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Project description Ceci n’est pas une voiture.

Collaborative project by: Idensitat. www.idensitat.net / Can Xalant Centre de Creació i Pensament Contemporani de Mataró. www.canxalant.org / ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies. www.acvic.org

Curator: Martí Peran

Selection Committee ID#6 Mataró-Vic: Jesús Carrillo, Pep Dardanyà, Pilar Bonet, Jordi Canudas, Martí Peran, Cristina Riera and Ramon Parramon

Ceci n’est pas une voiture. Nomadic devices loom around the museum is born as a documentation and reflection exercise on the construction of mobile devices as elements of an expanded concept of the Museum or going as far as being an alternative to it.
The prospect of subverting the logic of the Museum by building mobile devices has a long tradition. Since Marcel Duchamp’s famous suitcase (Boîte-en-valise, 1941) or Roger Filliou’s hat (Galerie Légitime, 1962), the initiatives to move the aesthetic experience beyond the limits of the museum have multiplied. However, this same tradition of “travelling art” (Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, 1976) has also been the object of a recent co-optation by the conventional Museum. Indeed, in the last decade we have witnessed a proliferation of attempts to expand the perimeter of the traditional Museum with portable structures (the temporary pavilions of the Serpentine Gallery since 2000, the project for the Temporary Guggenheim Tokyo in 2001 or, more eloquent if anything, the recent Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid in 2008). Faced with this invasive phenomenon, Ceci n’est pas une voiture aims at documenting and reflecting on those other initiatives which, circulating in the public space, collide with these conventional museum prostheses; to the extent that instead of extending the square meters of the museum, they reformulate the functions of the exhibition display as a nomadic platform nurturing direct and self-managed participation, development of social research and dissemination of educational experiences. In other words, if the temporary pavilions of the conventional museum seek to expand the extent and space of presence in order to reinforce the expansion of the museum’s narrative models, the nomadic devices that loom around the museum would be those who, traveling through the same social landscape, experiment with ways of understanding the exhibition cell as a space for reception and creation of plural and critical narratives against the hegemonic model.

Ceci n’est pas une voiture is conceived as a work in progress that combines processes of research, workshops, production and dissemination. With this objective, it is carried out as a series of activities each of which is designed as a Parking episode.

DO La Más Bella is a participatory publishing project that is carried out in various times and spaces, using the following process: free distribution of 3,000 paper bags in shops and information centres in Priorat, of three types of bags that question us on our degree of belonging to the region.

You can join the game proposed by La + Bella following the instructions in the bag. If so, the bag can be converted into an envelope where you can put a sample of Priorat, i.e: whatever you do, find, produce, pick up, and that, in your opinion, is related to the Priorat.

The bag, along with the sample, is to be sent anonymously to the address provided, free of charge. The received samples will be used to edit a publication. The format of the publication is still to be determined.

At www.lamasbella.org you can find an updated list of establishments –shops and information centres- where you can get the bags.

Sports, Creativity and Social Inclusion. Open call results

In July 2010, the Consejo Superior de Deportes [CSD] (Sports Council) in collaboration with Idensitat [iD #6] announced a call for interdisciplinary projects promoting the relationship between sport and the social, cultural and creative areas.

The call was open to two categories, Project Laboratory and Project Bank, and addressed three types of projects:
1. Projects about physical activity and sports promoted by organisations, associations, sports clubs, local councils, regional councils, and autonomic goverments mainly concerned with social inclusion as well as social intervention through sport in disadvantaged zones.
2. Creative projects proceeding from different disciplines (artists, architects, designers, etc.) that organise or promote projects based on sporting subjects and with special orientation towar ds social questions.
3. Hybrid projects arising from the relationship between creators and organisations, sports clubs, social educators, etc.; proposing collaborative work and concerning subjects of inclusion or social intervention through this relationship between creativity and sport.

Between July and October 2010, Idensitat received 179 proposals for the category of Project Laboratory, and 80 for the Project Bank category.

A selection committee, formed by six specialists in creative fields and sports, was in charge for the selection of the proposals that would be developed in differents contexts of Spain. The committee met in Madrid, on November 30, 2010 and observed the quality of the proposals, which in majority brought creative and experimental solutions to the proposed framework.

