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12. 2. 2012 1

Luzinterruptus: “Drinking water running through the streets”

Luzinterruptus und ihre neue Intervention: “Drinking water running through the streets”. “In Madrid, in less than 30 years, more than 50% of the public fountains in service have been lost, which now are seen to be dismantled, broken, without a tap to drink from or simply dry. To criticize the indifference of the administration in regards to a necessary public service, we carried out our action. We have spent more than 4 months collecting the glass containers of the multiple vitamin supplement Infatrini, prescribed for little Alicia, who is now 1 year old, and whose father Fernando has been saving them for us with all the patience in the world. In total they have donated more than 200 vials to us that we have thoroughly cleaned and used to create our individual and luminous streams of water. On a cold night at the end of January, we went out into the street and took control of 4 unused public fountains in the city center, bringing them back to life for a few hours. We wanted to say that water is necessary for life and that the fountains that are used for drinking and refreshing ourselves seem much more necessary and beautiful to us than those which are merely ornamental, which the citizens cannot normally get close if not for some football event of “national interest”.” Via: Mail

18. 7. 2011 1

Watchlist: Neko & Rosh / UPDATE 23.7.11

Update 23.7.11: ROSH & NEKO: “Black Hearts”:

Citylightkunst statt Citylightplakate: Schöne Neonröhren-Adbustings von Neko in Madrid. Via

18. 6. 2011 0

Update: Nuria Mora

Neue Arbeiten von Nuria Mora: “Hi! I came back recently from New York City and wanted to share with you what i painted on a rooftop by the East River. You can see the images of the process here. This was possible thanks to NEKO (photos) and Jordan Seiler (support, paint, shelter). Also you can watch my latest takeover downtown Madrid, at Preciados street cliking here.” Via: Mail

5. 4. 2011 13

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover


Sue


Ron English


Sean Martindale


C100


TrustoCorp


Remed


Quel Beast


Dos Jotas: “I participate, You participate, He participates, We participate. They benefit.”


Bronco: “The light at the end of the tunnel was a firefly. We became friends and it tought me to shine.”


Specter

WOW – was für ein Projekt: Madrid Street Advertising Takeover! Letzten Mittwoch, 30. März 2011, wurden in Madrid 106 City-Light-Poster entfernt – und durch die Botschaften von Künstlern ersetzt. Und mitgemacht hat so ziemlich das komplette ABC der Szene – Bronco, El Tono, Luzinterruptus, Ron English, Various & Gould, Space Hijackers, TrustoCorp, Specter, Swoon etc. Insgesamt 4 Teams à 4 Personen waren im Einsatz – und innerhalb einer Stunde war die gesamte Werbung in der Stadt verschwunden. DANKE für diese fantastische Aktion – und das ist wirklich eine Spende wert!

“MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover) is the second international SAT project, and the third in a continuing series of civil disobedience projects aimed at reclaiming space for public dialogue in a commercially saturated environment. The action took place on 03-30-11 and resulted in 106 bus shelter advertising removals. MaSAT began after PublicAdCampaign was contacted by NEKO and A. De Pedro who requested that we come to their city for a large action. In the last two projects, artists and individuals were asked to create or submit artworks which would be used to replace outdoor advertising. This is done through an open call which allows anyone to participate in the event because we feel all of our voices should be represented on the streets. When I told the Madrid team that an open call could result in hundreds of submissions they made it clear that 100 should be the maximum as anything larger would be too risky. This required us to curate 100 individuals for the project, something I was not entirely comfortable with. That said, these projects are entirely collaborative and it is important to trust those who you work with. Not quite understanding how I would go about curating a public project like this, we began to bounce ideas back and forth about a way to create a democratic project while at the same time curating the submissions.

NEKO proposed that instead of artwork submissions we ask only for text. In this way the project would step outside of the artistic arena and become public in an entirely different way than we had conceived of before. I was ecstatic about this idea and together we created a list of artists, sociologists, teachers, lawyers, gallerists, bloggers, and other individuals who think deeply about what it means to have an open public environment. Each individual was asked to submit text via email. This text could be in any language and of any length but could not include the individuals name, logo, or website. I was overwhelmed by the nature of peoples submissions which included heartfelt sentiments, critical public space theories, short stories, and unique text design work. In this way the streets of Madrid were covered with public works made to create conversations and dialogues without promotion and as a gift to the city.

