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2009-2010. URBAN BUDDY SCHEME PROGRAMME 2009

INTERNATIONAL SEMINARPlace: La Casa EncendidaRonda de Valencia 2Dates: 5-8 February 2009

Madrid is growing in an unprecedented pace. Multi disciplinary initiatives are engaged in processes that formulate new possible relationships with the city and its inhabitants, this while revealing complex layers of information. Activities that aim to envision possible futures, beyond the current construction crisis, continue with impressive strength.

Madrid Abierto 2009-10 (previously an annual event of interventions in the city, now biennial) will host a seminar at La Casa Encendida 5-8 February 2009. This edition of Madrid Abierto sets out to investigate the potentials of collaborative socio-cultural and politically engaged work and how such work may perform as catalysts for change in the city. We will also try to activate processes that integrate new bodies of knowledge into the already existing.

The aims for these days are basically two. One is to connect the group of selected Madrid Abierto participants with people in Madrid, but also to keep connecting people in Madrid with each other. The resulting networks we aim to establish will hopefully serve as information base, forum for discussion and exchange in preparation for Madrid Abierto projects that are presented in February 2010.

In an effort to provide the artists visiting from abroad with tools that facilitate exchange with people in Madrid as well as an understanding and engagement with the city, locally based practitioners from various fields have been invited to present their views of Madrid. The seminar also includes a group of additional invited artists with an international profile who presents their context specific works carried out in other parts of the world as springboards for further discussion.

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PROGRAMME

Thursday 5 February6.00-6.15 pm. Welcome speech by Cecilia Andersson, Curator of Madrid Abierto and Jorge Díez, Director of Madrid Abierto.

6.30-7.15 pm.Brief introductions for all invited participants. Open to the public for participation.

7.15-21.00 h.Presentations by Andrés Jaque, Basurama, Ludotek and Wunderkammer. Chaired by Javier Duero.

Friday 6 February 6.00-6.45 pm.Presentations by Studio Kawamura Ganjavian, Uriel Fogué, C.A.S.I.T.A. y Exprimentolimon. Chaired by Luis Úrculo.

7.00-7.45 pm. Presentation by Kyong Park.

8.00-9.00 pm. Presentations by Apolonija Šušteršič + Meike Schalk, Alexander Gerdel y Teddy Cruz. Chaired by Kyong Park.

Saturday 7 February 12.00-2.30 om. One-on-one meeting expert meetings with inivted participants and the attending public.

6.00-6.45 pm. Presentation by International Festival.

7.00-7.45 pm. Presentations by Laurence Bonvin, Susanne Bosch y Josep-Maria Martín. Chaired by STEALTH.

8.00-9.00 pm. Presentations by Jean François Prost, Adriana Salazar y Gustavo Romano. Chaired by International Festival.

Sunday 8 February 6.00-6.45 pm. Presentation by STEALTH.

7.00-7.45 pm. Presentations by Pablo Valbuena, Iñaki Larrimbe y Lisa Cheung. Chaired by STEALTH.

8.00-9.00 pm. Final discussion with all the participants. Chaired by Cecilia Andersson.

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PARTICIPANTS

Lara Almárcegui (Spain). Her work often explores neglected or overlooked sites, carefully cataloguing and highlighting each location's tendency towards entropy. Her projects range from a guide to ruins in Holland to the display of materials used to construct the cities in which she shows. Her works are simple actions. Behind them are vast research processes.

Cecilia Andersson (Sweden) is curator and founder of Werk Ltd., a curator's studio in Stockholm. Her latest projects include Supersocial; a platform for events organised in different cities and On Cities; an exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm. Curator of Madrid Abierto 2009-10.

Basurama (Spain) focuses its action area in productive processes, the waste such processes generate and the creative possibilities brought about by this contemporary circumstance. It aims to study phenomena that are part of the massive production of real and virtual rubbish in the consumer society, providing new views that act as generators of thoughts and attitudes.

Laurence Bonvin (Switzerland) appraoch her subjects in so-called "documentary style" that implies an exploratory approach, close to objectivity and away from the spectacular. Main fields of exploration are suburban periphery, urban sprawling, the landscape and architecture. Research include discussions with sociologists, urban thinkers, architects and others involved in the shaping of urban contexts.

Susanne Bosch (Germany/United Kingdom) carries out site-specific, gallery and context-based installations, films, drawings, objects, publications and collaborative event-based projects. Her work is usually based on long-term research questions such as the role and potential of art in contested societies and situations.

