Context European cities had many empty spaces, abandoned or neglected, that could be bring back to life by citizens’ initiatives through community management. In some cases, this initiatives have been an innovative example of how public space could be managed and created. However, in many cities these citizen initiatives face diverse barriers that make difficult […]
Living as Form provides a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art. The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists’ projects in a large-scale survey exhibition inside the historic Essex Street Market […]
Hacked Toaster with different “clavelian”* motives that are roasted -as an estampita- on bread. The Clavellian toaster is a piece made for the exhibition AUTOMENAJE (word made up by Auto=self-tribute and Menaje=household) curated by Paco Clavel in Valdepeñas, his hometown, for the summer of 2012. * from carnation (the surname of the […]
Basurama participated in the exhibition EXPO CRUZ curated by Paco Clavel in the traditional celebration of the “Cruces de Mayo” in Pastrana (Guadalajara). Basurama intervened one of the wooden crosses that were distributed to the 10 artists taking part in the exhibition. We try to make the cross usefull, to give it another propouse. We […]
TrashLation is an artistic project produced in conjunction with ARTEX program. The purpose of the program is to research and reflect about the concept of consumption-identity and waste. The purpose of this project is to visualize at world level, how much waste each and every one of us produce regardless our social class, country of origin or age; […]
We were at Lourdes School working with some of their students for the collective construction of a vertical garden and orchar. We built it from packaging materials such as plastic boxes and plastic bottles. The objective was to build the vertical garden as a prototype, so the students could work and study it during the […]
We were invited by Sabine Reich, co-director of the festival, to curate the zaragozan participation in Das Detroit Projekt. We curated together with Paul Domela (Liverpool) and Marta Keil (Gliwice). THE CITY MUST BE OURS! A massive crisis is hitting Europe. We have to overcome it. We’ve heard both things so many times they don’t […]
See many more pics. We were invited to participate in the exhibition “Learning from Las Cuencas” (Cuencas are the mining areas of Asturias, northern Spain) a research project on the cultural landscape of the Asturian coalfields. Place: Laboral, centro de arte y creación industrial. Gijón, Asturias. Date: 27.09.13-23.02.14 Other participating artists: Óscar de Ávila, Basurama, […]
More photos of the project Pictures made by the orphanage’s children Contex In the gubernamental orphanage of Kibebe Tsehay, in Sidist Kilo, live children from 0 to 8 years old. There, these children study, sleep, eat, tidy up and play together. The place has a large outdoor space with hardly any trees and wherein at […]
More pictures Context Mafalala is one of the most populars neighborhoods of Maputo, Moçambique. Celebrities as the footbal player Eusebio (a.k.a. the Black Panter), Samora Machel (first president of the independent Moçambique) or the poes Noémia de Sousa and José Craveirinha grew up in this neighborhood. During the foundation of Maputo (eighteenth century) native Mozambicans […]