PM WDA - Siemens Stiftung

Press release
Munich, 2014-02-27
CHANGING PLACES / ESPACIOS REVELADOS
Transformation of empty buildings through artistic interventions in urban
environments, March 27 – April 6, 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact
The project CHANGING PLACES / ESPACIOS REVELADOS uses empty
buildings in Buenos Aires for artistic interventions to highlight social
cohesion in the megacity. With their works, artists from Argentina, other
Latin American countries and Europe explore the types of communities
that can arise through a city’s “blind spots.” Changing places provides
new space for art and opens up new spatial experience for city residents.
Press:
Karolin Timm-Wachter
Siemens Stiftung
Phone: +49 / 89 / 54 04 87-1 11
[email protected]
Project Manager:
Joachim Gerstmeier
Siemens Stiftung
Phone: +49 / 89 / 54 04 87-3 16
[email protected]
Artists:
Magdalena Arau, Beatriz Catani,
Tim Etchells, William Forsythe,
Hugo Glendinning, Julian Hetzel,
Federico León, MAMAZA,
Marialena Marouda, Leonardo
Moreira, Rabih Mroué, Mariano
Pensotti, La Ribot, SIMA,
Alejandro Tantanian, Vivi Tellas,
Mariana Tirantte
Curators:
Joachim Gerstmeier, Gabriela
Ricardes
Partners:
Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma
de Buenos Aires, Ministerio de
Cultura, El Cultural San Martín,
Subsecretaría de Desarrollo
Urbano y Vivienda
in collaboration with: Fundación
M.I.R.A., Acumar, Edificio
Tornquist, Palacio Reconquista,
Galería Güemes, Edificio Bencich,
Edificio Lanusse, Banco
Hipotecario, Secretaría Legal y
Técnica de la Nación,
Estacionamiento Cuadras, Cine
Teatro Dante, Museo de la Ciudad,
Casa del Sur, Barraca Peña,
Departamento de Artes del
Movimiento del Instituto
Universitario Nacional de Arte,
Centro Rural de Arte
Further information:
www.siemensstiftung.org/changing-places
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Abandoned residential and commercial buildings, imposing empty banks, a
railroad bridge over the Riachuelo, and terraces high above the city, as well as
walls and facades in public places are converted into a stage by outstanding
theater and performance artists. CHANGING PLACES / ESPACIOS
REVELADOS addresses the issue of local transformation in two respects: first,
the project transforms unused places in a city through artistic ideas; and
second, it mobilizes residents and artists to leave their familiar places to view
the city with new eyes. To that end, shuttle buses for visitors connect the
banking district in the city center with the La Boca district. The project draws
another map of the city with new input and access to the idea of public space,
which many people appear to have long abandoned.
The public presentation of artistic interventions is part of a comprehensive work
process initiated by Siemens Stiftung in close partnership with the Ministerio de
Cultura, El Cultural San Martín, Subsecretaría de Desarollo Urbano, and a
number of other institutions, building owners, and artists.
The artists have been asked to respond to specific places and urban situations
with their own proposals. They are doing so by assimilating the visible and
invisible traces a city leaves behind in the course of its development. The
artists shift time and space, and evoke the imagination, doubt, and hope found
in the people and the city in which their work is embedded. They occupy places
with words, send messages into the public space, reflect the conflicting dreams
and possibilities of a city or find their themes in the void that points to what is
missing and what demands presence. Places need people who perceive and
use them. For that reason, various artistic works invite people in Buenos Aires
to contribute to the composition, to bring, for instance, a bank hall to life or
transform an abandoned building into a green oasis with their plants and thus
create a social space of encounter.
Societies need places where they can demonstrate cohesion and where fears
and desires can be expressed. Changing places can change perspectives and
this can provide the impulse for changes in modes of thinking and behaviour.
That is the reason why Siemens Stiftung initiates international projects in the
area of Culture. The project in Buenos Aires marks the beginning of an international series that aims to foster artistic pertinacity as well as creative powers
and sense of responsibility in the city.
Siemens Stiftung
Kaiserstrasse 16
80801 Munich
Germany
Phone: +49 / 89 / 54 04 87-0
Fax: +49 / 89 / 54 04 87-4 40
www.siemens-stiftung.org
Information number: SST201401
Program
Zona Microcentro
Mariana Tirantte / Mariano Pensotti (AR) „Hoy es el día“
Installation
La Ribot (ES) „Laughing Hole“
Performance and installation
Rabih Mroué (LB) „Pixelated Revolution“
Video work
Magdalena Arau (AR) „La invención del barco es la invención del
naufragio. Museo del Presente“
Installation
Edificio Tornquist, Bartolomé Mitre 523
William Forsythe (USA/DE) „Scattered Crowd“
Installation
William Forsythe (USA/DE) „Solo“ & „Lectures from Improvisation
Technologies“
Video works
Palacio Reconquista, Reconquista 46
SIMA (AR) „Resonador Blindado“
Sound installation and concert
Palacio Reconquista, Reconquista 46
Leonardo Moreira (BR) „Do Lugar Onde Estou Já Fui Embora (From
where I was I‘ve already left)
Performative installation
Magdalena Arau (AR) „La invención del barco es la invención del
naufragio. Museo del Pasado“
Installation
Museo de la Ciudad, Alsina 421
Alejandro Tantanian (AR) „Bencich“
City walk
Edificio Bencich (Terraza), Av. Roque Saenz Peña 615
Magdalena Arau (AR) „La invención del barco es la invención del
naufragio. Museo del Pasado. Museo del Paisaje“
Installation
Galería Güemes (Mirador), Florida 165
Julian Hetzel (NL / DE) „I‘M HERE“
Installation
Edificio Lanusse, San Martín 236
Tim Etchells (UK) „Some Imperatives“
Intervention in public space
Pared 1: San Martín 280
Pared 2: Bartolomé Mitre 357
Pared 3: Av. Almirante Brown 1330
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Tim Etchells (UK) „Neon Work“
Intervention in public space
Palacio Municipal del Gobierno de la Ciudad, Bolivar 1
Zona Sur
MAMAZA (CH/GR/IL/DE) „Garden State“
Choreographic community garden
Marialena Marouda (GR): Walking in the City: on the Poetics of Space
City walk in the frame of “Garden State”
Rabih Mroué (LB) „Old House“
Video work
Casa del Sur, Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1621
Vivi Tellas (AR) „Museo de la Paloma“
Installation
Magdalena Arau (AR) „La invención del barco es la invención del
naufragio. Museo Invisible“
Installation
Barraca Peña, Av. Pedro de Mendoza 3003
Beatriz Catani (AR) „Infierno“
Performance
Puente Ferroviario, (frente a Barraca Peña)
Tim Etchells / Hugo Glendinning (UK / BE) „Empty Stages“
Exhibitition
Cine Teatro Dante, Almirante Brown 1239
Tim Etchells „Some Imperatives“ (UK)
Intervention in pubic ara
¿Tienes una idea para mejorar tu barrio?
Workshop
La Usina del Arte
Agustín Caffarena 1, Actividad especial
extra location:
Federico León (AR) „La última película“
Installation
Estacionamiento Cuadra (ex cine 9 de julio), Bauness 2533
Bus shuttle: Departure Casa de la Cultura, Av. de Mayo 575
Transfer every 30 minutes between Microcentro and La Boca-Barracas
Admission is free.
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