SELECTED PROJECTS

iD Barrio BCN [La Marina]
Information + Data

IDENSITAT, in collaboration with the Unió d'Entitats de la Marina announces an open call for participation in the iD Barrio BCN [La Marina]|Information + Data workshop carried out by the collective Hackitectura [José Pérez de Lama, Sergio Moreno Páez, Pablo de Soto, Laura Hernández Andrade, Jaime Díez Honrado, Ale González]. With the participation of Núria Burguillos, Xavi Camino, Colectivo Connectats, Francesc Magrinyà, Oriol Granados, Ramon Parramon, Martí Peran, Elisenda Tomàs, Mireia Tortades, for Can Clos and Sant Cristòfol (La SEAT) neighborhoods of La Marina, Barcelona.

Open call for participation in the workshop
November 22-27, 2010
Time: from10.00 to 14.00 h. and 16.00 to 20.00 h.
Place: Unió d’Entitats de la Marina, Mare de Déu de Port, 363
Entrance from Parc de Can Sabater, 08038 Barcelona

Registration: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The deadline for registration is November 16, 2010.

iD Barrio is a project that acts as an observatory of territory and a laboratory for the development of creative processes related to certain ultra-local social activities in some microcontexts of contemporary urban concentrations. The project aims at stimulating collective creativity and cultural exchange as a tool for the development and transformation of territory through creative processes where artistic practices and local social space converge. Analyzing to understand the dynamics of space, visualizing to interpret various mechanisms operating in these places, planning to draw new productive dynamics, collaborating to enhance and multiply creative capacities. The project proposes the creation of a network based on a two-phase structure: Collective workshop and a Travelling exhibition.
iD Barrio aims at bringing together artistic and other processes. It seeks for transdisciplinarity and social participation and looks for breaches in order to generate opportunities for creation, through collective methodologies, new references in the territory where it takes place.

iD Barrio BCN [La Marina]
Information + Data. Can Clos and Sant Cristòfol (La SEAT) neighborhoods of La Marina, Barcelona.
Collective workshop carried out by Hackitectura, with the participation of Núria Burguillos, Xavi Camino, Col•lectiu Connectats, Francesc Magrinyà, Oriol Granados, Ramon Parramon, Martí Peran, Elisenda Tomàs, Mireia Tortades.

The workshop proposes exploring the territory, critical cartography, data visualization, processing of information and collective creation. It proposes to find narratives that relate to the history of the neighborhood and locate data related to the place. The workshop focuses on two areas of La Marina-Zona Franca, close to each other but significantly different in their urban, historical or social context and the use of public space. The methodology consists in carrying out an intensive fieldwork in this area, during which a number of individuals and entities will participate and provide references and data to understand the place. The purpose of the workshop is to work with oral and visual stories and data in order to build tools for their representation, visualization and to carry out specific actions. Participants will develop their proposals through a tutorial led by Hackitectura, with the support of the Idensitat team and contributions of all participants.

Objectives
- To link up different spaces of the city by creating temporary circuits and practices of urban appropriation and visualization.
- To promote the development of creative projects that work with local actions in the specific context of Can Clos and SEAT.
- To generate proposals and visualize data based on the direct contact with the neighborhoods.
- To creat an archive of projects with the proposals and facilitate the development of some of these projects in the territory.

Who can participate: The workshop is open to artists, designers, architects, educators, cultural managers, sociocultural coordinators, socialworkers, students in sociology, anthropology, art, design, architecture, education, as well as to a public that lives and participates in neighbourhood projects.

iD Barrio São Paulo [SP.01]
Seminar + Workshops + Touring Device. 13-17 october at Centro Cultural da Espanha em São Paulo and Santo Amaro and Bom Retiro neighborhoods.
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iD Barrio SP.01. Seminar
Social creativity, collective action and artistic practices.

