Hoja de sala 'Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado'

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WHAT IT IS TO COME HAS ALREADY ARRIVED What is now being recognised as the “first crisis of globalisation”—which broke out in 2008 and which continues apace in a large part of the Western world, especially countries in the south of Europe, Spain among them—has brought to the surface the underlying fragility of states, the ineffectiveness of international governmental structures, the inefficacy and lack of proposals of traditional political parties to prevent or halt its consequences other than demanding more sacrifices from citizens. After analysing the ideological foundations and the actions of the political and economic powers-that-be which have unleashed the crisis, there is a growing consciousness in wide social circles of the idea that profound transformations are called for and that people themselves must be the active agents in these changes. But to realise and develop these changes requires a total rearming of ideas that will enable us to imagine possible ways out. From this premise, the exhibition What It Is To Come Has Already Arrived brings together a number of artists and collectives from different areas whose works and activity engage with or point towards possible paths for the constitution of social structures, urban habitats, economic formulae and forms of organisation of various collectives other than those currently in force today. The show is divided into three closely interrelated sections. The first, Reactiving Utopia, addresses the possibility of imagining new utopian horizons as opposed to the idea of an immutable reality defined by Neoliberalism. Mathias Poledna filmed a documentary on Fondazione Feltrinelli, which safeguards one of the world’s most important archives on the history of twentieth century workers movements. In his micronations, Peter Coffin outlines the history of initiatives that have proclaimed the creation of independent sovereign states. Claire Pentecost explores the possibility of replacing the standards of money and gold for what she calls “soil-erg”: ingots of soil or compost as a standard for economic exchange. The Czech artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos has created a large archive that examines the relationship between objects that have been used as forms of currency throughout history. In Conocimiento común Sarah Browne has collected a series of plants that are pressed between pages in books that represent a metaphoric index of interests. Estudios utópicos contains an archive of images related with an academic microcommunity whose members have come together to study utopia and to put it into practice. In the video La fabricación de utopía, the artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen analyse four communities whose philosophy combines features of old-school hippy communes with new models of self-sustainable ecovillages. In Nouvelle Science Vague Fiction, Regina de Miguel undertakes a reflection on the scientific image and on the legitimisation that science makes of its discourse. The Temple Crew is a collective that embraces collaborations from hundreds of people. Its work lies in materialising ephemeral public art structures that seek to create places for reflection or celebration. In her work Anna Moreno analyses the relationship between art and politics, activism, democracy and civil rights and the role played by art practices as an instrument for social change. The second section, Modernism, An Unfinished Project?, grounds its starting point in proposals dating from the 1960s that, while based on faith in the notion of progress inherited from modernism, put forward different forms of development and cohabitation for the immediate future, and investigate their possible validity when it comes to conceiving new models for the configuration of everyday life which can activate sustainable development. The veteran Romanian architect Yona Friedman has developed a major theoretical corpus that proposes a kind of city that is not defined by its uses, but by its collective possibilities and which is frontally opposed to the ploys of land speculation, the deterioration of public services and the disappearance of civil rights in detriment to the economic benefit of an elite. In the documentary Une ville à Chandigarh, the film director Alain Tanner narrates the changing fortunes of Le Corbusier’s design and construction of what was to be a new capital