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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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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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2007. DISCUSSION PANELS PROGRAMME

Location: La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia nº 2, Madrid)Date: 1st and 2nd of FebruaryTime: From 18:00 to 21:00 hours

In the Madrid Abierto 2006, under this same title, we organised a number of debate tables which, on the one hand, included the presentation of the projects produced and, on the other, an analysis and debate on various artistic initiatives on the public space. Due to the positive result achieved with this approach, conscious of the need to continue to explore other avenues and projects, we were taken to continue with the experience, also in collaboration with La Casa Encendida.

From an artistic perspective, the programmes and strategies applied to the city and the territory are very different, each with varying degrees of emphasis on experimen¬tation, multidiscipline, process and interaction with the public. But in all of them underlies the need to illustrate, make visible and open to critical participation the different symbolic, cultural and social aspects that they articulate and oppose one another in the public space. This aspect of many contemporary artistic projects tack¬les the complex task of intervening in a saturated and hyper-aestheticised space with few fissures. The voluntary temporary and ephemeral nature of these artistic prac¬tices also plays a negative role in the dissemination and development possibilities of many interesting proposals, which would require different and longer timeframes both for the investigation and production of these projects as well as for their subse¬quent development and convergence with other projects and with other social and cultural agents. However, or precisely owing to this, it is absolutely necessary to open new areas that give way to other forms of production and dissemination, as well as to generate information and collaboration networks for this type of artistic practices.In this respect, the issues and questions raised by Ramon Parramon, the previous edition’s coordinator of the debate tables, when addressing and analysing the differ¬ent invited experiences, still remain in force and have opened an area for debate that we want to continue exploring with projects like Madrid Procesos, inSite Tijuana-San Diego, Tester, Cambio de Sentido or Idensitat.

PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECTS EXHIBITED IN MADRID ABIERTO 07. Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd of February, from 18:00 to 19:30 hours.

Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes. Curator. Jorge Díez. Director.

You don’t love me yet by Johanna BillingFernando (We were young. Full of life. None of us prepared to die) by the collective Discoteca Flaming StarI Lay My Ear To Furious Latin by Ben FrostRezos/Prayers by Dora GarcíaGuantanamera by Alonso Gil and Francis GomilaAlarm Bike by Leopold KesslerCuando los perros ladran el camello los ignora by Oswaldo Maciáproyecto_nexus* by the collective [nexus*] art groupOff by Dan PerjovschiFollow Me by Susan PhilipszPictures by Mandla ReuterThe Missed Concert by Annika StrömShort Circuit/Cortocircuito by Dirk Vollenbroich

INTERVENTIONS AND ROUND TABLESModerator: Rocío Gracia. Art Historian. Member of RMS La Asociación.

Thursday 1st of February, from 19:30 to 21:00 hours.

Dionisio Cañas, poet and artist, ex professor at the City University of New York. He organised the collective art exhibition Cambio de Sentido with the group ESTRUJENBAK in a rural village with less than five hundred inhabitants. He works on participative public art and videopoetry projects.

José Iges. Artist and composer. Director of Ars Sonora (RNE, Radio Clásica). Curator of sonorous art and sonorous installations’ exhibitions, such as MASE (2006), Vostell y La Música (2002), Resonancias (2000) and el espacio del sonido/el tiempo de la Mirada (1999).

Tania Ragasol, curator of exhibitions. Associate curator of inSite_05, a network of collaborations between art institutions and cultural agents geared towards creating public experiences in the border area Tijuana-San Diego. Collaborator and copy editor of cultural publications.

Arturo Rodríguez, member of Fundación Rodríguez, an artistic production collective that organises and co-ordinates projects related with contemporary culture and new media. Tester.

Friday 2nd of February, from 19:30 to 21:00 hours.

Ramon Parramon, director of Idensitat and co-director of the master in Design and Public Space, Elisava-Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

María Inés Rodríguez, exhibitions curator. She has organised exhibitions and investigation projects on appropriation of public space strategies in different contemporary art spaces that link art, design, architecture and urbanism. In 2004 she created Tropical paper editions to develop editorial projects for artists. She is preparing the projects Habitat/Variations, BAC Ginebra, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Bermuda Triangle and Êcole de Beaux Arts de París for 2007. She is co-curator of MDE 07 Encuentro de Medellín.

Daniel Villegas, artist and member of the management board of AVAM. Madrid Procesos.

Ali Ganjavian and Key Portilla-Kawamura, artist and architect. Locutorio Colón.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2006. DISCUSSION PANELS PROGRAMME

 Place: La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia nº2)Dates: 2 y 3 de febreroHour: De 18.00 a 21.00 h.

EXCHANGES: ARTISTIC EXCHANGES AND STRATEGIES IN THE PUBLIC AREA

The aim of these sessions organised as project exchanges is to analyse and debate the different paths taken and ones to be taken regarding art which influences the public area through experiences that make certain programmes and specific strategies possible. The city and the land in general are today areas that attract growing interest and a desire to expand and experiment new forms through multiple projects which belong to and are considered as possible in the world of art. The complexity of influencing public areas shows the need to take to take a multidisciplinary approach that can incorporate new aspects of interaction with the public, that can incite a critical spirit, that can propose new meanings to the public area by using existing infrastructures, than wan open work processes that can be retaken by other people involved in the transformation of the social space, that can be turned into an active element of the construction and comprehension of its surrounding area.

