Publication: Te seguirá la ciudad: una historia contada con libros, fotolibros y no libros
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2019
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“Te seguirá la ciudad: una historia contada con libros, fotolibros y no libros” es un proyecto expositivo que procede de una conferencia performance realizada en diferentes contextos.
“Te seguirá la ciudad” habla de la vida en los centros urbanos a partir de publicaciones de artista, fanzines y fotolibros aunque también hay algunas piezas que se salen de estas categorías. La mayoría son obras bibliográficas que no suelen tenerse en cuenta para documentarse sobre un tema. Sin embargo, la capacidad de contar de estas publicaciones es grande y es lo que se pretende explorar con esta pieza performativa y, ahora, con la exposición que se inaugura en las vitrinas del MUSAC.
La ciudad sirve de excusa para, por un lado, exponer la capacidad de contar que tienen las ediciones no convencionales y, por otro, explorar algunas cuestiones que nos preocupan, como habitantes del planeta, y en las que las instituciones artísticas están inmersas. Las condiciones de vida en los grandes núcleos urbanos, la contaminación y los espacios verdes que son de todas, la inmigración y la formación de comunidades, el racismo, las exclusiones generadas por el binarismo sexual, la gentrificación, la pobreza, la protesta, la disidencia sexual, la fiesta y la lucha… Son asuntos que aparecen reflejados en la performance, con la presencia de los libros que van formando el plano de una ciudad imaginaria, y que ahora, por primera vez, se convierten en instalación.
Esta exposición tiene dos formas de verse. En las paredes del museo, por supuesto, pero, sobre todo, en las mesas situadas frente a las vitrinas en donde cualquiera puede pasar las páginas y adentrase en las publicaciones. La performance sufre una suerte de congelación al quedar fijada pero lo que aporta esta instalación en el MUSAC es que el público pueda detenerse en las piezas bibliográficas, explorarlas, leer los textos que acompañan esta muestra y hacer suyas las historias además de crear las suyas propias. En este proyecto leer es la mejor manera de mirar pero, al mismo tiempo, la forma de leer muchas de las obras que aquí se muestran es mirando sus imágenes.
Como performance se estrenó en la Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa, con la colaboración de Filipa Valladares de la Librería STET, en junio de 2017, y luego se ha repetido, aunque nunca es lo mismo, en varios lugares hasta llegar al MUSAC convertida en una exposición/instalación.
Después de Lisboa “Te seguirá la ciudad” fue acogida, el 1 de octubre de 2017, por la amable invitación de Nona Domínguez y Ginés Martínez, en la Feria de Edición Independiente “Inclasificables” que se celebra en la Biblioteca Pública Casa de las Conchas de Salamanca. Allí las publicaciones que se manejan en la performance se encontraron con muchas amigas y hermanas. Fue en esa ocasión cuando Araceli Corbo, bibliotecaria en el MUSAC, vio la actuación y pensó, con esa generosidad y ese deseo de compartir tan suyos, que podría convertirse en una exposición para las vitrinas del hall de entrada del museo.
También en 2017 “Te seguirá la ciudad” se representó dentro de dos clases abiertas, con las profesoras Selina Blasco y Mar Mendoza, en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la UCM. En realidad, aunque se estrenó en Lisboa, está concebida como un instrumento que la Biblioteca de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la UCM utiliza para acercar sus colecciones a la comunidad académica. Así que siempre fue pensada para hacerse en un aula, entendiendo aula de una manera amplia como el lugar en el que se encuentran personas para aprender juntas. Como además somos un espacio abierto a todo el mundo, porque pertenecemos a una institución de educación pública y nos sentimos obligadas a devolver a la sociedad el esfuerzo que hace para que existamos, y la aspiración de cualquier biblioteca es salir de sus muros y llegar a donde está la gente, no hemos dejado de viajar y de encontrarnos con otros públicos.
El 19 de abril de 2018, por mediación de Arantza Mariskal, la performance se hizo en Ubik, la Biblioteca de Creación de Tabakalera-Donosita, con la colaboración de la Biblioteca del Museo de San Telmo, y de su bibliotecaria Izaskun Aramburu, que prestó algunos fotolibros pertenecientes a la colección de Gabriela Cendoya. El 13 de septiembre de ese mismo año, por invitación de la artista y agente cultural Sara Huete, se pudo ver en el Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo, en Santander. Por último, el 19 de noviembre de 2018, se interpretó, gracias a la generosidad de Ana Longoni y de todo el personal de la Biblioteca, en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), en el marco del programa “Las Paredes hablan”, sobre disidencias en el barrio de Lavapiés. Allí, en Madrid, hubo una parte previa en la que algunos documentos fueron caminando, en las mochilas de los asistentes, desde la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la UCM hasta el MNCARS mientras que otras obras fueron prestadas por el propio museo.
Ahora, “Te seguirá la ciudad” es un texto. La performance se convirtió en exposición y ésta devino una suerte de ensayo. Un juego de escrituras y lecturas expandidas que todavía no ha terminado de mutar.
