Fundación PROA
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[C1169AAD] Buenos Aires
Argentina
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Mondays closed.
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Recently arrived from Chile, where she performed for the first time and her show was qualified as “outstanding” “historical and unforgettable”, Beatriz Pichi Malen, one of the most virtuous voices of Mapuche music, will sing again at Proa’ s Auditorium on Saturday December 4, at 8PM.
Chilean press wrote “Beatriz Pichi Malen graced us with an amazing evening, full of songs that paraded the assisting audience through the four seasons, making rain, birds, sun, trees, flowers and animals come to live in a ancestral sound landscape that traces back to the most essential and profound of ourselves. A true encounter with the land and our people.”
The concert she will give at Proa, almost deprived of technological assistance, reveals different Mapuche compositions: sacred, profane and popular chants and songs of sorrow and pain, all evoking the symbols of this culture. Pichi Malen accompanies her songs with brief explanations and stories in a captivating, almost ritual, concert that reveals the strength and subtleness of traditional Mapuche music.
Descendant of cacique Ignacio Coliqueo, Pichi Malen is devoted to the search and diffusion of her ancestors’ culture, which she accomplishes through these recitals, recordings and editions of Mapuche songbooks.
In her extensive artistic career, she has had several presentations in Latin American European and North American cities. She edited two records and her songs are included in important international ethnic music compilations. In 2002, she performed a series of memorable concerts at Fundación Proa.
In an interview for Chilean press, she mentions: “From the moment I chose to sing only in Mapuche, I am offering a resistance, a different way of inviting people to penetrate in our world, the world of the old who knew how to be instead of living in appearances; and who also have a live memory and have enabled young-and not so young- people like myself not to have disappear as people and culture”
Beatriz Pichi Malen, one of the most privileged voices of Mapuche music, will give 4 exclusive concerts at Proa’ s Auditorium on Saturdays during November and December. This well-known performer recovers and performs a capella a varied repertory of the lost oral heritage of her people.
The concert, almost deprived of technological assistance, reveals different Mapuche compositions: sacred, profane and popular chants and songs of sorrow and pain, all evoking the symbols of this culture.
Pichi Malen accompanies her songs with brief explanations and stories in a captivating, almost ritual, concert that reveals the strength and subtleness of traditional Mapuche music.
Descendant of cacique Ignacio Coliqueo, Pichi Malen is devoted to the search and diffusion of her ancestors’ culture, which she accomplishes through these recitals, recordings and editions of Mapuche songbooks.
In her extensive artistic career, she has had several presentations in Latin American European and North American cities. She edited two records and her songs are included in important international ethnic music compilations. In 2002, she performed a series of memorable concerts at Fundación Proa.
Saturday November 27 - 5PM
Roundtable debate with Fernando Davis, Marcelo Expósito, Mauro Herlitzka, Ana Longoni, Diana Wechsler and Juan Carlos Romero
Romero, a book on the work of distinguished artist and theorist Juan Carlos Romero, will be presented at a roundtable debate by accomplished researchers, art historians and artists, on Saturday November 27 at 7PM. This publication goes through his extensive career, from the 1950s to the present, analyzing his role as artist, graphic designer and political figure.
The book is a result of Fernando Davis and Ana Longoni’ s rigorous and extensive research, which included extensive documentation and inedited material. In over 300 pages, it reunites for the time a selection of writings, photographs and reproductions of his work.
Romero was edited by Fundación Espigas with the support of Foundation for Arts Initiatives, the City’ s patronage legislation, Tenaris and Banco FinanSur.
Romero
Juan Carlos Romero, Fernando Davis, Ana Longoni
Fundación Espigas, 2010
ISBN 978-987-1398-05-8
368 pages
As part of Ciudades Paralelas –a project of public spaces interventions that will be developed in several venues in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Varsovia and Zurich- Fundación Proa presents a film, two concerts and a debate on the subject of the city. This series of events place Proa at the center of festival related activities.