October 13 & 14, 2010. From 18:00 to 22:00h. With the participation of: Rita Alves, Lilian Amaral, Viviana Bravo, André Costa, Rogerio da Costa, Renato Cymbalista, Democracia, Domènec, Colectivo EIA - Experiência Imersiva Ambiental, Jamac, Fadhila Mammar, Colectivo Imargem, Ramon Parramon.

iD Barrio SP.01. Workshops
Mapping, exploring, visualizing and activating. Santo Amaro and Bom Retiro areas, São Paulo.

13-17 october, 2010. From 10:00 to 17:00h. Collective workhop led by Pablo España [Democracia], Domènec, Colectivo EIA - Experiência Imersiva Ambiental, Colectivo Imargem, Lilian Amaral [Museu Aberto], Ramon Parramon [Idensitat].

Registration: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The deadline for registration in the seminar and workshop is October 8.

iD Barrio SP.01 is a project that acts as an observatory of territory and a laboratory for the development of creative processes related to certain ultra-local social activities in some microcontexts of contemporary urban concentrations. The project aims at stimulating collective creativity and cultural exchange as a tool for the development and transformation of territory through creative processes where artistic practices and local social space converge. Analyzing to understand the dynamics of space, visualizing to interpret various mechanisms operating in these places, planning to draw new productive dynamics, collaborating to enhance and multiply creative capacities.
The project proposes the creation of a network based on a three-phase structure: International seminar, Collective workshop and a Travelling exhibition.

iD Barrio is based on the idea that art can be an innovative factor in the processes of transformation of the city, since it is capable of surfacing latent social creativity and developing it though collective actions. This affirmation raises a series of questions that will be discussed in the context of the seminar and the workshops:

How is art related to processes of urban and social transformation? What role and function have processes of participation? How can social creativity be triggered in a particular environment? In what way can creative processes have an effect on a local environment? How can one become involved in the sphere of collective action? Is the transformation of the city open to projects? What relationship exists between cultural policies and territorial planning? Can local contexts be part of the global cultural speech?

Objetives
- To link up different spaces of the city by creating temporary circuits and practices of urban appropriation and visualization.
- To promote the development of creative projects that work with local actions in the specific context of Santo Amaro and Bom Retiro neighborhoods of São Paulo.
- To encourage the development of projects that facillitate external contacts and implications.
- To promote dialogue between local and international experiences that suggest working through artistic practice, socio-cultural mediation, critical analysis for the development of networked platforms and activation of social creativity.

Who can participate: The seminar and workshop are open to artists, designers, architects, educators, cultural managers, sociocultural coordinators, socialworkers, students in sociology, anthropology, art, design, architecture, education, as well as to a public that lives and participates in neighbourhood projects.

Consejo Superior de Deportes + Idensitat Sport, arts and social inclusion. Call for projects

The Consejo Superior de Deportes [CSD] (Sports Council) in collaboration with Idensitat [ID #6] announces a call for interdisciplinary projects promoting the relationship between sport and the social, cultural and creative areas.  [Download rules in pdf]

We are witnessing the development of what might be considered as a “field” of social commitment in sports that did not exist until just a few years ago. This commitment takes on, as a main feature, topics of social exclusion as well as the integration of immigrant populations.

The increasing prominence of activities and sports projects directed at these sectors leads us to research experiences in what we might call " good practices " to build an archive as a resource for learning, debating, and to build relationships among sport, social interventions, and creative practices (art, design, architecture, etc.). We believe that sport interacting with these fields can support processes of social cohesion, especially when it helps to create places, or to strengthen already existing venues, where peer groups can meet and communicate.. In this way, sport can become an interesting source of social capital and an element for the creation of different social networks (contacts, friends, friendship, prestige, etc.).

Within creative practices, sport is often treated as circumstantial or thematic, but some examine certain social dynamics as a basis for work regarding relationships and shared creativity. Sport enhances these kinds of relationships and connections. Sports activities usually facilitate contact and relationships between individuals and groups of different backgrounds without the protocols demanded in other types of activities. Bringing both aspects together, we believe, can help develop projects to stimulate social creativity and an exchange of values particular to every field of action in certain local contexts .

