Perros Negros,
Mar 01, 2004 - Jul 30, 2004
Colonia Centro , Mexico DF, Mexico
Localismos (or how to be an amateur observer)
by Isaura Ruiz
-Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle created Popular Geometrics, a newspaper prepared from articles on public sculptures.
-Carolina Caycedo presented Audio Tattooing, a sound recording of the center streets with tattoos based on her research there.
-Erick Beltrán made Nadie lo sabe(Nobody knows it), a center of game and chance.
-Mara Verna created Lela y Teta, a performance featuring identical twins strolling through the Historic Center.
-Miguel Calderón exhibited Gym System, a low budget gymnasium in action.
-Miki Guadamur effected a selection of personalities found in the Center, basing this on Asiatic contraband, with the title Novedades y regales (Novelties and Gifts)
-Nuevos Ricos (Newly Rich), this disco held a brass band competition in search of new talent, baptizing the competition with the name El rey del Metal (The Heavy Metal King).
-Philippe Hernández prepared a lecture on 10 years of transformations and changes seen through the eyes of a foreigner in the Historic Center, calling his project Tepito Lindo (Lovely Tepito).
-Santiago Reyes presented the performance Muevan sus nachas (Move Your Ass), in addition to a video of 20 Ecuadorians discussing the "Ecuadorian-ness" of the capital’s Zócalo, or central plaza.
-The Tercer un quinto presented an architectural model of five projects for the Center, considered and based on its residence in the Historic Center.
Tastsuo Inagaki made a museum from photos and childhood memories of Center inhabitants, thus creating the Museo de la Infancia (Childhood Museum).
-24/7 put together Galería chatarra (Metal Waste Gallery), as a wandering gallery showing projects by the group members.
-Bordermates held a performance at the Nutrifrut juice shop, calling this Rebanada de paraíso... perdido (Flock from Paradise ... Lost).
-Diego Berruecos prepared a photographic record of street sellers from May 18 to the 26th.
-Ives Maes made a prototype of recyclable rims which were adapted to the 5 taxis making tours of all the Localismos events.
-Sonido Lasser Drakkar participated in two concerts.
The foregoing explanation is intended, not to be a brief summary of the events, but to give a broad although very partial view of the variety of projects presented. This may sound very ambitious and without a specific connecting thread, beyond the idea of stating what occurs in the Historic Center, both literally and metaphorically. This was in fact the case, few projects actually prepared an intelligent, non-folkloric vision of what the Historic Center is, its transient quality and its way of life represented by the reality of spending a month there. It should not be enough to be a mere observer and of rescuing the "curious" or the "anthropologically-interesting", but of creating a dialogue between the artist and the area in question.
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