The documentary Hacerme feriante (Becoming a Stallholder, 2010, 92’), Julián d’Angiolillo’ s first film on the Salada fair and alternative city economy, will screen on Sunday November 28. That same day, Ulises Conti presents his new record “Posters privados” (“Private posters”) at a piano concert and stories on different views of the city.
On Sunday December 5, the eight artists that participate in Ciudades Paralelas will present the conclusions of the festival in a debate moderated by Alan Pauls. Closure will be in charge of Pablo Dacal who will perform live at Proa’ s terrace.
Program Sunday November 28 6PM FILM | Hacerme feriante (Becoming a Stallholder, 2010, 92’), by Julián d’Angiolillo +info 8PM MUSIC | Concert by Ulises Conti + info
Sunday December 5 6PM DEBATE | Ciudades paralelas. Diarios de trabajo (Ciudades Paralelas. Work journals). With Lola Arias, Christian García, Ant Hampton, Dominic Huber, Stefan Kaegi, Ligna, Gerardo Naumann, Mariano Pensotti. Moderador: Alan Pauls + info 8PM MUSIC | Concert by Pablo Dacal at the terrace + info
Ciudades Paralelas is a project of intervention on public spaces, curated by Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi. They summoned international artists to create an observatory of urban situations in eight different spots around the city. Hotel rooms, libraries, shopping malls, train stations and factories are the locations chosen by the artists to produce their work. This festival previewed in Berlin in September earlier this year, and will be relocated to Varsovia and Zurich in 2011. In words of its curators, “Ciudades Paralelas is itinerant laboratory for experimentation that subverts the ways of seeing and using the city”.
FILM | Sunday November 28 6PM Hacerme feriante
(Becoming a Stallholder) Argentina, 2010, 92’. Dir. Julián d’Angiolillo
"Hacerme feriante". Argentina, 2010, 92’. Dir. Julián d’Angiolillo
Julián d’Angiolillo’ s first film gives the tour of the largest fair in Argentina, where everything is available at prices considerably lower than in the “real” world. The documentary exposes the growth of informal economy, legal limits and the use of public spaces. “Hacerme feriante” (Becoming a Stallholder) was included in BAFICI’ s Argentinean Competence in 2010.
Sinopsis
La Salada are a series of fairs specialized in textile in Buenos Aires’ city, on the ruins of the popular private beaches. Twice a week, in the early morning, the fair activates the economy through an immeasurable amount of domestic scale workshops that provide products for wholesalers coming from all over the country. The stallholders ingeniously built a multitudinous system for everyone who cannot find in the city, what the Salada fair has to offer, establishing its own rules and making the government come to them – instead of the other way around-. Given town council’ s judicial pressure to clean contamination in the Riachuelo (where the most precarious fair is located), an unsuspected negotiation between the State and the stallholders begins suddenly in order to transform the territory once more.
On Julián d’Angiolillo
He has a Bachelor in Visual Arts from IUNA and in Drama from EAD. He published “Cabinas” (National prize and Rozenmacher special mention on drama) and the essay “La desplazada. Biogeografía del Parque Rivadavia”. He made the videos “Condominio”, “El Arco del Triunfo Entrópico”, “Colección Overlock” y “Suite Matanzas”. He designed the visual composition of “Suerte Satélite” at the city’s Planetarium and the video installation “Dirección de paseos”, in the exhibition devoted to Carlos Thays. He received a video residency from the Cité des Arts of París and the Elena Poggi award from the Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte. He took part in the project “Post It City – Ciudades Ocasionales”.
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MUSIC | Sunday November 28, 8PM La ciudad portátil (Portable city). Concert by Ulises Conti
Ulises Conti presents his new album “Posters privados” (Private posters), a series of eight piano pieces where the experimentation is not in the content, as in his previous work, but in the way of simply addressing classical language. He works under the premise of doing music with the fewer amount of elements possible, seeking to escape the stereotypical characteristics of a clean performance and avoid academic gestures. The end result seems to be the image of a performer playing in an empty room, where we can come in and spy on him, opening a side door, unnoticed.