The aim of this call for projects is to identify existing work, to generate an archive of " good practices ", disseminate them, and to support the creation of new experiences which connect sport to other disciplines. The call is aimed at the wide range of organisers, creators and cultural agents who operate throughout Spain.

Types of Projects at which this call is aimed
1-Projects about physical activity and sports promoted by organisations, associations, sports clubs, local councils, regional councils, autonomic goverments mainly concerned with social inclusion as well as social intervention through sport in disadvantaged zones.
2-Creative projects proceeding from different disciplines (artists, architects, designers, etc.) that organise or promote projects based on sporting subjects and with special orientation towards social questions.
3-Hybrid projects arising from the relationship between creators and organisations, sports clubs, social educators, etc.; proposing collaborative work and concerning subjects of inclusion or social intervention through this relationship between creativity and sport.

iD#5 Seized Cities. Exhibition. La Capella, Barcelona

15 July - 12 September

Idensitat is an art project developed in various cities with the intention of providing the tools to coordinate creative projects that influence the public sphere in relation to the region. Establishing a production and research network, this platform acts within the field of artistic creation in order to experiment with new forms of involvement and interaction in different social settings.

This exhibition brings together several projects that were part of the fifth edition of Idensitat. They were developed in Calaf, Manresa, Mataró, Sondika, El Priorat and Barcelona. The interventions that took place in each of these cities included creative activities of varying size and scale; each with their own unique targets but also aimed at influencing aspects that deal with collective actions that take place locally. On the whole, they represent artistic experiences that seek specific negotiation elements within local contexts, striving for a mutual exchange of knowledge while remaining open to the creative potential of every participant.

A series of activities were carried out parallel to these actions, including workshops, public interventions (in both rural and urban spaces), energising dynamics, the creation of forums to debate local and guest proposals for action; past experience was discussed and we managed to expose some of the conflict latent in the public sphere. In this exhibition, this collection of projects created in different places and at different times aspires to a way of relating to one another and to turn this space-time into processes, a common ground. More and more, Idensitat is becoming a keystone in the network of project relations, local areas and people that consider creative dynamics a way to intervene and affect social spaces.

For this reason, “iD#5: Ciutats Intervingudes” presents artists and collective projects as well as mediating projects and production spaces as a whole. They make up a network that allows for the coexistence of a variety of creative processes with a similar transformative drive, influencing towns, neighbourhoods and cities little by little, while creating pressure on the future of cultural politics.

Exhibition participants

Basurama, Can Xalant – Rogelio López Cuenca, consonni (Xelo Bosch and Cyrille Larpenteur), Democracia, Domènec, Walter Gam, Horitzó TV (Clara Garí, Hugo Barbosa, Pamela Gallo, Alex Muñoz, Félix Pérez-Hita), Verónica Luyo-María Celeste Venica, Priorat Centre d’Art, Patrick Radiate, Anna Recasens, Tomás Ruiz Rivas, VideoDiàlegs (Oriol Fontdevila, Laia Ramos, Xavier Gil Dalmau)

iD Barrio Calaf / Barcelona

Jardins Temporals a Calaf project workshop coordinated by: Josep-Maria Martín in collaboration with Jean Nicolas Fauchille
iD Barri Raval project workshop with KUNSTrePUBLIK (Markus Lohmann, Harry Sachs, Philip Horst, Daniel Seiple, Matthias Einhoff)
iD Barri Traces of Autism project workshop (Jozua Zaagman, Maartje Dros, Jacqueline Schoemaker)

