of the artistic axis Plaza de Castilla – Legazpi and its bordering situation limited by the river and, until not long ago, by the M30, highway 401 and the exit towards Toledo road, turn this district into an interesting place for artistic exploration.
In 2004, LHFA presented Madrid Abierto a project entitled Stories of Madrid 2nd part which received an honourable mention of the jury. In that project we intended to create an imaginary, local and sentimental geography full of historic, political and cultural references. When playing the first sequence of the movie Stories of Madrid, you could see a mobile installation – tableau mouvant – of social condemnation and reinterpretation of history and national culture. A double-decker bus would continuously drive around the Cibeles square informing, as if it were a tourist guide, about the political and historical implications of the area. In the convergence of local colour and international tourism appear spaces of ideological nature and the vacuous poses of political, entrepreneurialand cultural leaders are unveiled. It was, therefore, an ironic action that, while travelling around the “typical” Madrid, reflected on the veiled reality behind the local colour of the municipal policy.
Now, in 2007, we present our project, Exploring Usera, to Madrid Abierto once again, focussing again on the strategies that underlie the majority of cultural initiatives that are presented for high positions. We leave the showcase of the Plaza de Castilla – Legazpi axis, within which Madrid Abierto takes place, to go and explore the artistic and tourist possibilities of the district of Usera.
For Exploring Usera we took advantage of the district’s fiestas that were taking place in the first two weeks of September, to do some field work that will be developed and documented during the next semester. The goals are clear: open Madrid up creating new fluxes of information.
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (proposed location)
The district of Usera was created in the last restructuring of the 28th of March 1987. Currently it’s a social framework where three distinguishable cultures coexist, Chinese, Latin and Spanish in a complex adjustment process.
The district is limited by the Praga bridge, Paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza, Fernández Ladreda square and highway 401 (Madrid-Ciudad Real). In this district you find lots of actions by the Neighbourhood Redesigning Programme, finished in 1989 and several residential developments. Currently we are experiencing an opening of Usera towards the city centre (works to burry the M30, cultural activation in the Legazpi area, expanding line 3 until Villaverde).
Its location as natural projection of the artistic axis Plaza de Castilla – Legazpi and its bordering situation limited by the river and, until not long ago, by the M30, highway 401 and the exit towards Toledo road, turn this district into an interesting place for artistic exploration.
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2008. LaHostiaFineArts (LHFA). EXPLORANDO USERA (bus schedule)
DAYS:From 11 to 18 (7 days)
SCHEDULE:Every day at 12pm and 5pm, unless the 7th morning when the bus will leave at 13.30
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