On Ulises Conti
He is a composer and sound artist. From Metamúsica, his productive platform, he develops diverse projects trying to provide and solve stages generally related to music in an interdisciplinary context: soundtracks, theatre plays, dance performances, sound installations; with an international scope, atypical for Argentinean composers of his generation. He presented diverse projects in Buenos Aires and diverse prestigious stages around the world. His music is edited in different national and international catalogues. + info: www.ulisesconti.com.ar / www.myspace.com/ulisesconti
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DEBATE | Sunday December 5, 6PM Ciudades paralelas. Diarios de trabajo
(Work Journals) With Lola Arias, Christian García, Ant Hampton, Dominic Huber, Stefan Kaegi, Ligna, Gerardo Naumann y Mariano Pensotti. Moderator: Alan Pauls
The eight artist who participate in the festival present their work journals and discuss different strategies of urban intervention, under the moderation of writer Alan Pauls.
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MUSIC | Sunday December 5, 8PM Canciones sobre la ciudad (Songs about the city). Concert by Pablo Dacal at the terrace.
The festival’ s closure will be in charge of Pablo Dacal. The musician will perform at Proa’ s terrace. He will present a song repertory on the multiple of views of the city.
On Pablo Dacal
He is a singer songwriter, a referent for other contemporary local musicians. He shared the stage with great artist of his generation such as Fito Páez, Daniel Melingo and Fernando Cabrera, among others. Front man for the Orquesta de Salón, he edited “13 greatest hits” (2005) and “La Era del Sonido” (2008); and, with the Voladores trio, the albums “Disco de Bolsillo” (2006) and “Cartón Pintado” (2009). En 2009, he also edited “Viajantes”, the debut record of his band, with Manuel Onós, Juan Jacinto and Alfonso Barbieri. He played several concerts in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Spain, France and Germany. He is currently finishing his new record “El Progreso”, produced by Ezequiel Cutaia and to be edited in the next year. + info: www.musicadesalon.com.ar / www.myspace.com/salonerias
Avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier, one of the most distinguished figures in experimental music, will dialogue with Gustavo Fernández Walker on Wednesday November 24 at Proa’ s Auditorium. Later on, the Alter Ego Ensemble will play a selected contemporary music program.
Both events are part of the XIV Program of Contemporary Music Concerts, organized by the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires and under the direction of Martin Bauer. The event has the support of Fundación Proa.
Alvin Lucier (1931, EEUU) is a pioneer and key figure in experimental music. His more recent works include sound installations and compositions for solo instruments, camera ensembles and orchestras. In this one-off event, Lucier will discuss different aspects of what is contemporary with Gustavo Fernández Walker.
Musicians Oscar Pizzo (piano), Francesco Dillon (cello) and Manuel Zurria (flute), members of the Alter Ego Italian Ensemble, will be accompanied by percussionist Antonio Caggiano. The program will include the piece “Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra”, composed by Lucier as a triangle solo. The composer said about the work: “I took the title from the Surrealist manifest from 1922 by Spanish film director Luis Buñuel. He gave several descriptions and tittles to all the instruments on the orchestra and named the orchestra’s triangle Silver Streetcar (…). The musician simply hits the triangle during the whole length of the piece (…). That is to say that you hear the triangle in all its marvelous manifestations, extraordinary sounds that you never knew were there”.
Alter Ego will present a selection of pieces little known to the Argentinean audience. Its members are considered internationally amongst the most important instrumental players in the European Contemporary Music panorama. They are known for their collaborations with visual and scenic artists and with pop and rock musicians. They have collaborated with figures such as Irvine Arditti, Salvatore Sciarrino, Philip Glass, Kaija Sariajo, Frederick Rzewski, David Lang and Alvin Curran. They have played at Proa on several occasions since 2004.