C.A.S.I.T.A. -on this occasion Diego del Pozo, Eduardo Galvagni and Loreto Alonso- (Spain) carries out projects produced in collaborations that generate time for dialogue simultaneously as they take place in autonomous art spaces. Their current project ( http://www.ganarselavida.net/) observes the conditions of subjectivity and methods of production.

Lisa Cheung (Great Britain/Canada) is interested in public spaces and in creating environments where social exchange can occur. She is also interested in the temporary structures that constitutes urban landscape.  In recent projects she utilised gardening and cultivating plants as a point of interaction and participation.

Teddy Cruz (United States). The task of contemporary art and architecture today should be to reveal territorial and institutional conflicts as an operational tool to redefine practices of intervention in the public domain. No advances in design can occur without re-organizing existing political structures and economic resources. This in order to promote alternative systems of sociability and activism.

Jorge Díez (Spain), cultural director and curator. Director of Madrid Abierto and co-director of the MBA in Companies and Cultural Institutions of the Santillana/Salamanca University, curator of the 2008-09 program Espai 13 of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona.

Javier Duero (Spain) is an independent curator and cultural producer. He has developed projects and been the curator of exhibitions in different institutions and centres of national and international art. Currently he directs a research group on the cultural tissue of the region of Madrid for the CA2M in Móstoles. He is a member of the Pensart Cultura association.

EXPRIMENTOLIMON (Spain). A non-profit cultural association created with the aim to raise public awareness on the citizen's reading of and engagement with contemporary art. Through different workshops they attempt to make people contemplate and discuss cultural and social topics. Exprimentolimon is a multidisciplinary group involving psychologists, sociologists and art teachers.

Uriel Fogué (Spain) is an architect and teacher of the Architectonical, City and Territory Department at ESAYA (UEM). He is co-editor of the publication UHF. Most recent projects and works of his Agencia de Arquitectura (Agencia de Arquitectura (Architecture Agency) look at the "infra-structuring" of public space as an aesthetic policy practice concerning energy.

Alexander Gerdel (Venezuela). "Shanty" is a recurring topic in Gerdel's work, which resorts to this marginal and periphery architectonic figure - excluded from official history - to analyse the idiosyncrasy of a country and to confront it with its cultural identity.

International Festival (Sweden), initiated by architect Tor Lindstrand and choreographer Marten Spangberg, devises work in a range of cultural contexts and operate at the interface between architecture and performance, and between object and action. Their work facilitates a collective dialogue that aims to dissolve the line between spectator and viewer.

Andrés Jaque Architects (Spain) and the think tank linked to the Political Innovation Office explore the role architecture plays in building societies. They administer the political quality brand Arquitectura Parlamento (Parliament Architecture) and design political transparency plans; urban planning based on the word of mouth or social assemblies based on controversy, among others.    

Kawamura-Ganjavian (Spain). Architecture studio established by Key Portilla-Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian. They have worked in several countries in the fields of urbanism, architecture, stage design and product design. Their projects range from the scale of domestic objects to the territorial scale using a consistent language of concept-materialisation throughout these diverse endeavours. They are founding members of Studio Banana.

Iñaki Larrimbe (Spain) cultural activist. In the field of comic strips he co-founded and co-directs the magazine TMEO. He recently coordinated the device Inmersiones focused on artistic practices emerging from the Basque Country. As an artist his most recent works aim to belong to a "do it yourself" culture situated within the mechanisms of cultural industries.

Ludotek (Spain). Ludotek is a chronotopic, social and physical research lab.Ludotek proposes a critical exploration related to the leisure activities of the contemporary individual.Ludotek researches children's activities, produces tests with children based on video, ludograms, documents and play with children without providing any type of education.

Josep-Maria Martín (Spain). With a subjective and reflective will questions and criticises the reality upon which he decides to work. His pieces emphasise ideas about process, research, participation, involvement and negotiation so that the agents identified for each project become real generators of a common project.

Kyong Park (United States) is associate professor at University of California San Diego (from 2007), a co-curator for Shrinking Cities in Berlin (2002-2004), the founding director of International Center for Urban Ecology, Detroit (1999-2001), a curator of Kwangju Biennale, South Korea (1997), the founder/director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York (1982-1998).

Jean François Prost (Canada). Artist and architect whose work is based on initiating change in our perception and conception of the urban environment. Projects aim to activate uses in public spaces, contribute and begin to rebuild an urban imaginary, show, encourage visible acts of resistance, of sociability and signs of positive antagonism.