of the province of Punjab, in India. With his images and a commentary by the writer John Berger, Tanner constructs an incisive essay on how the planning of the city can contribute to the cultural and socio-economic progress of its inhabitants. Meanwhile, the manipulated photos by Dionisio González digitally reconstruct some of the buildings which Le Corbusier was never able to build in Chandigarh, with the purpose of rescuing from oblivion a project that aspired to generate other models of coexistence. In his painting David Diao appropriates spaces created by architects that incarnate rationalist utopias, as in the case of Philip Johnson among others, to compose a series of cartographies on modernism where he underlines its contradictions and the weakness of a large part of its certainties. The video by the Finnish artist Mika Taanila centres on a model of a house conceived in the 1950s, with a groundbreaking futurist design, economic and simple to build which represented the spirit of progress, well-being at a low cost and a faith in the future that characterised that time. Finally, the third section, What It Is To Come Has Already Arrived, showcases various works and experiences that reflect on or propose strategies for intervention and collaboration to trigger change, and the quest for a participative democratisation of structures with a new style. These approaches mean that citizens must not only demand from the political class and from economic powers a respect for the rights conquered but they must also take an active role in the construction of new forms of cohabitation. Thus, the Chilean filmmaker Cecilia Barriga, in her work Tres instantes, casts a spotlight on three different scenes that crystallised public discontent: Madrid, May 2011, during the protests known as 15M; New York, during Occupy Wall Street, and Santiago de Chile, where the movement of secondary school students Toma el colegio took over schools pacifically for seven months in 2012; the film takes a look at the processes of self-organisation and cooperation that made it possible to sustain them over time. Also on show are documents and materials used in the protests in Madrid which are on loan from the 15M Files. Alongside these, the small paintings made by the Romanian artist Mona Vatamanu and the Swiss artist Florin Tudor reproduce images of protests and scenes of police repression in different countries to underscore the interchangeability and similarity in forms of reaction. These works engaging with the idea of citizen and community power are further reinforced by Carolina Caycedo, who managed to survive between 2002 and 2009 exclusively on bartering, and her proposal for the exchange of a book on her experiences for another brought by visitors to the exhibition. On the other hand, there are projects by two teams of architects: by Druot, Lacaton & Vassal, undertaken in Paris and which has become a benchmark for refurbishment, saving and sustainability; and another one currently under construction by the Spanish team Ecosistema urbano, for a school in Italy, where students are involved in its environmental functioning as part of the educational programme. Finally, Zemos98, a collective focused on the production of contents and tools for the field of education, communication and visual creation, proposes a commitment with free culture and collaborative networks in opposition to productive models currently in force in our society. SALAS 1-4-5 24.01.15 - 03.05.15 LO QUE HA DE VENIR YA HA LLEGADO WHAT IT IS TO COME HAS ALREADY ARRIVED Actividades: / Activities: Durante la semana del 2 al 6 de febrero la artista Cecilia Barriga hará presentaciones de su película Tres instantes, un grito en Institutos de Educación Secundaria de la ciudad y provincia de León, dinamizando a través de video-forums con los estudiantes los contenidos del documental. El jueves 5 de febrero a las 20:00 h. Barriga será la invitada al Grupo de Dialogo sobre Cine Contemporáneo en el MUSAC manteniendo después un diálogo con los asistentes a la proyección de la película. During the week of February 2-6 the artist Cecilia Barriga will make presentations of her film Tres instantes, un grito in various high schools in the city and province of León, streamlining the contents of the documentary through video-forums with students. On Thursday, February 5 at 8:00 p.m. Barriga will be the guest for the Discussion Group on Contemporary Cinema at MUSAC, thus maintaining a dialogue with the attending public of the film.