Program:
I. 3 bagatelle (2008) by Francesco Filidei
Manuel Zurria (flute) / Francesco Dillon (cello) / Oscar Pizzo (piano)
II. Rekindle (2010) by Michel van der Aa
Manuel Zurria (flute) and tape
III. Voicelessness (the snow has no voice) (1986) by Beat Furrer
Oscar Pizzo (piano)
IV. Quatre récitations (2010) by Georges Aperghis
Francesco Dillon (cello)
V. Puja (2004) by Mazulis
Manuel Zurria (flute) and tape
VI. Incarnation II (1978) by Somei Satoh
Oscar Pizzo (piano) and electronic
VII. Curve with plateaux (1982) by Jonathan Harvey
Francesco Dillon (cello)
VIII. Corroto (1982) by Jacob TV
Manuel Zurria (flute) / Francesco Dillon (cello) / Oscar Pizzo (piano)
IX. Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (1998) by Alvin Lucier
Video: Piano and Cello contemporary music concert organized by Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires. It was held at the Swedish Church (Iglesia Sueca de Buenos Aires). November 15th 2007. This is a Morton Feldman fragment.
Premiere: Saturday September 18, 7PM Screenings:
Saturday September, 18, 25 – 7PM
Saturday October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – 7PM
Saturday November 6 – 7PM – Last screening
Proa’s Auditórium
For more information: auditorio@proa.org / 4104-1000/1001
About the film
Proa Cinema presents SANTIAGO (Brazil, 2006, 80’), João Moreira Salles’ most acclaimed production. The film will screen each Saturday until November 6, at 7PM.
Since it was launched, SANTIAGO has received many awards from different film festivals, obtaining a great international acclaim. In Argentina, it was screened at the 2007 edition of BAFICI film festival and was considered as one of the most distinguished documentaries.
João Moreira Salles is one of the most acknowledged documentary filmmakers of Brazilian contemporary film. He began writing scripts for television in 1985. Since then, he has directed ten documentaries, many of them awarded internationally. “Entreatos” (2004), “Nelson Freire” (2002), “Notícias de uma Guerra particular” (1999, co-directed by Kátia Lund) and “Jorge Amado”(1995).
Overview
SANTIAGO, Brazil, 2006. 80 minutes
Direction: João Moreira Salles
Executive producer: Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Photography director: Walter Carvalho, A. B. C.
Producer in chief: Beto Bruno
Sound producer: Jorge Saldanha
Editors: Eduardo Escorel and Livia Serpa
About the filmmaker
João Moreira Salles is a documentary filmmaker. Since 2006, he is editor for Piauí magazine. He began his carreer in 1985 as script writer for the five episodes sitcom “Japão, uma Viagem no Tempo”.
In 1987, he wrote the script for “Krajcberg o Poeta dos Vestigios”, film for which he received the awards for best investigative documentary at the Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy); best documentary film at the New Latin American International Film Festival, in La Habana (Cuba) and the Golden toucan for the best TV show from Río de Janeiro at Rio’s V Festival (Brazil).
In 1987, he directs “China, o Império do Centro”, special prize from the Paulist Association of Art Critics and the Award for best TV reportage from the brazilian association for literary critic.
In 1989, he shot the documentary “Poesia é uma ou duas linhas e por tras uma imensa paisagem” on the poet Ana Cristina César, winning the Grand Prize at the Fotoptica Festival. That same year he also directed América, a series of five documentary episodes on North American culture, shot at the US and broadcasted by TV Manchete. It was considered by the critics as one of the best productions for Brazilian television.
In 1990, he produced “Blues” a special episode on North American black music, which was awarded the special jury prize at the International Art Film Festival from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
From 1991 until 1996, he devoted to advertisement and won several awards. In 1995 he directed alongside Jorge Amado a one-hour documentary film on the racial issues in Brazil, based on the writer’s work. Co-produced with Continental Cameras (France) and broadcasted by France 3 and GNT (Brazil) stations.
In 1998, he premiered the documentary series “Futebol”, co-directed with Arthur Fontes. Filmed in a two years period throughout Brazil, this project is a portrait on Brazilian football, a chronicle of the athletes lives in different moments of their careers: the beginning, the fame and the players anonymity. The three-episodes sitcom was nominated for that year’s Emmy awards under the international documentary section, and was selected in the International Documentary Film Festival from Amsterdam. He also participated in New York’s Film Festival where he was amongst the Latin American runners-up.