Gustavo Romano (Argentina) has carried out his work using different media: action art, installations, video, net art and photography. He favours the concept of "project" over work of art. He participated in the Havana Biennial and the Singapore Biennial, among others. Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 2006.

Adriana Salazar (Colombia) has observed how our behaviours become a sign of our subjectivity, and despite this they are not normally the object of our reflections. She has then gone to the production of machines that subvert the sense of our actions: doing actions clumsily, repetitively and out of context, turning the ordinary into something absurd.

STEALTH.unlimited -Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen- (Serbia/The Netherlands). Their practice spans urban research, spatial intervention and cultural activism. STEALTH considers space a tool and agency. Projects like Wild City (Belgrade) or Urban Catalyst (Amsterdam) involve diverse models of collaborative practicing and co-creation. Co-initiators of Lost Highway Expedition (Western Balkans) and co-curators of the Dutch pavilion, Venice (2008).

Apolonija Šušteršič + Meike Schalk (Germany/The Netherlands/Slovenia). Šušteršič's artistic research combines practice and theory to pursue methods for reflection in which the provocation of crisis leads to a scenario of alternatives and spaces for hope. Schalk is an architect and researcher, teaching the Critical Studies Studio at KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm, together with FATALE (Feminist Architecture Theory Analysis Laboratory Education).

Luis Úrculo (Spain), a graduate of the ETSAM and Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, carries out projects involving architecture, video, design and illustration, among others for Philippe Starck, Sybilla, Mansilla-Tuñón and BCG. He has exhibited his work recently in the 11th Biennial of Venice, FreshMadrid!, Gallery Dama Aflita (Porto) and JAE (Young Spanish Architects).

Pablo Valbuena (Spain),architect graduated at the ETSAM, he has been linked to the tangent spheres of art and architecture, developing spatial concepts applied to virtual environments, videogames, cinema and digital architecture. He currently develops art projects related to space, time and perception.

WUNDERKAMMER -bblab, G+W gálvez-wieczorek, MISC- (Spain).Team made up of three studios that together develop projects within the field of architecture, urban planning, landscaping, design and teaching. Their collaboration does not fit into a standard studio model, but rather as a laboratory that accommodates a constant exchange of ideas and experiences. 

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Director: Jorge DíezCurator: Cecilia AnderssonCoordination: RMS La Asociación

Organize: Asociación Cultural Madrid Abierto y La Casa EncendidaSponsor: Fundación Altadis, Área de Gobierno de las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo de la Comunidad de MadridCollaborator: Casa de América, ARCO, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Fundación Telefónica, Ministerio de Cultura, Radio 3, Canal Metro, Fundación Rodríguez-Centro Cultural Montehermoso

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. DISCUSSION PANELS PROGRAMME

Location: La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia n 2)Moderated by: Cecilia Andersson and Jorge Díez.

MEETING AND PRESENTATION OF THE INTERVENTIONS

4th of Februaryfrom 18.00 to 21.00h

Participating artists:18.00 to 18.30 Lara Almarcegui18.30 to 19.00 Laurence Bonvin19.00 to 19.30 Teddy Cruz19.30 to 20.00 Josep-Maria Martín20.00 to 20.30 Pablo Valbuena20.30 to 21.00 Debate and questions

5th of Februaryfrom 18.00 to 21.00h

Participating artists:18.00 to 18.30 Susanne Bosch18.30 to 19.00 Lisa Cheung19.00 to 19.30 Inaki Larrimbe19.30 to 20.00 Adaptive Actions20.00 a 20.30 Gustavo Romano20.30 a 21.00 Debate and questions

 

PRESENTATION AND SCREENING OF THE AUDIOVISUAL PIECES

6th of February 18.00h

Introduction of the audiovisual pieces selected in the 9th and 10th edition of Intervenciones.tv conducted by Fito Rodríguez.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-10. ARTISTS / INTERVENTIONS / LINKS

Laurence BonvinGhostownwww.laurencebonvin.com

Lisa CheungHuert-o-Buswww.lisacheung.com Iñaki LarrimbeUnofficial Tourismwww.web.jet.es

Josep-María MartínUna casa digestiva para Lavapiés / A digestive house for Lavapiéswww.josep-mariamartin.org

Adaptive ActionsCampo AA, Madrid / AA Camp, Madrid    www.adaptiveactions.net

Gustavo RomanoTime Notes: Oficina móvil / Time Notes: Mobile Officewww.gustavoromano.org