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Cecilia Barriga, Sarah Browne, Carolina Caycedo, Peter Coffin, David Diao, Druot Lacaton & Vassal, Ecosistema urbano, Yona Friedman, Dionisio González, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Regina de Miguel, Anna Moreno, Claire Pentecost, Mathias Poledna, Mika Taanila, Alain Tanner, The Temple Crew, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, ZEMOS98, Documentación del Archivo 15M. 24 de enero - 3 de mayo de 2015 Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado es una exposición que trata del momento que estamos viviendo, tiempo en el que un radical malestar atraviesa a la sociedad tras años de la que se califica como la primera gran crisis de la globalización. Una crisis que ha puesto en primer plano la fragilidad de los estados y la incapacidad de las estructuras gubernamentales internacionales para impedir, frenar o reorientar sus consecuencias más allá del sacrificio de sus ciudadanos. www.musac.es

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What It Is to Come has already arrIved

What is now being recognised as the “first crisis of globalisation”—which broke out in 2008 and which continues apace in a large part of the Western world, especially countries in the south of Europe, Spain among them—has brought to the surface the underlying fragility of states, the ineffectiveness of international governmental structures, the inefficacy and lack of proposals of traditional political parties to prevent or halt its consequences other than demanding more sacrifices from citizens.

After analysing the ideological foundations and the actions of the political and economic powers-that-be which have unleashed the crisis, there is a growing consciousness in wide social circles of the idea that profound transformations are called for and that people themselves must be the active agents in these changes.

But to realise and develop these changes requires a total rearming of ideas that will enable us to imagine possible ways out. From this premise, the exhibition What It Is To Come Has Already Arrived brings together a number of artists and collectives from different areas whose works and activity engage with or point towards possible paths for the constitution of social structures, urban habitats, economic formulae and forms of organisation of various collectives other than those currently in force today.

The show is divided into three closely interrelated sections. The first, Reactiving Utopia, addresses the possibility of imagining new utopian horizons as opposed to the idea of an immutable reality defined by Neoliberalism. Mathias Poledna filmed a documentary on Fondazione Feltrinelli, which safeguards one of the world’s most important archives on the history of twentieth century workers movements. In his micronations, Peter Coffin outlines the history of initiatives that have proclaimed the creation of independent sovereign states. Claire Pentecost explores the possibility of replacing the standards of money and gold for what she calls “soil-erg”: ingots of soil or compost as a standard for economic exchange. The Czech artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos has created a large archive that examines the relationship between objects that have been used as forms of currency throughout history. In Conocimiento común Sarah Browne has collected a series of plants that are pressed between pages in books that represent a metaphoric index of interests. Estudios utópicos contains an archive of images related with an academic microcommunity whose

members have come together to study utopia and to put it into practice. In the video La fabricación de utopía, the artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen analyse four communities whose philosophy combines features of old-school hippy communes with new models of self-sustainable ecovillages. In Nouvelle Science Vague Fiction, Regina de Miguel undertakes a reflection on the scientific image and on the legitimisation that science makes of its discourse. The Temple Crew is a collective that embraces collaborations from hundreds of people. Its work lies in materialising ephemeral public art structures that seek to create places for reflection or celebration. In her work Anna Moreno analyses the relationship between art and politics, activism, democracy and civil rights and the role played by art practices as an instrument for social change.

The second section, Modernism, An Unfinished Project?, grounds its starting point in proposals dating from the 1960s that, while based on faith in the notion of progress inherited from modernism, put forward different forms of development and cohabitation for the immediate future, and investigate their possible validity when it comes to conceiving new models for the configuration of everyday life which can activate sustainable development. The veteran Romanian architect Yona Friedman has developed a major theoretical corpus that proposes a kind of city that is not defined by its uses, but by its collective possibilities and which is frontally opposed to the ploys of land speculation, the deterioration of public services and the disappearance of civil rights in detriment to the economic benefit of an elite. In the documentary Une ville à Chandigarh, the film director Alain Tanner narrates the changing fortunes of Le Corbusier’s design and construction of what was to be a new capital of the province of Punjab, in India. With his images and a commentary by the writer John Berger, Tanner constructs an incisive essay on how the planning of the city can contribute to the cultural and socio-economic progress of its inhabitants. Meanwhile, the manipulated photos by Dionisio González digitally reconstruct some of the buildings which Le Corbusier was never able to build in Chandigarh, with the purpose of rescuing from oblivion a project that aspired to generate other models of coexistence. In his painting David Diao appropriates spaces created by architects that incarnate rationalist utopias, as in the case of Philip Johnson among others, to compose a series of cartographies on modernism where he underlines its contradictions and the weakness of a large part of its certainties. The video by the Finnish artist Mika Taanila centres on a model of a house conceived in the 1950s, with a groundbreaking futurist

design, economic and simple to build which represented the spirit of progress, well-being at a low cost and a faith in the future that characterised that time.