Participants and creators of the work carried out in the workshops

Juan Aizpitarte, Dimas Agudo, Maria Aparicio, Mauricio Aquilar, Elena Azzeddin, Aida Bañeras, Iria Beltrán, Eduardo Blanco, Emanuela Bove, Naomi Bueno, Maria Calvo, Verónica Cantero, Guillermo Cantillo, Marta Carrasco, Maria Cedo, Banu Çiçek, Ana Cortes, Adrián Crescini, Angelica Cuadros, Marcos Cuesta, Arturo Dávila, Urko Diaz, Aida Elias, Abigail Empez, Laura Font, Julia Adam, Eva Garrido, Aloma Giralt, Eva Goenaga, Berta González, Paula González, Evanguelina Guerra, Fernando Hidalgo, Irune Jiménez, Arantza Lacasa, Laura Lara, Carolina Lopez, Lorena Lozano, Maria Lucas, Andreas Manenti, Maria del Mar Roldán, Ester Márquez, Andres Martínez, Maria Martínez, Carolina Mila, Daniela Monterrossa, Yera Moreno, Belen Orta, Carla Pagluica, Jesús Palomino, David Peña, Toledo Pérez, Maria Pia, Marta Raventos, Natalia Royo Parache, Lore Pardón, Marc Piqué, Antoni Puig, Mercè Ramos, Romina Rebolledo, Inés Salpicó, Laia Segura, Anita Serrano, Liron Shua, Alexandra Souza, Amalia Speratti, Eulàlia Suñé, Arena Tarres, Gracia Teixidor, Maria Terkenli, Gaizka Ugalde, Meg Vandezande, Noelia Varela, Maria Valldeperez, Guillem Vilamala, Ivonne Villamil, Raquel Villar, Madalena Yglesias, Estíbaliz Yuguero, Erika Yurre.

Idensitat is supported by Manresa City Hall, Calaf City Hall, the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Culture and Communication Media and Barcelona Provincial Council. Projects developed in collaboration with Can Xalant (Centre for Contemporary Creation and Investigation in Mataró), Priorat Centre d’Art, Prat de Llobregat City Hall, Consonni (Sondika), La Capella (Barcelona) and Hangar (Barcelona, member of Xarxaprod, network of creative production centres). In collaboration with Artwork’09 (Catalan Ministry of Labour, European Social Fund and Barcelona Provincial Council), Goethe Institute Barcelona, Consulate of the Netherlands, Elisava School of Design.

Idensitat#5
Management: Ramon Parramon
Team: Maral Mikirditsian | Quim Moya | Nuria Parés | Anna Recasens | Eva Quintana
Design and graphics: Jang Sub Lee

Selection committee: Francesca Comisso (independent curator, member of the a.titolo collective and professor at the Turin Polytechnic University)| Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ (directors of WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart) | Daniel García Andújar (artist) | Ramon Parramon (artist and director of Idensitat) | Martí Peran (independent curator and full professor at the University of Barcelona).

Priorat Centre d'Art presents the audio-visual rhizome PCd'A de grisú Dialéctico and Oscar Hidalgo, and the publication " Somebody once told me.... I remember ... Priorat today..." published after the project "Stories and Places" by the collective Sans Façon for Idensitat#4. HOme/Away. Art and creation in social space.

Saturday, 7th of August  8,30pm

Ca la Càndia. Plaza de Misa, 4 El Masroig

Piano concert by * Dzovinar Mgrditchian * Armenian-Lebanese pianist. In her compositions she works in collaboration with artists from different media???? and starting from texts or specific contexts. She has taken part in theatrical plays and animations, such as Asphaltu by Pascal Corm and Stambol by Ghassan Halwanai. she has been researching Armenian folk music, collaborating with the Conservatoire Gomidas of Ereván to create an archive of West Armenian popular songs. Recently, she collaborated with an arts project in Beirut, to develop a photographic and audio archive about immigrant workers in the Lebanon.

This project has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of local organisations and educational centres of the area: Centre Quim Soler [El Molar], Consell Regulador de la DO Montsant, Biblioteca Municipal i Comarcal Salvador Estrem i Fa [Falset], Esplai de la gent gran de Falset, Centre de Formació Ocupacional [Falset], Centre de Recursos de Cornudella de Montsant, IES Priorat [Falset], SES Montsant [Cornudella de Montsant], CEIP Dr. Piñol i Aguadé [Cornudella de Montsant], CEIP Sant Isidre [Capçanes], CEIP Sant Feliu [Els Guiamets], CEIP Josep Riba [La Serra d'Almos], CEIP Onze de Setembre [El Masroig], CEIP Rossend Giol [Porrera], CEIP Montsant [Ulldemolins], CEIP Garbí [Poboleda], CEIP El Castell [Cabacés], CEIP Montsant [La Bisbal de Falset], CEIP Anicet Villar [Marçà], Celler El Masroig [El Masroig] i Celler Aibar [Darmós]. [download publication pdf]

iD#5 Manresa | Cal Gras
Art and Propaganda. Do It Yourself strategies and practices.
Workshop by Democracia in collaboration with Eva Soto.