Pablo ValbuenaTorre / Tower Blockwww.pablovalbuena.com

Teddy CruzVallecas Abierto: ¿Cómo nos van a ayudar con su arte? / Vallecas Abierto: How is your art going to help us?estudioteddycruz.com/

Susanne BoschHucha de desesos: ¡Todos somos un barrio, movilízate!www.susannebosch.de    Lara AlmarceguiBajar al subterráneo recién excavado / Going down to the recently excavated underground passage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui (Cv)

ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, 1972 LIVES AND WORKS IN ROTTERDAMWORK EXPOSED IN MADRID ABIERTO: BAJAR AL SUBTERRÁNEO RECIÉN EXCAVADO / GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2008Ruins in Nederlands, Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.Bilbao Wastelands, Cabineta, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao.Ruinas de Holanda, Gallery Pepe Cobo, Madrid.La Box ENSBA, Bourges.

2007CGAC, Santiago de Compostela.

2004FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.

2003    INDEX The Swedish Art Foundation, Stockholm.Chantiers ouverts au public, Centre D’Art Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2009Radical Nature, Barbican Art Center, London. (by Francesco Manaconda)Athens Splendid Isolation, 2nd Athens Biennale (by Can Sophie Rabinovitz)Monument to transformation, Tranzit, Praha.Evento, Biennale de Bordeaux. (by Didier Faustino)3rd Riwaq Biennale : a geography of 50 villages , Ramallah. (by Khalil Rabah, Charles Esche, Reen Fuda)Utopia and Monument, Sterische Herbst, Graz. (by Sabine Breitwieser)Sloop gebouw SFF, Flux-s, Eindhoven (by Annie Fletcher)The Boundary Layer, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta. (by Catherine Dean)Liquid Times, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.

2008Annual Report, 7th Gwangju Biennale. (By Okwui Enwezor)Taipei Biennale 2008, (By Manray and Vasif Kortum).Matiere à Paysage, Biennale de la Seine, La Gallerie, Noissy-le-Sec.Greenwashing, Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities”, Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo, Turin. (by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna). Estratos, PAC Murcia. (Curated by Nicolas Bourrieau)Lofoten International Arts Festival, Svolvaer, Norge.

2007    Sharjah Art Biennial 8 : Still life, Art, Ecology  and Politics of Change, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates. (By Jonathan Watkins and Eva Schaer)Shelter, Haarderwijk. ( by Henk Slager)Mimetic, Chateau de Tanlay, Yonne Art Center. (curated by Jean Marc Huitorel)

2006Momentum, Festival of Nordic Art, Moss. (by Marc Sladen and Annete Kiefluk)27 Biennial of Sao Paulo, (by Rosa Martinez, Lisette Lagnado, A Pedrosa)Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London. (by Polly Staple)Biacs, Sevilla Biennale, Sevilla. (by Okwui Enwezor)Theater of Life, Galeria Civica d’arte Contemporanea, Trento ( by Fabio Cavaluzzi)

2005Public Act, Kunsthalle, Lund, Lund. (by Mats Stjernstedt)Le genie du lieu, Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon Delicious, Sint-Truiden. (by Luk Lambrecht)

2004    International Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool. (by Cuauthemoc Medina)VI Werkleitz Biennale, Common propierty, Halle, Deutschland.Le Prochaine et le Lontaine, Domein de Kerguennec, Bignan, France.LAB, Kröller Müller Museuma, Otterloo. (by Nathalie Zonneberg).Catastrofi Minime, Museo di Arti Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Cerdeña. 2003Idealism, De Appel, Amsterdam. Sin Título, Sala Montcada de la Caixa, Barcelona. (by Moritz Kung).1:1 x temps, quantités, proportions et fuites, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon. Dispersion, Bas Museum of Art, Miami.

2002Lost Past, Yeper. (by Moritz Kung)Bigtorino 2002, Torino Biennial. (by Pistolleto, Corinne Disirennes)

2000Scripted Spaces, Witte de With, Rotterdam. (by Bartomeu Mari)Espacio como Realidad, como Proyecto, Pontevedra Biennal (by Maria del Corral).

1999Stediljk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam.

PROJECTS IN PUBLIC SPACE2009Relocated houses, One Day Sculpture, Wellington, New Zealand. (by Claire Doherty).Scavo, PAV, Torino.

2006    Het braakliggend terrein van de Norfolkline open voor het publiek”, Den Haag.Comisioned by STROOM, Den Haag and SKOR, Amsterdam.