Once we had decided on the format for submissions, planning of the action began. Both NEKO and A. De Pedro had worked in bus shelters before and so suggested we use these venues for our takeover. 4 keys were procured so that 4 teams could work in unison. A call was made to the Madrid community for on the ground installation support and photographic documentation. Within days we had teams in place and our participants submitting work. I arrived in Madrid on the 24th and we set to the task of printing posters, mapping locations, and organizing the action. It took a little under a week to get everything in place and everyone was itching to hit the streets.

April 30th we set out at 5:30am in 4 teams, each consisting of a trolley filled with posters, 3 installers, and one photographer. The action took less than an hour and I sit writing this only hours after we finished. As it looks now, Cemusa has discovered that they have been targeted and we have been watching workers check and count the takeover locations. While I would expect them to remove our work immediately, they have not. This is either because they do not have commercial content to fill these spaces, or like in Toronto, they are documenting the damage. If this is the case we are hoping that these public works will stay up for a few days while they figure out how to remedy the situation. Until then, from all of those involved in MaSAT, we hope Madrid enjoys a small bit of relaxation from the burden of commercial messaging and will enjoy the conversations and ideas created by our love for this city.” Via

24. 2. 2011 1

Luzinterruptus: “One sees the sea between the cars”

Die neue Intervention von Luzinterruptus: “One sees the sea between the cars”. “We believe that the containers of rubble in the streets of Madrid are like stranded ships, waiting between the cars, for the rising tide that never comes, to take them back to the sea. Some of these containers, especially those which are in luxury neighborhoods, are covered by shiny tarpaulins of green and blue, which cover the unsightly rubbish inside them and when we see them we imagine that a piece of the deep, bright sea has crept into our dry, urban habitat. The night of February the 7th, we decided to stage this fantasy, adding paper boats with lights to our imaginary, miniature seas. The action was called “One sees the sea between the cars” and to carry it out we used 3 covered containers which we found in the neighborhood of Salamanca in Madrid, placing upon its “waters”, a tiny, harmless fleet, of illuminated paper boats.” Via: Mail, thx!

28. 7. 2010 0

Watchlist: Ana Botella Crew

“Konzeptvandalismus” aus Spanien: Die Ana Botella Crew sprüht & klebt im Namen der Frau von Spaniens Ex-Regierungschef – einer erbitterten Graffiti-Feindin.

“Who is Ana Botella Crew? We are a street art group. We do CONCEPTUAL VANDALISM, je, je… We started almost a year ago coping and stencil the signature of Ana Botella who is in charge of the Department of Enviroment in Madrid. She declare the war to graffiti, and we had an idea to answer…je, je, je… It´s a open project because we send the signature and the mask (The KIT for the International Conspiracy) to everyone who wanted to tag any wall. Also, we ask people to join us for special moments…We have crew in many cities in Spain and also in other countries….wich is amazing! Since the first action, we did 3 more. The last was to cellebrate her birthday, pasting-up posters with the faces of International Evil People, saying hello for her birthday. From Mel Gibson to Henry Kissinger. From Bush to Margartet Tatcher…
(weiterlesen…)

29. 6. 2010 4

Javier Abarcas “Urban Art”-Klasse in Madrid: 2009/2010 Edition


Pablo Álvarez: “Apariencias”. “Apariencias (resemblances) is a series of simple and powerful visual puns that bring forward questions regarding the nature of industrialized food, its chain of production and distribution, and our relation with all that. In a particularly bare example of shop-dropping, the artist substitutes slick design tricks with visual shrewdness.”


Álvaro Alciturri: “Sapo-en-el-pozo“. “Inspired by obscure literature and first-person, point-and-shoot computer videogames of the early nineties, the artist creates a fictional character that uses a webpage to communicate his particularly sophisticated vision of murder.”


Noelia Fuentes: “El mirador”. “In the working-class, dry, flat lands south of Madrid, in a village particularly touched by the epic housing speculation of last decades, a particularly corrupt politician signed the lease of a patch of land next to a residential area to be turned into an oversized tire dump. El mirador (panoramic point) is an apparently light-hearted project that remarks a very dark reality.”

