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Research workshop on artistic practice and its social projection
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In our second year of activities we proposed, from Trama, a research workshop on artistic practice and its social scope. The proposal -conveniently ambiguous- wanted to offer the artistic community the possibility of testing projects whose conceptual or thematic axes question the raison díetre of an artistic practice as fragile and uncertain as the Argentine one in late 2001. The selected artists were: Sonia Abián (Posadas, Misiones), Claudia del Río (Rosario, Santa Fe), Santiago Pagés de Arteaga, Sebastián Friedman, Florencia Blanco, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Eduardo Molinari, Rocío Pérez Armendáriz, Diana Aisenberg, Leonello Zambón y Lucas Ferrari from Buenos Aires. The jury was made up by sociologist Christian Ferrer, Gabriela Massuh, cultural programming art director of the Instituto Goethe and Eva Grinstein, art critic. These artists worked and compared their ideas as a group during two months, at the end of which they presented the projects carried out in the public cycle of debates "Networks, contexts, territories" late in November 2001 in the Buenos Aires Instituto Goethe's auditorium. Ade Darmawan (Jakarta, Indonesia), Andreas Siekmann (Berlin, Germany), Dennis Adams (U,S,A,) and Oscar Brahim (Buenos Aires) were the invited artists. Reinaldo Laddaga, (Rosario/U.S.A.), Charles Esche (United Kingdom / Denmark), and Christian Ferrer (Buenos Aires), were the theoreticians who joined the group for the final debate cycle. The artists confronted the projects developed
during the workshop in different situations. Immediately afterwards, the artists developed their projects with the assistance of Trama’s co-ordinators. The universe of projects covered from urban topics to publications and research on a specific social theme, by means of photography, opinion polls and other strategies, as well as working logics from areas as diverse as sociology, advertising, social photography, linguistics, anthropology and history. While the local artists carried out their projects,
we invited Ade Darmawan, artist from Jakarta, Indonesia, to join
Trama during twenty days, to develop a work with an Argentine artist
and show the results of this collaboration during the debate meetings.
The way in which Ade works, his interest in urban dynamics, and
the references to situationism in his work made him the perfect
workmate for Oscar Brahim. Oscar likes to introduce himself as "graphic
interventor" rather than as an artist, while supporting his
family by driving a taxi. During ten years he worked in the street
visually "attacking" advertising signs, in a clear critical
expression towards the symbols of globalization and advertising.
Design companies Omnigraphic and Prodaltec
sponsored the artists' projects developed in the workshop. |
Participants Dennis
Adams Sonia
Abián |
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