2003Allotment Gardens, Urban Festival, Zagreb.Een brakliggend terrein, Europoort Rotterdam, Rijksgebouwdienst, Rijkswaterstadt.

2002    Wastelands Tour, British Architectural Week, FACT, Liverpool.

2000Opening of a wasteland, Container Project Nicc, Bruxelles.

BIBLIOGRAPHY2009Pablo Llorca, Lara Almarcegui, Art Forum # February.Rachel Wolff “Runing over a new leaf”, Artnews, New York # april.

2008Katherina Deschka-Hoeck: Brachland der Freiheit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, #27 Oktober. Tijs van den Boomen, Ruine als dankbaar object, NRC, Rotterdam # 10 June.Jean-Max Colard : Lara Almarcegui, Ruines in Nederland, Inrocks # 656.Pei-Tsen: Dig into the enviroment, Lara Almarcegui  ARTCO, Taipei # july.L’art, le territoire, espace public, urbaine, Veduta, Biennale de Lyon, Ed Certu.

2007Tom Morton: City Limits: Lara Almarcegui, FRIEZE pages 124-127 # Summer 20.Anna minton, Down to a fine art, The Guardian, London, 10th January.Francis Alys: Artists Favourites, Spike Art # 11, Wien.Ecology, Luxury and Degradation, Edited by Lattitudes, Uovo # 14, Torino.With/Without, Cultures of Space in the Middle east” Edited by Antonia Carver, Shumon Basar and Markus Miessen, New York.Design and Landscape for people, Edited by Clare Cumberlidge and Lucy Musgrave. Thames & Hudson.

2006Land Art. A Cultural Ecology Hand Book, Edited by Max Andrews. RSA, London.

2005Jean Marc Huitorel, Entropic promise: Lara Almarcegui, Art Press February. Binna Choi, A Statute of the inhabitable, Reader: Contributions to a topical artistic discourse, De Appel.

2004Ole Bouman: The emancipation of nowhere land, Pasajes de Arquitectura y crítica, Madrid, # February.Lara Almarcegui, l’idealisme en déconstruction, Bénédicte Ramade. L’œil, Paris summer. 2003Carole Smidt, La Force de l’abandone, A+ architecture, urbanism, design and art. # agust-september, Bruxelles.Thorsten Smiededrecht, Art and Architecture a reciprocal relationship?, Architectural Design, London  # may/June. 2002Santiago Cirugeda: Lara arreglatodo, Subrosa, editions la Letre Volé, Bruxelles.

2001Anne Pontégnie, Lara Almarcegui takes apart the gallery, Artforum digital, May.

WRITINGS1999Wastelands Map Amsterdam, a guide to the empty sites of the city, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam.

2006Guide of wastelands Sao Paulo, Edited by Biennial Sao Paulo.

2007Guide to Al Khan, An empty village in the city of Sharjah, Edited by Sharjah Art Biennial. 2008Ruins in the Netherlands, XIX- XX, Episode publishers, Rotterdam.

2009Ruins in Bourgogne, XIX-XXI, Le Press du Reel, Dijon.

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo (Arnheem).FRAC Piamonte, Torino.Les Abattoirs, Toulousse.FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.FRAC Alsace, Sélestat.Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona.MUSAC, León.CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela.Marcelino Botin Foundation, Santander.La Panera Art Cenrtre, Lérida.CAM Foundation.Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu City.

PRIZES2007UNESCO art prize. 2006Sculpture art prize given by the Madrid Municipality.

GUEST TEACHER AND WOKSHOPSStudio visits as guest teacher in De Ateliers, postgraduate art program, Amsterdam; Dutch Art Institute, postgraduate art program, Enschede.  Workshops at Piet Zwart Intitute, postgraduate art program, Rotterdam; Art in Public space master of Art School, Geneve; Umea Art School, Umea; Minerva Art Academy, Groningen; Annecy Art School; Centro Atlántico de Arte Contemporáneo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Art School of Universidad Europea, Madrid; Cuenca Art School; Hangar, Barcelona; La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Graduation jury at Art in Public Space, La Cambre Art School, Brusels, Design of Public Space, Lyon Art School.