Finally, the third section, What It Is To Come Has Already Arrived, showcases various works and experiences that reflect on or propose strategies for intervention and collaboration to trigger change, and the quest for a participative democratisation of structures with a new style. These approaches mean that citizens must not only demand from the political class and from economic powers a respect for the rights conquered but they must also take an active role in the construction of new forms of cohabitation. Thus, the Chilean filmmaker Cecilia Barriga, in her work Tres instantes, casts a spotlight on three different scenes that crystallised public discontent: Madrid, May 2011, during the protests known as 15M; New York, during Occupy Wall Street, and Santiago de Chile, where the movement of secondary school students Toma el colegio took over schools pacifically for seven months in 2012; the film takes a look at the processes of self-organisation and cooperation that made it possible to sustain them over time. Also on show are documents and materials used in the protests in Madrid which are on loan from the 15M Files. Alongside these, the small paintings made by the Romanian artist Mona Vatamanu and the Swiss artist Florin Tudor reproduce images of protests and scenes of police repression in different countries to underscore the interchangeability and similarity in forms of reaction. These works engaging with the idea of citizen and community power are further reinforced by Carolina Caycedo, who managed to survive between 2002 and 2009 exclusively on bartering, and her proposal for the exchange of a book on her experiences for another brought by visitors to the exhibition. On the other hand, there are projects by two teams of architects: by Druot, Lacaton & Vassal, undertaken in Paris and which has become a benchmark for refurbishment, saving and sustainability; and another one currently under construction by the Spanish team Ecosistema urbano, for a school in Italy, where students are involved in its environmental functioning as part of the educational programme. Finally, Zemos98, a collective focused on the production of contents and tools for the field of education, communication and visual creation, proposes a commitment with free culture and collaborative networks in opposition to productive models currently in force in our society.

SALAS 1-4-524.01.15 - 03.05.15

lo que ha de venIr ya ha llegado

What It Is to Come has already arrIved

Actividades: / Activities:

Durante la semana del 2 al 6 de febrero la artista Cecilia Barriga hará presentaciones de su película Tres instantes, un grito en Institutos de Educación Secundaria de la ciudad y provincia de León, dinamizando a través de video-forums con los estudiantes los contenidos del documental.

El jueves 5 de febrero a las 20:00 h. Barriga será la invitada al Grupo de Dialogo sobre Cine Contemporáneo en el MUSAC manteniendo después un diálogo con los asistentes a la proyección de la película.

During the week of February 2-6 the artist Cecilia Barriga will make presentations of her film Tres instantes, un grito in various high schools in the city and province of León, streamlining the contents of the documentary through video-forums with students.

On Thursday, February 5 at 8:00 p.m. Barriga will be the guest for the Discussion Group on Contemporary Cinema at MUSAC, thus maintaining a dialogue with the attending public of the film.

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La que se ha calificado como la “primera crisis de la globalización” —que estalló en 2008 y en la que buena parte de Occidente continúa sumida, en especial los países del sur de Europa y entre ellos España— ha puesto en primer plano la fragilidad de los estados, la incapacidad de las estructuras gubernamentales internacionales, la ineficacia y la falta de propuestas de los partidos políticos tradicionales para impedir, frenar o reorientar sus consecuencias más allá de exigir el sacrificio de sus ciudadanos.

Tras analizar los fundamentos ideológicos y las actuaciones de los poderes políticos y económicos que la han desencadenado, está calando en amplios sectores sociales la idea de que son necesarias profundas transformaciones y que los ciudadanos deben ser agentes activos de esos cambios. Pero su concreción y desarrollo demanda un rearme de ideas que nos permita imaginar las posibles salidas. Desde este punto de partida la exposición Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado reúne a una serie de artistas y colectivos de diferentes ámbitos cuyas obras y actividad reflexionan o señalan posibles caminos para la constitución de estructuras sociales, habitats urbanos, fórmulas económicas y modos de organización de las colectividades distintas de las que imperan hoy.

