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”.

+ on Ciudades Paralelas: www.ciudadesparalelas.com

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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