LECTURESArchitecture master, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam; Faculty of Architecture, Madrid; Faculty of Architecture, International University Catalonia, Barcelona; Architects College, Toledo; Architects College, Madrid;  Architectural School, American University, Beirut; Arts School of  Metz, Angoulleme; Dijon and Nancy; Tate Britain, London; Bluecoats, Liverpool; Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes; Centre de Art Parc St Leger, Pouges les Eaux; BLOK, Zagreb; Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Etablissement, Brusels; Reina Sofía Art Centre, Madrid; Palaise des Beaux Arts, Brusels; TENT, Rotterdam; London School of Economics, London; Art Schools of Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Florianólpolis and Puerto Alegre; Faculty of Arts,Taipei University; master of Fine Arts, Massey Univesiy, Wellington;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE (location)

Parking C/ SerranoGuided tours: days 28th of february, 28th of march,25th of april, 30th of may, 27th of june and 25th of julySchedule: 12.00 h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE (published text)

 With this project, Lara Almarcegui organizes visits to the excavations being made under Calle Serrano to construct parking lots. As the works and the 15 meter deep excavation is in full process, the walls of the excavation are not covered with concrete, making the different layers of stone of Madrid’s subsoil visible. For a moment the public is able to observe the city as it is beneath the ground.

Constituted by multiple layers, Madrid has a complex strata of subsoil on different levels. There are tunnels and vaults that support the subway and train infrastructures, water pipes, drains and sewer system, telephone wires, electricity and Internet, subterranean rivers, cellars, parking lots and bunkers. Going down to the recently excavated underground passage by the Serrano parking lots will not only provide the occasion to come closer to the underground infrastructure of Madrid; it will also be a visit to that which is primitive and natural in the city. The project engages with an understanding of Madrid’s physical reality, rock-earth, before it became a city. During this descent into the passage, the negative subconscious of the city shall be experienced. That is to say, instead of building, to descend in order to learn more, but also, to brutally and simply do the opposite of what architecture does.

The action consists in inviting the public to watch a space in process that changes every week and throughout its complete transformation. The work machinery functions constantly, stopping only one day a week, on Sundays, day when the visits take place- one Sunday each month until June.

The details and schedule for the guided tours are available at the MADRID ABIERTO information center, placed, during February, on the Paseo de Recoletos, and also on the website www.madridabierto.com. Registration can be done by sending an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. from Monday to Friday from 10.00pm to 18.00 pm. Applications are accepted until full capacity is reached (there is a limit of 20 people). It is indispensable to receive a confirmation from MADRID ABIERTO in order to complete the tour.

The visit is made with a guide that takes the group to the excavation and explains the works of engineering, the function of the machinery and its progress, but most of all, he interprets and presents the geology of the layers of materials that appear during the excavation.

The works are being made in order to build three parking lots above the future tunnel that will link the Atocha and Chamartin train stations. This tunnel will be 7km long and constructed during the next two years. Both projects are part of a plan to redesign Calle Serrano, including the transformation of the public thoroughfare, the construction of parking lots and a tunnel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE (2009.12 / theoretical data)

 Thanks to the Going down to the recently excavated tunnel project, Lara Almarcegui organizes visits to the excavations that are being made under the street of Serrano to construct parking lots. As the works and excavation – which is 15 meters deep- will be in full process, the walls of the excavation will not be covered with concrete and the different layers of stone of Madrid’s subsoil will be visible. For a moment we will be able see the city just as it is beneath the ground.

Madrid has a complex framework in its subsoil made of multiple layers, at different levels. There are tunnels and spaces that correspond to the subway and train infrastructures, water pipes, drains and sewer system, telephone wires, lighting and Internet, subterranean rivers, cellars, parking lots and bunkers. Going down to the recently excavated tunnel of the Serrano parking lots will be an occasion to get closer to other infrastructure tunnels of Madrid; but it will also be a visit to that which is primitive and natural in Madrid.

The project deals with the understanding of Madrid’s physical reality, rock-earth, before becoming a city. In this journey into the tunnel, the negative subconscious of the city shall be experienced. Instead of building, it would be interesting to submerge one self in order to learn but also to simply and brutally do the opposite to what architecture does.

The action will consist in inviting the public to watch a space in process that changes every week and will be completely transformed. The machinery at work is constantly functioning and it only stops one day a week, on Sundays. The visits to the excavation will take place on Sundays from the 4th to the 28th of February.

Details and the schedule for the visits will be available at the Information Point of Madrid Abierto placed in xxxx. Registration shall be made there or sending an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. until the capacity is fulfilled (the capacity will be limited and the registration shall be made 48 hours before the visit. It will be necessary to receive confirmation from Madrid Abierto).

