Posters placement, Dortmund
Exhibition in Ständige Vertretung
SOME IMPORTANT PEOPLE & FRIENDS III
NATALIA BLANCO & BETIANA BELLOFATTO
A third part of Some Important People & Friends was selected for being part of Been Out (vol.1), exhibition lab for young contemporary art by BOHEME PRECAIRE in Dortmund, Germany.
For this ocasion, Betiana Bellofatto wrote fake biographies to Natalia Blanco´s drawings. The result of the common work was a drawing installation and performance, composed by 28 plotters: 14 drawings and 14 texts.
The texts
The texts were written as fake biographies of the people represented in the drawings, all people supposedly to live and work in a company in Dortmund. By doing that, we aimed to create personalities that the public could relate to people that work on the same place as them, or buy the bread in the same bakery. Also the context was important: Dortmunds industrial background and the big changes that this structure suffered in the last 30 years. What kind of people can be found here?
The performance
14 portraits and 14 texts were placed as street posters in different spots of the city. Flyers with 4 of the characters were given to the people in the street. As a result of this performance the posters got mixed with the rest of the elements of the urban landscape of Dortmunds street (other posters, people, noises, cars, etc). Some of them remained in that place a couple of days, others were partly or completely covered by other manifestations.
The exhibition
Simultaneously to the work in the public space, documentation of this and previous works was exhibit in the second floor of the Gallery Ständige Vertretung.
About BEEN OUT
an exhibition lab for young contemporary art by BOHEME PRECAIRE & 2010 LAB.TV
Exhibition Opening: 3rd December 2011. Begin: 18:00 h
Exhibition: 3-10 December 2011
Ständige Vertretung, Hoher Wall 15, 44137 Dortmund-Mitte
The vacant second floor of Ständige Vertretung, home of the creative network Heimatdesign, becomes an exhibition laboratory: Where once the former regulatory authority did its paperwork, from 3-10 December 2011 six international young artists at the beginning of their career deal with the relationship of art and urban, public spaces. They work on questions that were published in a Europe-wide call for projects this autumn.
Although being initiated as a European project with a focus on North Rhine-Westphalia, the Netherlands and Great Britain, the one-month call of the Dortmund based cultural initiative Bohème Précaire in cooperation with numerous national and international partners attracted worldwide attention: Beside a lot of creatives from Germany numerous artists from e.g. Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Paraguay, France, Poland, Slovenia, Iran, Russia, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Chile and Argentina participated in the call. More than 200 works were submitted per e-mail. All proposals will be exhibited in the online gallery kunst.labor, a channel of the cultural portal 2010lab.tv.
The international expert judging panel chose six projects which will be invited to the exhibition at Ständige Vertretung. We are very pleased to announce the participants of the been out, vol. 1 exhibition as selected by the judging panel (and many thanks to the jury) - these are:
Andrea Acosta (CO) - sketches for found sculptures II
Blanco (BR,ES) Bellofato (AR) - some important people and friends
Dr Fahimi (DE) - social movement generator
Murray Gaylard (ZA) - huh? (talking streets)
Andrus Lauringson (EE) - reply-replay
ZASD (DE) - been out for arrow pieces