The transient and fugacious nature with which most artistic practices are promoted show its two sides: on the one hand the fact that all interventions don’t have a permanent effect on he urban landscape and is thus a transitory experience, but on the other hand, it can be taken as yet another event in the urban landscape, or the city museum, a stage dominated by the incredibly high consumption rate of all that is new. Competition between cities foments the proliferation of cultural events which should be consumed in a short time. This leads to the need to continuously programme and often forget to reflect on the project or the design of the strategies in the long term. It is necessary to ensure that cultural policies promote proposals that foment production, diffusion and articulation of networks. A balanced mix if these ingredients may very well contribute to the progressive development of projects with attainable objectives and which could have a more consolidated effect.

Where possible, and where the artistic projects taking place in the public space can be moved between the “processing” and the “tuning” or a wide range of intermediary nuances, some times promoted by the artists themselves, and on other occasions by the existence or creation of programmes that promote them. In this sense in which art acquires a relevant role, and gives us enough room to suggest different subjects for debate, a series of questions which can be viewed or analysed based on the different experiences of the participants is proposed, and thus open the debate.

Consolidation of programmes: What factors influence continuity, growth or the disappearance of a public art programme?

Circuits and specialisation: Can projects be adapted to any context from which they are invited to participate in? Under what conditions do these practices require a level of implication and connection with the specific context? What strategies can be articulated to improve on the biennial model?

Networks: How can one foment network structures with enable feedback from experience?

Participation, art: New production formats, presentation and diffusion. Dissolution/Integration of cultural practices in community strategies. Can they be looked at from the tools and concepts of art to activate cultural participation and production?

Authorship: Does authorship become less strong or disappear when the work is based on cooperative projects?

Cooperative projects with people who work in other disciplines, or when the artists uses strategies of anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, journalist, documentary maker… is it necessary to define the differentiating role when certain practices are proposed in the institution of art? Is it relevant to cause these methodological confusions, this dissolution of the purest artistic practise? What roles do the organiser, artist, mediator, producer of projects acquire?

Art & city: What does public art give the city?

 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND 6PM TO 9PM

Presentation of the Madrid Abierto 06 projectsSelection carried out by Eva González-Sancho, director of FRAC Bourgogne.

Accidentes Urbanos.Virginia Corda and Maria Paula Doberti

Speakhere¡ Nicole Cousino with the cooperation of Chris Vecchio

Post it. Chus García-Fraile

Pulsing Path-ambiguous vision. Gustav Hellberg

Blend out. Lorma Marti

Ouroboros. Wilfredo Prieto

Remolino. Tere Recarens

Translucid View. Arnoud Schuurman

Reality Soundtrack. Tao G.Vrhovec

Locutorio Colón. Maki Portilla-Kawamura, Key Portilla-Kawamura, Tadanori Yamaguchi and Ali Ganjavian

Talks and round tablesJorge Díez: Director of Madrid Abierto. From 2004 to 2005 he was General Secretary of Cultural Management and Promotion of Castilla-La Mancha (Secretario General de Dirección y Promoción Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha).

El Perro: Group of visual artists (Pablo España, Iván López y Ramón Mateos). From 1997 to 2002 they organised the public art exhibition, Capital Confort in Alcorcon. Took part in the organisation of MAD 03 - Arte público.

Theo Tegelaers: Art critic and organiser. He has organised numerous public art projects. Currently Artistic Director for De Appel, Amsterdam.

 

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3RD 6PM TO 9PM

Talks and round tablesBartolomeo Pietromarchi: Art critic and exhibition organiser. General Secretary of the Fondazione Olivetti. Author of the investigation project Trans:it. Moving Culture trough Europe.

Cecilia Andersson: Critic and exhibition organiser. Director and founder of Werk, a curatorial agency and projects promoter, located in Liverpool and Stockholm. Coordinator of the project, Urban Workshop in Liverpool.

Guillaume Desanges: Critic and exhibition organiser. Art projects coordinator at Les Laboratories d’Aubervilliers. Ile-de-France.

Santiago Cirugeda: Architect. Carries out subversive art project in different areas of the urban environment. He is currently working on self-construction projects in various Spanish cities, in which groups of citizens decide to create their own urban public spaces.

Maribel Doménech / Emilio Martínez: Artists. Both are professors at the Sculpturing Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Members of the Plataforma Salvem el Cabanyal and the management team of the public art project Portes Obertes taking place in the district of El Cabanyal in Valencia.

Javier Avila: Art critic and exhibition organiser. He has promoted and managed numerous editions of the Periferias project in the city of Gijón.

Coordination of the Madrid Abierto 05 programme of debates and exchanges: Ramon Parramon. Director of Idensitat and co-director of the Master’s course in Design and Public Space, Elisava-Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

 

 

 

 

 

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