La exposición se estructura en tres capítulos conectados entre sí. El primero, Reactivar la utopía, aborda la posibilidad de imaginar nuevas configuraciones u horizontes utópicos frente a la idea de una realidad inamovible delineada por el neoliberalismo. Mathias Poledna filma un documental sobre la Fondazione Feltrinelli, que custodia uno de los archivos más importantes del mundo sobre la historia de los movimientos obreros del siglo XX. Peter Coffin, traza en sus micronaciones la historia de iniciativas que han proclamado la creación de estados soberanos independientes. Claire Pentecost plantea la posibilidad de cambiar los patrones moneda y oro por lo que llama “soil-erg”: bloques de tierra o compost patrón de intercambio económico. El artista checo Stefanos Tsivopoulos ha creado un gran archivo que se adentra en la relación de objetos que se han utilizado como moneda a lo largo de la historia. En la obra Conocimiento común Sarah Browne reúne una serie de plantas que han sido prensadas entre páginas de libros que representan un metafórico índice de intereses. Estudios utópicos muestra un archivo de imágenes relacionadas con una microcomunidad académica cuyos integrantes se han unido en torno al estudio y la práctica de la utopía. Los artistas

Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, en el vídeo La fabricación de utopía, analizan cuatro comunidades cuya filosofía combina características de las comunas hippies de la vieja escuela con nuevos modelos de ecoaldeas autosostenibles. En Nouvelle Science Vague Fiction, Regina de Miguel traza una reflexión sobre la imagen científica y sobre la legitimación que la ciencia hace de su discurso. The Temple Crew es un colectivo en el que llegan a colaborar cientos de personas para la realización de estructuras de arte público de carácter efímero, que buscan crear lugares para la reflexión o la celebración. En su trabajo Anna Moreno analiza la relación del arte con la política, el activismo, la democracia y los derechos civiles o el papel de las prácticas artísticas como instrumento de cambio social.

El segundo capítulo, La modernidad, ¿un proyecto inconcluso?, arranca con propuestas desarrolladas en los años 60 que, basadas en la fe en el progreso herederas de la modernidad, idearon formas de desarrollo y de convivencia, e indaga sobre su posible vigencia a la hora de buscar nuevos modelos en la configuración de la vida cotidiana y activadores de un desarrollo sostenible. El veterano arquitecto rumano Yona Friedman ha desarrollado un importante corpus teórico que propone un tipo de ciudades que no se definen por sus usos, sino por sus posibilidades colectivas y que se opone frontalmente a las maniobras de especulación del suelo, al deterioro de los servicios públicos o a la desaparición de los derechos ciudadanos frente a los beneficios económicos de las élites. El director de cine Alain Tanner, en el documental Une ville à Chandigarh, narra las peripecias de la edificación por Le Corbusier de la que habría de ser nueva capital de la provincia del Punjab, en India. Tanner construye, con sus imágenes y los comentarios del escritor John Berger, un incisivo ensayo sobre cómo la planificación de una ciudad puede contribuir al progreso cultural y socio-económico de sus habitantes. Por su parte las fotografías manipuladas de Dionisio González reconstruyen digitalmente algunos de los edificios que Le Corbusier no pudo llevar a cabo en Chandigarh, con la intención de rescatar del olvido unos proyectos que aspiraban a generar otros modelos de convivencia. A través de su pintura David Diao se apropia de espacios creados por arquitectos que encarnaron las utopías racionalistas, caso de Philip Johnson entre otros, para componer una serie de cartografías sobre la modernidad donde señala sus contradicciones y la fragilidad de buena parte de sus certezas. El vídeo del finlandés Mika Taanila se centra en un modelo de casa que fue diseñado en los años 50,

de aspecto futurista y rompedor, económico y de sencilla construcción, que encarnaba el espíritu de progreso, bienestar a bajo coste y fe en el futuro que caracterizó aquellos años.

