Art Lovers, curated by Oriol Fontdevila, combines two projects that gather new elements to the debate about those participants to the contemporary art processes whose importance is usually considerated as minor in the definition of the art meanings: museums audience, art students, collectors, amateurs etc. All those participants (shall we say art lovers?) have a very underestimated position in relation to the articulation of the artistic field.

Both projects give a central position to those actors: collectors and amateurs for Mireia Saladrigues' project "Inventari d'art" and art students for Anibal Parada's project "Sala Miró". Art Lovers pretends by this way to interfere with the legitimization dynamic and, through this institutionnal exhibition space, with the way meanings and values of what is socially considered as artistic are defined.

Inventari d’Art | Mireia C. Saladrigues
Mireia Saladrigues realizes an art inventory, as if she were creating a local heritage catalogue. In this case however, she registers in Granollers' private houses, the objects and the works their owners considerate as artistic, with an investigation of their meaning aside from their value for the art market and institutionnal field (see picture).

Sala Miró | Aníbal Parada
Sala Miró is an intervention proposal for a classroom that stands for an exhibition space in the University of Barcelona but that is used above all for students appraisal. The intervention proposal will be debated with Granollers high school art students.

When: from 16/12/2009 to 30/01/2010. Opening on 16/12 at 8 pm.
Where: Granollers Art Factory / Fabrica d'Art de Granollers - Espai Roca Umbert Roca Umbert,
C. Lluís Companys 1, Granollers

Mireia Saladrigues will present her new publication: El poder de la convocatòria (The power of the open call) looks at how an artistic project seeks the involvement of the recipients of the work, together with the reasons why people do, or do not, take part in the dynamics of interaction.

To carry out this research, the letters making up the sentence “AQUESTA HA ESTAT LA CAPACITAT DE CONVOCATÒRIA DEL PROJECTE QUE ESTÀS VEIENT” (YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL OF THE OPEN CALL OF THIS PROJECT) were cut out of bread – it was important that the material should be commonly available and not long-lasting. Each letter was then sent to a person chosen at random from the phone book, asking the recipient to bring the letter to the EspaiDos at the Sala Muncunill in Terrassa so that the sentence could be reconstructed. A dozen of the sixty-four letters sent out were returned.

The main goal of the project was to interview both the twenty-five people who finally came along to the exhibition hall with their letter and also the twenty-seven who did not. The interviews were used to compile the people’s opinions, find out what they do in their free time, and gather other personal information.

The publication contains the conversations that we had, along with some conceptual maps which show what the response of the public was like.

This publication has been produced with funding from Terrassa City Council’s Department of Visual Arts as part of the Punt de Partida (Starting Point) project and from the 2008 publishing projects awards by the Sala d’Art Jove in the Catalan Government’s Youth Secretariat. The author has been mentored by Txuma Sánchez.

Book designed by NODE.

When: june 18th at 8 pm
Where: Sala d'Art Jove de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Delphine Pouillé presents five photographic works in the "Hauts en Couleur" collective exhibition at La Ferronnerie Gallery, in Paris. The exhibition was curated by Pie Setala (Finland) who invited artists from France and Finland: Henni Alftan, Ien Lucas, Delphine Pouillé, Vittorio Roerade, Jérôme Touron

DELPHINE POUILLÉ

VITTORIO ROERADE

Where: La Ferronnerie Gallery, 40, rue de la Folie-Méricourt, Paris - France
When: Opening on May 26th. Exhibition from May 26th to June 27th

Continent Virtuel (Julie Guiches and Benoît Lorent) participate to the Femelek Festival. FEMELEK FESTIVAL presents its 4th edition, as a new reference for electronic music produced by women. The program gathers many live concerts as well as visual actions.



Among the artists, Femelek will present concerts by Sonia Keating, Trash van Traxxx + Lady EMZ, Claudia Carotti, benDita and visual actions by Alba G. Corral, Damako, Julie Guiches, Washing Machine.

When: 06/03
Where: Barcelona, convent de St Agusti

Julie Guiches was the homesession 2nd resident.

Mireia Saladrigues presents Zoolar Eclipse at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland) in the framework of Capsula Expeditions: Capsula’s cross-disciplinary expeditions, straddling the borderline between art and science, study and marvel at natural phenomena through personal experience. The first expedition was made in summer 2008 to Siberia, where the total eclipse of the Sun could be observed. The base of the expedition was set up at the Novosibirsk Zoo, from which it continued on to the Altai wilderness and all the way to the Moon. Travelling slow, using methods of transport that only moderately burden the environment, is a key aspect of the expeditions.

Mireia aims to understand and find new dimensions of the surrounding world through her research projects. With Zoolar Eclipse she invited one hundred Zoo visitors to actively participate in observing the changes to the animals and themselves during an eclipse.

Where: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
When: opening on march, 6th at 7pm. Presentation of the expedition at the Kiasma theatre at 6pm.