Alle Jahre wieder veranstaltet Javier Abarca an der Kunstuniversität Madrid einen Kompaktkurs zum Thema “history of unsanctioned public art: graffiti, postgraffiti, site-specific intervention, artivism and outsider public art.” Danach realisiert jede/r Student/in ein Projekt im bzw. mit dem öffentlichen Raum. Oben gibt’s meine drei Favoriten zu sehen, alle acht Projekte gibt’s hier. Mehr aus den Vorjahren: 2008/2009 Edition, 2007/2008 Edition.

26. 3. 2010 1

Luzinterruptus: “Packaged vertical garden”, 2010

Die neue Licht-Intervention von Luzinterruptus in Madrid: “Criticism, of a humorous tone, at the lack of green spaces in large contemporary cities. With the installation Packaged vertical garden, we wanted to promote the preservation of urban greenery, because if we continue to eradicate it from public spaces or reducing it to inaccessible vertical faces, the only form of contact with nature will be in supermarket refrigerators, packaged with expiry dates.” Via: Mail

24. 3. 2010 0

Urbane Interventionen: “Madrid Abierto 09/10″

Lisa Cheung: “Huert-o-Bus“. “Huert-o-Bus is a travelling greenhouse, inviting local residents in Madrid to grow fresh vegetables and plants within the city centre. Huert-o-bus makes use of existing urban public spaces for communal gardens and local food growing. Like a public city bus, Huert-o-bus will stop in different neighbourhoods and districts in designated plazas, carrying its ‘passengers’ of seeds and seedlings. Each site will be marked by a ‘bus stop’ that informs neighbours/visitors of the Huert-o-Bus schedule and its activities.”

Iñaki Larrimbe: “Unofficial tourism“. “With Unofficial tourism, artist Iñaki Larrimbe seeks to customize a caravan and turn it into an `unofficial´ tourist office. By locating it in the streets of Madrid, the aim is to inform foreign cultural consumers (tourists) by offering maps and guides containing alternative routes of exploration. Different to those delivered by the `official tourism´, these itineraries have been made by six people living in Madrid, and who are related to its most alternative culture, its `underground´ or counterculture. Mauro Entrialgo and Adriana Herreros have created a guide to Advertising neon signs; Guillermo de Madrid has put together a route of Urban Art; Jimina Sabadu shows us public spaces where motion pictures were shot; John Tones invites us to walk into various arcades and stores that have kept the old school game machines; Santi Otxoa delivers an itinerary to One hundred year old taverns in Madrí and the Todo por la praxis collective, encourages us to meet the unheard-of human fauna and urban flora in the neighbourhood of Cañada Real.”

Adaptive Action: AA Camp-Madrid. “The Adaptive Action (AA) laboratory, initiated in London in 2007, lends voice to marginal causes, alternative urban lifestyles, counter-conducts and citizen’s artistic creations by which imagination and personal creativity influences daily life. AA makes an inventory in order to disclose these singularities and existing actions. AA also aims to encourage others to engage in new creative activities in order to adapt the urban fabric. AA nurtures itself on individual and collective contributions and initiatives by extending an open call for collaboration (taking place in several places simultaneously).”

Das Projekt “Madrid Abierto 2009/2010” bot auch diesmal wieder viele inspirierende Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum – und viele lesenswerte Theorietexte: “Making public interventions in today’s massive cities” (Saskia Sassen), “Urban Interventions” (Nelson Brissac) und “Madrid Abierto 2004-2008” (Jorge Díez).

20. 8. 2009 0

Luzinterruptus: “Public Toilets”

Wieder eine neue Lichtinstallation von Luzinterruptus: “Public Toilets“. “We carried 80 male urine containers, the ones used in hospitals. Inside we poured yellow water and, what else but our lights. (…) Through our installation, public toilets, we have tried to attract attention -in a comical manner- about the problem we encounter when walking in centric streets and squares. Its purpose is to remind people who have this custom and also institutions so that a solution is found –perhaps by using urban furniture where people can urinate without bothering others, in case of extreme urgency.” Mehr zu Luzinterruptus hier und hier, vgl. das Thema “Urinieren” auch hier. Via: Mail