Fundación PROA
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[C1169AAD] Buenos Aires
Argentina
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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.
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
Wednesday April 28th, 7:00 pm, at Fundación Proa’s Auditorium
Entrance free of charge. Limited capacity
In the context of The Universe of Futurism. 1909-1936 exhibition and as part of the related activities designed by Proa to document the reach that Italian Futurism has had in the diverse artistic disciplines, Giancarlo Schiaffini’s concert will explore the impact that Luigi Russolo’s Ruidisimo revolution has had on musical composition.
Inspired by the life and work of artist Umberto Boccioni, Schiffiani composes Ho veduto volare, with vocal works by Silvia Schiavoni. This distinguished composition is a synthesis of diverse languages in dialogue: writing, images, voices and the live performance of both musicians. The images are old photographs, paintings and fragments that reflect the thoughts of the movement-action present in Boccioni’s work.
The Futurist concert Ho veduto volare is the first in a series of events that will take place at Fundación Proa in relation to The Universe of Futurism. 1909-1936 exhibition. From May, Proa will present a programme of Futurist cinema and guided tours of the show conducted by Art specialists.
The performer
Giancarlo Schiaffini (Rome, 1942) is a music composer, trombone and tube player. He improvises and plays mainly contemporary music and jazz. He collaborated in different compositions with musicians such as John Cage, Karole Armitage, Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi.
Organization and production
Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Buenos Aires