Topics
• Agitation and propaganda in an age of media monopolies.
• Public art, successes and failures from the counter-monument to work with communities.
• Taking the stage. “Do it yourself” (punk). Faced with contemporary art as propaganda of cultural policies, thinking art as communicative action. Strategies and tactics for intervening critically in public spaces.

IDENSITAT, in collaboration with Ajuntament de Manresa and Cal Gras opens an open call for participation in the workshop ART AND PROPAGANDA. DO IT YOURSELF STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES carried out by DEMOCRACIA in collaboration with EVA SOTO.

Open call for participation in the workshop
From 17 till 19 July 2010
Place: Avinyó. Alberg de cultura Cal Gras. C. Francesc Macià, 1, 08279 Avinyó (Barcelona)

The workshop
When Chuck D, the vocalist of the hip-hop band declared “We’re media hijackers” or “rap is black CNN”, it was very easy to relate his words to the theories of Antonio Gramsci on the subject of “counter hegemony”. In fact, when Chuck D added that “he who controls culture controls the people”, he was merely summarizing Gramsci’s starting point: the ruling classes’ power over the proletariat and all subjugated classes in a capitalist production system is not just the result of control by the State’s repressive apparatus. This power is essentially the result of the cultural “hegemony” that the ruling classes manage to exercise over subjugated classes, through control of the education system and media.
If a counter hegemony implied the creation of a force capable of transforming subjective consciousnesses and of fostering intellectual and moral reform, raising the issue of certain conflicts in civil society, seeking to generate discursive moments which - however alternative or sporadic they might be - could, in conjunction, lead to a discourse that challenges apparently indestructible cornerstones of the dominant system, then we might say that Public enemy’s praxis is none other than this.
Today, the desire to agitate and attract publicity characteristic of avant-garde movements has been continued through new forms associated with popular culture and the “do-it-yourself” ideology proposed by the punk movement.

HOME AWAY. Art in social space
ISBN: 9788461369331

This book summarizes the production and documentation projects carried out in the 4th edition of Idensitat between 2007 and 2009 including a series of dialogs among different artists, educators, cultural managers and experts on related subjects.
Home / Away is the title of Idensitat’s fourth edition, which gathered together a series of projects carried out in middle-sized towns (Manresa and Mataró) and small towns in rural areas (Calaf and Priorat). These four towns belong respectively to the outskirts of Barcelona and its extended metropolitan area, and hence they are within the urban territory whose capital is Barcelona.

This edition also included a number of projects which had taken part in Idensitat as documentary projects, since they had previously been carried out in other places such as Tirana, Johannesbourg, Liverpool, New York, Rome, Seville and Bilbao.

All the projects that took part in this edition (iD#4) are shown as study cases exemplifying  types of creative practices developed in specific places to explore the relationship between the local fact and the circumstances of the visitor who analyses, represents or gets involved in the context.

Texts and dialogues: Lucía Acedo, Atsuko Arai, Fernanda Arandia, Katleen Arthern, Doug Ashford, Monika Bálint, Llorenç Bonet, Deborah Cullen, Santiago Cirugeda, Pedro Dias, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Oriol Fontdevila, Paul Galindo, Daniel García Andújar, Ophélie Herranz, Terry Kurgan, Verónica Mansilla, Gaspar Maza, Dara McGrath, Carlos Mínguez, Naeem Mohaiemen, Alicia Murría, Carme Nogueira, Ramon Parramon, Roc Parés, Pripublikarrak, Recetas Urbanas, Octavi Rofes, Stefano Romano, Jaron Rowan, Kenneth Russo, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, David Sandoval, Sans Façon, Joana Sarmiento, Sinapsis, Katlin Soós, Stalker, Rosanna Vitiello, Visible Collective, What If: Projects ltd

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