.... traces... Welcome Intruders

.. a little advance of the pics from the 'WELCOME INTRUDERS' installation

... just cos i could not resist it... still gotta go through many many .. 

and it might take a little while... but will get here... 

 hope you enjoy it... I did, very much

in this post, the work of Alia Ahmad, Jaqueline Ford, Mara Bueno, Moonkeum Kim and Sarah Culross

'WELCOME INTRUDERS' EXHIBITION

In a project that questions the notion of identity and the public and private space, the personal and the impersonal, three Illustrators moved in my bedroom and surrounded by many of my personal things they were asked to respond to a space charged with its own history and make it their home. 

Leaving trace of their presence and having documented their findings, they would vacate the space after four days for the next intruder to come and build the next layer of their own territorial claim. 

This exhibition is to celebrate their findings and their contributions. And you will be able to see the various stages of this installation through their eyes as well as mine. 

During the exhibition a fourth  intruder will be Video Performing adding the final layer.  

Please note space will be restricted, so to avoid disappointment it is advisable that you confirm your attendance by emailing to marabueno@yahoo.com.mx with Welcome Intruders as the subject.

I will be very happy to see you there.
Thank You. 

If you want to read the brief they responded to, click here. 

CALL FOR ENTRIES. Territorial Claims.

WELCOME INTRUDERS

This is an open invitation to take part in a project that questions the notion of identity and the public and private space, the personal and the impersonal. What makes a place your home?

Every time we move house we go through a process of choosing what to bring with us and what is left behind, in this process, not only 'what we need' is taken with, there is also the what we want, what we treasure and what makes us feel at home. This objects can follow us for several years, to many places, some people even have objects that bring to hotel rooms when they are abroad, something that makes them feel like they bring a bit of that idea of home with them.

But there is more to a 'home' than just objects, there is also rituals, the rearranging of the layout of the space for example by moving the furniture around, is a good way to make us feel we have some kind of control over the place, changing the walls colour, or in cases like in london where doing this might result in loosing your rents deposit hanging a picture often does the trick. There are many very personal rituals we follow to make a place a little more our own.

This project wants to investigate the need to belong to a place and the ways we claim this territories.



For this over the period of 4 weeks, I will invite 4 different people to move in my bedroom and make it their own. Each of them will have 4 days, during this 4 days they will be surrounded by many of my personal things, they will be invited to modify the arrangement of the furniture and will have to work around what is hung on the walls.

You will be able to add and contribute to the layout of the walls by changing the arrangement what is already hanged. The idea is to respond to a place which is got it's own history. You will be expected to live part of 'you' in the bedroom, traces of your presence. This traces will be regularly documented.

Each of the contributors will be given 2 disponsable cameras to record their findings and contributions through their own eyes and will be giving them back at the end of their residence.

This findings and contributions will later be selected and exhibited in the space and posted in this site with their name as contributors and a link to their website or blog (if relevant).

The residences will be taking place over January 2010 so if yo would like to participate and you would like more information please send me an email with a brief description of yourself and an approximate of the dates that you would be able to take part of the project.



To see more on 'territorial claims' click here.

territorial claims

"...everyone wants to be accepted, wants to belong, wants to have a place of his her own. All behaviour in society at large is indeed role-induced, in which the personality of each individual is affirmed by what others see in him. In our world we experience a polarization between exaggerated individuality on the one hand and exaggerated collectivity on the other. Too much emphasis is placed on the two poles, while there is not a single human relationship with which we as architects are concerned that focuses exclusively on one individual or on one group, nor indeed exclusively on everyone else, or 'the outside world'. It is always a question of people and groups in their interrelationship and mutual commitment..."
from Lessons for students in Architecture

face dos exploracion

I guess I will always be a stranger


if there is no memory


inside this nothingness, the silence

Work in Progress Exhibition

This piece is about questioning the use and perception of space, the public and the private, the personal and the impersonal.

It is composed of two site based installations. The first one took place in Richmond Park, where by bringing elements that evoked personal use and private property as well as the idea of warmth and personal identity, I intended to accentuate the uses of public spaces as extensions of our personal space. The need to belong to a place, a territory.



The second one was in at the Crypt Gallery. Here I brought some of the branches I found during the first installation, I wanted to bring the out-door indoors and with this underline the levels of public and accessibility. The branches were suspended and joined only by their shadows which were mimicked with soil, a trail that reminded where they came from, what they are no longer. Dead and alive, present and absent, past and present. time and space.

photo by George Hurst

photo by James and Varvara, taken from their blog


thank you for all the people who came, it was full! how exciting... unfortunately my pictures were terrible,  if you wanna  have a look at some of the others exhibiters  george's site  is got a really  nice documentation... make sure you have a look at the rest of his work, you'll love it!

Flyer by Erica Dorn

induced warmth