Intervention project in public spaces that is articulated from the creation of a collective of artists who develop and carry out interventions in urban and rural areas, such as 'tours', installations and various types of actions since 2001. The collective considers the tour as a means of communication, just like TV, cinema, radio, the press and the Internet. The themes of these tours and interventions may vary depending on the spaces and the stories to be investigated, these may be related to real events - historical or contemporary -, but also fictions, or a mixture of the two, presented by 'performers' using the techniques of tourism agencies. The tour will consist of a route through a city or rural area. During the trip you will visit the places where the stories happened. Traces or remains that still remain will be searched: graffiti, monuments, buildings, walls, squares, streets, premises, landscapes. The collective is made up of Mariano Maturana, Maite Ninou and Xavier Manubens.
Projects:
2005 Where do you live?, online project. 2005 Barcelona-Shanghai, Barcelona and Shanghai. 2005 The Route of the Spirits, Barcelona. 2005 The Route of Infamy, online project. 2005 The Route of Anarchism, Barcelona. 2004 The Route of Anarchism, Virreina Exhibitions, Barcelona Institute of Culture. 2003 Interventions in public space, workshop at the Visual and Multimedia Arts Production Center, HANGAR, Barcelona. 2003 Love Story, tour of the Raval neighborhood for the Banquete exhibition, Virreina Expósitos, Barcelona Institute of Culture. 2001 Love Story, tour in Cologne, Germany, for the exhibition Ville et Liason. Social, French Institute of Cologne. 2001 Love Story, project selected at Idensitats: Calaf-Barcelona 2001.
The intervention exhibited in MediaLab is Love Story (2003). Various love stories make up the common thread of an unusual 'tourist' tour through the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona. The tour collects the real historical memory of the urban transformation of a neighborhood that is currently characterized by the coexistence of people from very diverse cultures and origins, and weaves it with the personal experience of the protagonists of the narrative plot. The action takes place for two hours in unique places such as restaurants, grocery stores, phone shops and other emblematic spaces in the neighborhood. Using a mobile phone, the images and sound of the action can be viewed and heard via the Internet.
Organization: Tactical Tourism
