MEETINGS AND PRESENTATIONS
MEETING AND PRESENTATION OF THE INTERVENTIONS
Location: La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia n 2)
Moderated by Cecilia Andersson and Jorge Díez.
4th of February from 6pm to 9 pm. Participating artists: Lara Almarcegui, Laurence Bonvin, Teddy Cruz, Josep-Maria Martín and Pablo Valbuena.
5th of February from 6pm to 9 pm. Participating artists: Susanne Bosch, Lisa Cheung, Iñaki Larrimbe, Adaptive Actions and Gustavo Romano.
PRESENTATION AND SCREENING OF THE AUDIOVISUAL PIECES
Introduction of the audiovisual pieces selected in the 9th and 10th edition of Intervenciones.tv conducted by Fito Rodríguez.
6th of February 6 pm.
Open call for participation in Adaptive Actions, of Jean-François Prost
STARTS THE INTERVENTIONS OF THE 6TH EDITION OF MADRID ABIERTO
On the 12th of November starts the interventions of the 6th edition of Madrid Abierto with the project Hucha de deseos: ¡Todos somos un barrio, movilízate! of Susanne Bosch.
This art project serves as a model to empower people. It offers a creative platform that allows people to work together, to develop a collaborative spirit and inclusion. The art project combines an aesthetic appearance with a meaningful public debate.
Every banknote carries a trade value, but also a potential future value (saving for the next holidays, for the desired car...). Everyone carries an unused potential, an idea in mind, an observation, an untold story or observation, unused old coins in a drawer at home. This public art project seeks to collect as many of these little individual potentials as possible. The art project brings them together to transform them into projects and outcomes in the real world.
More than 136 millions of Peseta coins and 159 millions of Peseta banknotes remain in peoples private property. More than 1.776 million of Euros in Pesetas! Hucha de deseos: ¡Todos somos un barrio, movilízate! will collect the Peseta coins and banknotes in Plaza Puerta de Moros (square Carrera de San Francisco), La Latina neighborhood from the next 12th of November until the 20th of February of 2010.
PRESENTATION MADRID ABIERTO
Madrid Abierto will take part in the public art meeting Activando el espacio, which will take place the 9th and 10th of November at Centro Cultural de España in Buenos Aires.
For see the program http://www.cceba.org.ar/
Madrid Abierto in collaboration with "INTERVENCIONES TV.10", 2009, a Fundación Rodríguez Project, produced by Montehermoso
The main theme for this edition (http://www.intervenciones.tv) "Television: a public space or private one" and the period of presentation, by post to Centro Cultural Montehermoso or through the web page, from the 1st of July to 31st of October of 2009. The selected pieces may be broadcasted within the next public art programme, "Madrid Abierto" and, in which case, each author will receive 500 euros (taxes included)
MADRID ABIERTO 2004-2009 PUBLICATION
Within the framework of the international seminar of Madrid Abierto, Urban Buddy Scheme, that is developing in La Casa Encendida until the next Sunday 8th of February, we presented yesterday and is available the publication "Madrid Abierto 2004-2008" (bilingual edition Spanish -English). Distributed by Cataclismo, coming soon in the especially circuit of bookshops.
URBAN BUDDY SCHEME. SEMINAR AND MEETING.
From the 5th to the 8th of February 2009, the seminar and meeting entitled Urban Buddy Scheme, directed by Cecilia Andersson, curator of Madrid Abierto 2009-2010, will be held at La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia, nº2).
The city of Madrid is growing in an unprecedented pace. Multi disciplinary initiatives are engaged in processes that formulate new possible relationships with the city and its inhabitants, this while revealing complex layers of information. Activities that aim to envision possible futures, beyond the current construction crisis, continue with impressive strength.
This edition of Madrid Abierto sets out to investigate the potentials of collaborative socio-cultural and politically engaged work and how such work may perform as catalysts for change in the city. We will also try to activate processes that integrate new bodies of knowledge into the already existing.
ARTISTS SELECTED MADRID ABIERTO 2009-2010
For its sixth edition MADRID ABIERTO has received 587 proposals (508 for the general event, 16 for Casa de América, 16 for Círculo de Bellas Artes and 47 for sonorous art) from 769 artists from all over the world. The curator, Cecilia Andersson, has selected the following artists: Laurence Bonvin, Susanne Bosch, Lisa Cheung, Iñaki Larrimbe, Josep Maria Martín, Jean-François Prost, Gustavo Romano and Pablo Valbuena, together with the guests Lara Almárcegui, Teddy Cruz and Apolonija Sustersic + Meike Schalk and the façade of the Círculo de Bellas Artes project has been declared deserted.
Call for applications 2009-2010
The Cultural Association, MADRID ABIERTO, announces the start of the presentation of projects period for the 6th edition of its international public art programme, which will be held in 2009 and 2010. The programme will hold debate sessions on public art and will generate a series of interventions of an ephemeral or temporary nature in the centre of Madrid, whose authors will mainly be selected through this open call for presentations. A specific call for presentations of sonorous work, which includes collaboration in the audiovisual TV Interventions project, is also announced.