In 1999, Moreira Salles co-directed alongside Katia Lund “Notícias de uma guerra particular” a documentary film on street violence in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is the film scenario. Policemen, drug dealers and favela inhabitants are the characters. They take part in a daily war with no victories. The film won the 2000 award for best documentary film at the É tudo verdade Festival of São Paulo and was runner-up for the Emmy Awards and the New York Film Festival.
In 2000, Videofilmes launched a documentary series “6 Historias Brasileiras”. Moreira Salles co-directed with Marcos Sá Corrêa the episodes “O Vale” (on the ravaging of the Atlantic forest of the Paraíba Valey) and “Santa Cruz” (on the birth of the evangelist church in Rio de Janeiro’s suburbs).
In 2003, Moreira Salles premiered Nelson Freire, a feature film on the Brazilian pianist’s career. Shot during the artist’s 2000 European and Russian tour, the film captures images of his concerts and the intimacy of rehearsals and his home studio. The film contains Nelson Freire’ s delectable musicality, acclaimed worldwide.
In November 2004, his documentary film “Entreatos” showing the most intimate moment of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 2002 presidential campaign. The film reveals the behind the scenes of an historical moment using exclusive material, private conversations, strategic meetings, phone calls, transfers, discourse recordings and electoral programs. In 2006 he finished Santiago, a documentary feature film on his family’s former butler. The film was awarded best documentary at the Alba Film Festival, in Italy and the Festival du Réel, in Paris in 2007.
Press
Casa con fantasmas / Juan Forn. Página 12. 03.09.2010 João Moreira Salles. Estuche Freak. 03.09.2010
Santiago. Cine Búho. Septiembre 2010 Santiago de João Moreira Salles. Librosgratis. 03.09.2010 Santiago de João Moreira Salles. EsLiteratura.com. 04.09.2010 Santiago!Seminario Gargarella. 09.09.2010 PROA Cine estrena una joya del documental: Santiago Impulso Baires. 18.09.2010
Santiago, de João Moreira Salles Yahoo Noticias 22.09.2010 Santiago de João Moreira Salles El Amante 18.09.2010 EstrenoPROA CINE: Santiago, de João Moreira Salles El Reverso SantiagoGuyazi 16.09.2010 PROA CINE : “Santiago”, de João Moreira Salles EraMusical Enterarte Cultural 18.09.2010
Proa Cine presenta: Santiago de Joao Moreira Salles Moda Fusión Arte 18.09.2010 PROA Cine estrena una joya del documental: SantiagoOtros Cines 18.09.2010 Santiago Fotografías 18.09.2010 Santiago de João Moreira Salles (2006) Bamarte18.09.2010
Proa Cine presenta ‘Santiago’, un film documental dirigido por João Moreira Salles Arte en la Red 13.09.2010 La seducción del valet -SANTIAGO documental del cineasta brasileño Joao Moreira Salles Cine al Sur 27.09.2010 Santiago, el magnífico documental de Joao Moreira SallesTaller La Otra 25.09.2010 La seducción del valet Página 12 24.09.2010 Dos grandes documentalesHipercrítico SANTIAGO, DE JOAO MOREIRA SALLESTerra 22.09.10 Hoy sábado: PROA Cine estrena una joya del documental: Santiago Impulso Baires 18.09.10 Cae la noche tropical Radar 26.09.10 Continua El Documental Brasileño SANTIAGO Revista Llegás18.10.10 “Santiago” de J. Moreira Salles Weblog Clarín 18.10.2010
American journalist Jon Lee Anderson will once again give a workshop in Buenos Aires; this time, from Octobre 30 to November 3, on the topic of writing reportages. The seminar will take place at Fundación Proa.
Jon Lee Anderson is a lecturer at the IberoamericanNew Journalism Foundation (Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano - FNPI). Over the last decade, this institution has developed several workshops on cultural journalism alongside Fundación Proa. Within the frame of this workshop, Anderson will also give a public lecture at Proa.