The visit will be made with a guide that will go down to the excavation with the group, and will explain the works of engineering, the function of the machinery and its progress, but most of all, he will interpret and present the geology of the stratums of materials that will be appearing in the excavation.

The works are being made in order to build three parking lots above the future tunnel that will link the Atocha and Chamartin train stations, this tunnel will be 7km long and will be constructed along the next two years. Both projects are part of a plan to redesign the street of Serrano, it includes the transformation of the public thoroughfare, the construction of parking lots and a tunnel.

The excavation that we will visit, will be the third parking lot, which is beneath Serrano, between the street of Jorge Juan and the Plaza de la Independencia or Puerta de Alcalá. Pedestrians will be able to access through Serrano and vehicles will find entrance in Jorge Juan, the street of Alcala and Salustiano Olozaga.

(December 2009)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. DISCUSSION PANELS / 4 feb 2010 (video)

4th of february 20106pm to 9pm. PRESENTATION OF THE INTERVENTIONS

1Presented and moderated by Cecilia Andersson and Jorge Díez (00:00 - 00:35)

Lara Almarcegui, Going down to the recently excavated underground passage (00:35 - 23:05)

              

 

2Lara Almarcegui, Going down to the recently excavated underground passage (00:00 - 08:30)

Laurence Bonvin, Ghostown(08.30 - 23:05)

          

 

3Laurence Bonvin, Ghostown(00:00 - 18:06)

Pablo Valbuena, Tower block(18:06 - 23:05)

        

 

4Pablo Valbuena, Tower block(00:00 - 14:57)

 Questions(14:57 - 23:05)

 

5Questions(00:00 - 01.23)

 

6Josep-Maria Martín, A digestive house to Lavapiés(00:00 - 23:05)

 

7Josep-Maria Martín, A digestive house fot Lavapiés (00:00 - 16.20)

Teddy Cruz, Vallecas Abierto: How is you art going to help us?(16.20 - 23:05)

 

8Teddy Cruz, Vallecas Abierto: How is you art going to help us?(00:00 - 23:05)

 

9Teddy Cruz, Vallecas Abierto: How is you art going to help us?(00:00 - 02:04)

Debate and questions(02:04 - 15:35)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. MESAS DEBATE / 04, 05 feb 2010 (imágenes)

2009-2010. MESAS DEBATE / 04, 05 feb 2010 (imágenes)

  

MEETING AND PRESENTATION OF THE INTERVENTIONS. LA CASA ENCENDIDA. 4th and 5th of FEBRUARY 2010

     

        

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010 / 2010.02.28. RN3. Fluido Rosa (Lara Almarcegui)

Name Play Size Duration
FLUIDO ROSA. Lara Almarcegui (28-feb-10) I
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FLUIDO ROSA. Lara Almarcegui (28-feb-10) II
57.7 MB 1:03:00 min

Nos acercaremos a conocer la obra del fotógrafo francés Antoine D'agata. Entraremos en el Espacio Emergente creado por Unicaja en Málaga. Hablaremos con la artista Gloria Martín. En Rotterdam nos encontraremos con Lara Almarcegui. Exploramos las de Redes de Arte. En páginas centrales realizaremos un primer acercamiento a la realidad de la Electrónica Suramericana y en portada escuchamos lo nuevo de Komatsu (28/02/10).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE (2010.02 / technical data / risk prevention)

2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE (2010.02 / technical data / risk prevention)

 

RISKS EVALUATION

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RISK PREVENTION INFORMATIVE CARD

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EMERGENCY PLAN

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 ** OPEN THE ATTACHED PDF TO SEE THE COMPLETE DOCUMENT

 (FEBRUARY 2010)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. DEMOLICIONES, 1999

2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. DEMOLICIONES, 1999

 

 

DEMOLICIONES, 1999RotterdamInvitación a ver demoliciones

(Saint Nazaire, 2002 y Rennes 2003)La acción consistía en invitar al público a presenciar una demolición. Permitía así ver un lugar de su ciudad en un momento de cambio en una situación temporal y única. Este aspecto de invitar al público a ver un lugar en proceso de la ciudad se parece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. CAVAR,1998

2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. CAVAR,1998

 

CAVAR,1998    Amsterdam

(Stockholm 2003 and Sao Paolo 2006) Consisted of digging a hole for as much time as possible to learn as much as one can about a place. It had a lot to do with finding out more about the layers of the earth and history under a city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED UNDERGROUND PASSAGE (2009.12 / fieldwork)

(DECEMBER 2009)

 

APARCAMIENTO 1Situado entre las calles Hermanos Bécquer y Marqués de Villamejor. Cuenta con un total de 1.118 plazas de aparcamiento: 24 destinadas a discapacitados, 293 de rotación y 825 para residentes.

