Universidad Javeriana dof Bogotá Summer Workshop at Medialab-Prado, Madrid. Co-directed by together with PKMN & Zuloark. Battle Royale is the name of a film directed by Takeshi Kitano on 2000 presenting an apocaliptic japanese society in which population control becomes a public affair. In the film a group of students nominated as the worst class […]
Click in here to see more pictures of the Project.. Collaborative educational project between Basurama and Escuela Ideo. Radically change the school yard as an educational strategy. ¿What could be done with a giant pipe and a 25.000l deposit in the yard of an school? Escuela Ideo is an educative center provisionally located in an office […]
See many more pictures The bubble installed in the foyer of the national gallery is not an actual “site-specific” installation, but simply the first place to inflate the “Ambulant Inflatable” we created together with the “Village Unhu” people: Misheck Masamvu, Gareth Nyandoro and George. Since you had to access it from outside the gallery, it […]
More pictures here. A whirlpool of waste emerges in the middle of an ephemeral city. An invented city to consume: Music, drinks, friends, drugs… RoskildeFestival is a great music festival that congregates more than 125.000 people during 9 days offering more than 100 concerts and activities, a great event of masses. Instead of hiding and making the […]
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 […]