Por último, en el tercer capítulo, titulado El futuro ya está aquí, se han reunidos trabajos y experiencias que reflejan o proponen estrategias de intervención y colaboración para provocar cambios, a la búsqueda de una democratización de las estructuras, participativa y de nuevo cuño. Estos planteamientos suponen que la ciudadanía no sólo debe exigir a la clase política y los poderes económicos el respeto de los derechos conquistados sino que también ha de asumir una un papel activo en la construcción de nuevas formas de convivencia. Así, la cineasta chilena Cecilia Barriga, en su obra Tres instantes, coloca el foco en escenarios donde cristalió el descontento ciudadano: Madrid, mayo de 2011, durante las protestas bautizadas como el 15M; Nueva York, durante las concentraciones Ocuppy Wall Street, y Santiago de Chile, donde el movimiento de estudiantes de enseñanza media Toma el colegio tomó pacíficamente los centros educativos durante siete meses de 2012; la película muestra los procesos de autoorganización y cooperación que los hicieron posibles. También se han reunido documentos y materiales utilizados en las protestas de Madrid y que han sido cedidos por el archivo 15M. Junto a estos, los pequeños cuadros realizados por la rumana Mona Vatamanu y el suizo Florin Tudor reproducen imágenes de manifestaciones y escenas de represión policial en diferentes países para remarcar la intercambiabilidad y el parecido de los comportamientos. Junto a estas obras que aluden al protagonismo de los ciudadanos, Carolina Caycedo, que logró sobrevivir entre 2002 y 2009 exclusivamente a base del trueque, propone el intercambio de un libro sobre sus vivencias por otro, aportado por el visitante de la exposición. De otro lado, se presentan los proyectos de dos equipos de arquitectos: de Druot, Lacaton & Vassal, el llevado a cabo en París y que se ha convertido en referente de rehabilitación, ahorro y sostenibilidad; y el que se encuentra en fase de construcción, del equipo español Ecosistema urbano, para un centro pedagógico en Italia, donde se implica a los alumnos en su funcionamiento medioambiental como parte del programa educativo. En otra línea, Zemos98, colectivo centrado en la producción de contenidos y de herramientas para el ámbito de la educación, la comunicación y la creación visual propone el compromiso con la cultura libre y las redes colaborativas en oposición a los modelos productivos imperantes en nuestra sociedad.

Organiza / Organized by: Este proyecto ha sido co-producido con CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla, España) y Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (Donostia-San Sebastián, España). This Project has been co-produced with CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain) and Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain).

Artistas / Artists: Cecilia Barriga Sarah Browne Carolina Caycedo Peter Coffin David Diao Druot Lacaton & Vassal Ecosistema urbano Yona Friedman Dionisio González Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen

Regina de Miguel Anna Moreno Claire Pentecost Mathias Poledna Mika Taanila Alain Tanner The Temple Crew Stefanos Tsivopoulos Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor ZEMOS98 Documentación del archivo 15M / 15M Files.

Portada / Cover:

CECILIA BARRIGA. Fotograma del vídeo Tres instantes, un grito (2013). Cortesía de la

artista / Still of the film Tres instantes, un grito (2013). Courtesy of the artist

www.musac.esMusac. Avda. Reyes Leoneses, 24.24003, León. T. 987 090 000

Comisarado / Curatorship: Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro

Coordinación / Coordination: Helena López Camacho

Fechas / Dates: Del 24 de enero al 3 de mayo de 2015 January 24 – May 3, 2015

Salas / Halls: 1-4-5

lo que ha de venIr ya ha llegado

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La modernidad, ¿un proyecto inconcluso?Modernism, An Unfinished Project?

Reactivar la utopíaReactiving Utopia

El futuro ya está aquíWhat It Is To Come Has Already Arrived