APARCAMIENTO 2Situado entre las calles Ortega y Gasset y Hermosilla. Cuenta con un total de 1.153 plazas de aparcamiento: 24 destinadas a discapacitados, 384 de rotación y 769 para residentes. APARCAMIENTO 3Situado entre la calle Jorge Juan y la Plaza de la Independencia. Cuenta con un total de 1.026 plazas de aparcamiento: 24 destinadas a discapacitados, 270 de rotación y 756 para residentes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED TUNNEL (theoretical and visual data)

2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED TUNNEL (theoretical and visual data)

 

 

GOING DOWN TO THE RECENTLY EXCAVATED TUNNEL

The project consists of organising visits to the tunnel that will be excavated 40 meters under the street of Serrano. As the tunnel hasn’t been finished and it won’t have been covered with concrete, the rocky layers of Madrid’s subsoil will be visible. The city, just as it truly is underground.

DETAILS

The visit will take place in the new 7km long tunnel of the AVE that will be excavated during the next two years under Serrano to link Atocha with Chamartin.

The Tunnel boring machines are always active and only stop once a week, therefore visits will take place that same day.

The entrance to the tunnel will be as close to our axis as possible, because there are entrances near Colon and Puerta de Alcalá, but I will have to adapt to the companies’ works, for until we don’t speak to them we won’t be able to define where the entrance will be; But the application as well as its advertising will take place in the Information Service of Madrid Abierto.

Several details such as how many people shall participate and how many visits will take place every day, timetable, the route and otherwise, will depend on the companies and City Hall; I have to adapt to them and I can’t define them yet. The project is unfinished, due to its need to adapt to the works’ reality. We will need a guide that must know as much about Geology and this specific tunnel as possible- we will also collaborate with companies to locate him.

TOPICS

The project has to do with the physical reality of the city, earth, rock, before being a city.

I have always been curious about the many layers that Madrid contains underground (metro, trains, telephone, piping, underground rivers, parking lots, bunkers). The descent into this new underground tunnel is a visit to that which is primitive and to the nature that constitutes the city, but also a rapprochement to Madrid’s other underground facilities.

The project offers the experience of visiting a unique place in process that only exists temporarily and will transform.

The tunnel of Serrano is an important engineering work for the city; a project in the middle of downtown Madrid, using the latest technologies, decentralization…

In the descent to the underground we have the negative side of the city. It’s subconscious. I find very interesting an action that, instead of building, descents, in order to learn more but also to do, simply and brutally, the opposite to what architects do.

Plano de todo el túnel proyectado.

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

The railroad tunnel that, under Serrano, will link the Atocha and Chamartin stations will be destined to give service to High Velocity trains.

The works will last two years. They will take place at the same time as the remodelling works of Serrano, done by the City Hall, which include a parking lot: Serranopark.

The tunnel is a project done by Adif (Administrator of Rail Road Infrastructures), Organism that depends on public funding.

The Council of Ministers awarded the works to the UTE, a part of Dragados, FCC Constructions, Copisa and Tecsa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Lara Almarcegui. BAJAR AL TÚNEL RECIÉN EXCAVADO (technical data)

 

CALENDARIO

-    Sé que la tuneladora para solo una vez por semana;

-    Entonces bajariamos una vez a la semana ;

-    Estimo, aunque aún no lo sé que ese día fuera domingo ;

-    Entonces bajariamos al túnel :

.    Domingo 7 Febrero.    Domingo 14 Febrero.    Domingo 21 Febrero.    Domingo 28 Febrero

PREPARACIÓN

-    Iré a Madrid cuando sea necesario para hablar con encargados del tunnel para decidir juntos el plan de trabajo, las condiciones etc…-    Estimo estar en las dos primeras bajadas. -  Este calendario y todos los planes de preparación de viajes y bajadas al tunel y mi partcipación son completamente flexibles: me adpataré por supuesto a lo que la tuneladora necesite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2009-2010. Laurence Bonvin. GHOSTOWN (images)

2009-2010. Laurence Bonvin. GHOSTOWN (images)

 PRINTED PHOTOGRAPHS

      

 

.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................EXHIBITION AT THE ESPACIO 28001 (INFOMAB)

     

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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