The participatory process continues with a Café Conversa and Transqueimada on Friday 13 December
Date 13/12/2019
Place Matadoiro Betanzos
We continue to investigate.
What is the public's desire to create a contemporary work of art in Betanzos based on the legacy of the Irmáns García Naveira? What would we like this work to be about? Should it respond to some contemporary challenge or, on the contrary, should it make a historical review of the philanthropists? These questions are still unanswered and that is why we are making this new call to participate in the next session of the participatory process.
O venres 13 de decembro de 19h a 21h no Matadoiro, situado na Ribeira en Betanzos terá lugar o Café Conversa con que continuamos traballando en torno ao soño colectivo que hai para realizar a futura encarga cidadá, The session will once again be facilitated by the Rexenerando team, a cooperative expert in facilitating group processes, as well as a Transqueimada at the end of the day, as a way of perfomativising tradition.
An action that Andrea Olmedo and Fran Quiroga developed in the research Ruraldecolonized and that will be repeated, with some changes in this day. On the day we will be divided into working groups to discuss the contemporary challenges that the work must address, and how we can take co-responsibility for the care and preservation of the new heritage that has been created. The next session will take place in January and with it we intend to finish off this second phase of the project, and to have thought collectively about this community commission. The selected artist will be decided between February and March.
This pioneering project is the brainchild of Concomitentes, an association that promotes a programme for the production of works of art commissioned by the public. This programme underlines the importance of art in social life. Thanks to the generous support and impulse of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, Concomitentes starts up in Spain with a solid pilot project, which will include projects in Catalonia, the Canary Islands and Madrid, in addition to the one in Betanzos.. Concomitentes is the Spanish version of the French programme Nouveaux Commanditaires. In 1990 the artist François Hers laid the foundations for this programme by drawing up a protocol, in which he outlined the terms of this methodology, whereby civil society can become the comitentes [the group of promoters] of an artist's work.
We continue to investigate.
What is the citizen's wish for a contemporary work of art in Betanzos around the legacy of the García Naveira brothers? What would we like this work to talk about? Should it respond to some contemporary challenge or should it make a historical review of the philanthropists? These doubts remain unresolved, which is why we make this new call to participate in the next session of the participatory process.
On Friday 13th December from 7pm to 9pm in the Matadero, located in the Ribeira in Betanzos, will take place the Café Conversa with which we continue working on the collective dream of carrying out the future citizens' commission, framed in the Concomitentes project, which we remember has made more than 400 works of art throughout Europe and, for the first time, in Galicia.
A day developed by Andrea Olmedo and Fran Quiroga in the Ruraldecolonised research and which will be repeated, with some changes, on this day. During the day we will be divided into working groups that will address the contemporary challenges that the work must address, and how we can share responsibility for the care and preservation of this heritage. The next session will take place in January, which will conclude the second phase of the project, thinking collectively in this citizens' commission. The selected artist will be decided between February and March.
This pioneering project was created by Concomitentes, an association that promotes a programme for the production of works of art commissioned by the public: this initiative emphasises the importance of art in social life. Thanks to the generous support and encouragement of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, Concomitentes starts in Spain with a solid pilot project in which projects will be developed in Catalonia, the Canary Islands and Madrid, in addition to Betanzos.
Concomitentes is the Spanish-language version of the French programme New Commanders, The first steps were taken in 1990 when the artist François Hers drew up a protocol outlining the terms of this methodology whereby civil society could become the curator [the group of patrons] of an artist's work.
See the full photo gallery of the event here.