"The city will follow you: a story told with books, photobooks and no books" is an exhibition project that comes from a performance conference held in different contexts. "The city will follow you" talks about life in urban centers from artist publications, fanzines and photobooks, although there are also some pieces that fall outside these categories. Most are bibliographic works that are not usually taken into account to document a subject. However, the counting capacity of these publications is great and it is what is intended to be explored with this performance piece and, now, with the exhibition that opens in the MUSAC showcases. The city serves as an excuse to, on the one hand, expose the ability to count that unconventional editions have and, on the other, explore some issues that concern us, as inhabitants of the planet, and in which artistic institutions are immersed. Living conditions in large urban centers, pollution and green spaces that belong to all, immigration and the formation of communities, racism, exclusions generated by sexual binarism, gentrification, poverty, protest, sexual dissent, the party and the fight ... These are issues that appear reflected in the performance, with the presence of the books that form the plan of an imaginary city, and that now, for the first time, become an installation. After Lisbon, "The city will follow you" was received, on October 1, 2017, by the kind invitation of Nona Domínguez and Ginés Martínez, at the Independent Edition Fair "Unclassifiable" held at the Casa de las Conchas Public Library of Salamanca. There the publications that are handled in the performance met many friends and sisters. It was on that occasion when Araceli Corbo, librarian at MUSAC, saw the performance and thought, with that generosity and desire to share so much of his own, that it could become an exhibition for the showcases in the museum's entrance hall. Also in 2017, “The City Will Follow You” was performed within two open classes, with professors Selina Blasco and Mar Mendoza, at the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts. In fact, although it was released in Lisbon, it is conceived as an instrument that the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts Library uses to bring its collections closer to the academic community. So it was always designed to be done in a classroom, understanding the classroom in a broad way as the place where people meet to learn together. As we are also a space open to everyone, because we belong to a public education institution and we feel obliged to return to society the effort it makes so that we exist, and the aspiration of any library is to get out of its walls and reach where the people are, we have not stopped traveling and meeting other audiences. On April 19, 2018, through Arantza Mariskal, the performance was held in Ubik, the Tabakalera-Donosita Creation Library, with the collaboration of the San Telmo Museum Library, and its librarian Izaskun Aramburu, who lent some photobooks belonging to the Gabriela Cendoya collection. On September 13 of that same year, at the invitation of the artist and cultural agent Sara Huete, it could be seen at the Doctor Madrazo Cultural Center in Santander. Finally, on November 19, 2018, thanks to the generosity of Ana Longoni and all the Library staff, it was performed at the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (MNCARS), within the framework of the “Las Paredes” program. they talk ”, about dissent in the Lavapiés neighborhood. There, in Madrid, there was a previous part in which some documents were walking, in the backpacks of the attendees, from the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts to the MNCARS, while other works were loaned by the museum itself. Now, "The city will follow you" is a text. The performance became an exhibition and it became a kind of rehearsal. A set of expanded scriptures and readings that has not yet fihished his mutation.
"The city will follow you: a story told with books, photobooks and no books" is an exhibition project that comes from a performance conference held in different contexts. "The city will follow you" talks about life in urban centers from artist publications, fanzines and photobooks, although there are also some pieces that fall outside these categories. Most are bibliographic works that are not usually taken into account to document a subject. However, the counting capacity of these publications is great and it is what is intended to be explored with this performance piece and, now, with the exhibition that opens in the MUSAC showcases. The city serves as an excuse to, on the one hand, expose the ability to count that unconventional editions have and, on the other, explore some issues that concern us, as inhabitants of the planet, and in which artistic institutions are immersed. Living conditions in large urban centers, pollution and green spaces that belong to all, immigration and the formation of communities, racism, exclusions generated by sexual binarism, gentrification, poverty, protest, sexual dissent, the party and the fight ... These are issues that appear reflected in the performance, with the presence of the books that form the plan of an imaginary city, and that now, for the first time, become an installation. After Lisbon, "The city will follow you" was received, on October 1, 2017, by the kind invitation of Nona Domínguez and Ginés Martínez, at the Independent Edition Fair "Unclassifiable" held at the Casa de las Conchas Public Library of Salamanca. There the publications that are handled in the performance met many friends and sisters. It was on that occasion when Araceli Corbo, librarian at MUSAC, saw the performance and thought, with that generosity and desire to share so much of his own, that it could become an exhibition for the showcases in the museum's entrance hall. Also in 2017, “The City Will Follow You” was performed within two open classes, with professors Selina Blasco and Mar Mendoza, at the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts. In fact, although it was released in Lisbon, it is conceived as an instrument that the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts Library uses to bring its collections closer to the academic community. So it was always designed to be done in a classroom, understanding the classroom in a broad way as the place where people meet to learn together. As we are also a space open to everyone, because we belong to a public education institution and we feel obliged to return to society the effort it makes so that we exist, and the aspiration of any library is to get out of its walls and reach where the people are, we have not stopped traveling and meeting other audiences. On April 19, 2018, through Arantza Mariskal, the performance was held in Ubik, the Tabakalera-Donosita Creation Library, with the collaboration of the San Telmo Museum Library, and its librarian Izaskun Aramburu, who lent some photobooks belonging to the Gabriela Cendoya collection. On September 13 of that same year, at the invitation of the artist and cultural agent Sara Huete, it could be seen at the Doctor Madrazo Cultural Center in Santander. Finally, on November 19, 2018, thanks to the generosity of Ana Longoni and all the Library staff, it was performed at the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (MNCARS), within the framework of the “Las Paredes” program. they talk ”, about dissent in the Lavapiés neighborhood. There, in Madrid, there was a previous part in which some documents were walking, in the backpacks of the attendees, from the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts to the MNCARS, while other works were loaned by the museum itself. Now, "The city will follow you" is a text. The performance became an exhibition and it became a kind of rehearsal. A set of expanded scriptures and readings that has not yet fihished his mutation.
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Esta publicación está asociada a la exposición "Te seguirá la ciudad: una historia contada con libros, fotolibros y no libros", celebrada en el MUSAC, León, del 28 de septiembre de 2019 al 19 de enero de 2020. Comisariada por Javier Pérez Iglesias, coordinada por Ana Madrid Villalón (MUSAC) y con el diseño de Miguel Núñez Jiménez.