Billboards and Activities on the Street
Urban Interventions:Another of the characteristics of the 2010 edition of the festival is the creation of various urban interventions in the streets of the cities of Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Neuquén. Their objective is to take the artworks out of their usual circuit (museums, cultural centers, art galleries) in order to show them in everyday spaces, allowing art to intersect with the everyday comings and going of people and therefore creating a spontaneous and singular relationship between the work and the spectator.
Co-ordination: Mariano Manikis
Dorrego Square in San Telmo
“Inmigrantes” (Immigrants)
If we go towards the south, as the first immigrants did, we will see, hung from the balconies like monochrome flags, some details about them. Archives also loaned by the Museo de Inmigrantes (Museum of Immigrants).
San Martín square
“ Mujeres en Exilio” (Women in Exile)
The Festival de la Luz with the generous participation of ACNUR (United Nations Organization for Refugees) brings us colourful, contemporary and hard hitting images of women in exile. Another aspect of migration, the forced departure from whatever place in whatever moment for whatever reason. Without the possibility to choose, with the few things they can carry with their own hands, these woman make their lives and their family lives over at the refugee camps.
Florida Street (corner Paraguay)
“Desarraigo” (Uprootedness)
This is a show in public space with archives loaned by ACNUR showing shocking and moving images of migrants who were helped to find refuge when they needed to abandon their homes.
Interventions involving people
Palermo Viejo square - Malabia St. and Costa Rica St.
“¿De dónde viniste?” (where do you come from?)The work raises the question of stereotypes and generalizations that are socially constructed on people, from their immigrant status and country of origin.
The students raised the EAF, the subject "New Trends in Contemporary Art" is the desire to generate in the "spectators" some kind of reflection on stereotypes and discrimination. This is achieved through participatory games.
Will be held on Sunday 22 and 29 August
Avenida de Mayo (De Mayo Avenue)
“Nuestros Abuelos Inmigrantes” (Our Immigrant Grandparents)
The Festival de la Luz and the city government of Buenos Aires invite their neighbours to participate in an action – bringing old and contemporary photos (or photocopies) of our immigrant parents, friends, uncles and aunts, and grandparents to be hung along the pavement from 11 am until 4 pm.
There, professors and students of the Escuela Argentina de Fotografía (Argentine School of Photography) will help to create this mega exhibition.
Perú Square
“El Festival en Provincias” (The Festival in the Provinces)
The Festival de la Luz was born in 1989 in Buenos Aires in the neighbourhood of Núñez, in the Escuela Argentina de Fotografía (Argentine School of Photography). But when it evolved it looked to the provinces. And today 30 cities participate as well as Buenos Aires. There are exhibitions in all of them. In Neuquén y Tucumán there are conferences and projections, and in Mar del Plata there are urban interventions.
There are artists from the north in the south, there are others from Tierra del Fuego in Rosario,artists from Rosario are in Buenos Aires and artists from Buenos Aires in Salta. There are Italians in Chivilcoy, Peruvians in Santa Fe, Dutch and Mexicans in Salta.
The exhibitions of the 2010 Festival themselves migrate. And with them their authors travel and get to know other artists. They exchange experiences and visions. In Plaza Peru, next to the MALBA, the Festival de la Luz will show a projection showing everything that happens outside of Buenos Aires.
This federal migration is made possible thanks to the generous contributions of the provinces’ coordinators, all the passionate photographers and the directors and staff of the museums of the provinces, who help make up the great photography event that is the Festival de la Luz 2010.
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