O Faiado in Culturgal

This year we´re the curators who are programming "o Faiado" (the loft) in Culturgal, the Galician Cultural Industries Trade Fair, in Pontevedra.

"O Faiado" is a compendium of creative responses, ways of living, and socio cultural behaviors that happen today. Projects that somehow are developed from or towards the commons*. In these projects, creativity and development tools are linked not only to the "cultural", but also to the economy, permaculture, politics, or the physiological.

Proposals that start from a deserted village, a tale of a furrow, or a wifi network that goes deep 33.786 kilometers into rural independently of communication companies.





We propose activities that will take place mainly on Sunday, December 2, at the Manor House of Culture of Pontevedra (Pazo de la Cultura). Admission is free to all.

We leave here the schedule of the activities we have curated:


TALE OF A FURROW

Kind of activity: artistic intervention.
Person: Xoan Mosquera.
Hours: every day of the fair.
Space: saliña

PERMACULTURE GALICIA

Kind of activity: Itinerary + tasting of  acorn bread and wild edible plants.Person: César Lema.
Hours: 12:30 a 14:30
Space: Autobombo, itinerary and saliña.

INSULTARTE

Kind of activity: project presentation. Insultarte is an open community and web platform where creators and cultural workers discuss aboutcultural sector and its working conditions.
http://insultarte.blogspot.com
Person: Juan Lesta.
Hours: 17:00 - 17:25
Space: Garaxe

MAP SUBJECTIVE OF VALADARES

Kind of activity: Project presentation. http://www.ruchlewicz-dzianach.pl/valladares
Person: Agata Dzianach.
Hours: 17:30 - 17:55
Space: Garaxe

SAUMEDE

Kind of activity: Project presentation. A model of recovery of a deserted village for cultural purposes http://saumede.blogspot.pt/Person: Alex.
Hours: 18:30 - 18:55
Space: Garaxe

GUIFINET IN GALICIA

Kind of activity: Project presentation. Internet self-management. www.guifi.net is currently the largest citizen network in the world. Wireless network that facilitates the interconnection of computers in rural or urban.
Person: Geeksa.
Hours: 19:00 - 19:25
Space: Garaxe

MOUNQUP

Kind of activity: Concert.
MounQup presents a live which she builds music structures from scratching. Elements that compose songs are added as loops. On these bases created in front of the public, voices and angelic choirs move us from the most intimate to the most universal.
Person: Camille.
http://soundcloud.com/jean_paul
Hours: 19:30 - 20:15
Space: Patio

We are wainting for you!


* The commons is a new way to express an old idea: some goods belongs to everyone and form a constellation of resources that must be actively protected and managed for the common good. Commons are the goods we inherited and create together and we hope to leave to future generations.

REMAGOSTO

We organized a Micro_festival called REMAGOSTO.

Click HERE to see this post in the web of RURALC.

Insultarte Conferences

From the 5 to the 8 of November, we were coordinating Insultarte Conferences with Vicerrectorado de Extensión de Bellas Artes (UCM).

These conferences tried to show to students and graduated on Fine Arts how is the professional scene when they finish their degree.

Vanesa gave a talk on legal framework of cultural workers.

Iñaki gave a talk on advices and ideas to "live off art".

Both gave the workshop "I apply".

You can find all documentation in this post at Insultarte.

 

"mais menos" in Guimaraes.

Picture of Miguel Januário´s intervention at textile plant ASA in Guimaraes,  as part of his project http://maismenos.net/




More panoramics in http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=furallefalle

#GlobalNOISE

Since May 2012 we´ve been working on #globalNOISE international coordination. A global potbanging action that happened in 360 cites on the 13 of October of 2012. It was a great adventure. During the process we have met many international activists with whom we have worked and learned many tools and methodologies of collective work. They´re awesomes and we still working with them.

What is #globalnoise? : http://www.globalnoise.net/what-is-globalnoise/
For us it´s a global primitive action: Noise against global scam.

All work and meetings (every Friday for 5 months) have been opened, you can access all inutes and work though the Main pad http://tirorere.titanpad.com/10
The action was coordinated counting directly with the view of local assemblies interested, which are those that decided the content and form of the action.
A slow process but very interesting.
In Spain it was mainly used the slogan "we don´t owe, we don´t pay", which was also used in other places of Europe. Other slogan chosen by many assemblies was #solidarity, in solidarity with other activist movements.

 

poster of #13o Huelva

part of our work was to manage mail accounts and mailing lists, manage twitter accounts (national and international), manage facebook page, manage site www.globalnoise.net and www.live.globalnoise.net (live coverage of the event), web design and poster design:

our posters http://www.flickr.com/photos/68141047@N00/sets/72157631835140775/

otros carteles http://www.flickr.com/photos/89062081@N05/sets/72157631836617258/

Globalnoise was planned as a primitive way to strengthen the network between movements #occupy #ows #yosoy132 #ggi #russianrevolution #15m and other organizations and activist groups on the planet.
A base to create more direct global actions.
Our experience has shown us that it is weaving an international activist network where you share information, experiences, tactics and resources.

We also collaborate with Alfonsito in the realization of the script and audio for this animation:

video "Entradas al salón de Baile" in Prague.

Our video "Entradas al salón de baile" will be screened at Prague (Czech republic) on the frame of  Caras B de la historia del Video Arte en España.  (B sides of video-art history on Spain)
You will be able to watch it on Cervantes Institut, Kino Svetozor  and Městská knihovna

more info: 

Embassy: http://www.embapragacultura.es/?p=1904&lang=cs

Instituto Cervantes from Prague Activities Programe : http://praga.cervantes.es/imagenes/File/programa_otono_2012.pdf

Kino Svetozor http://www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/cykly-festivaly/183/Caras-B/274/2012/vseoakci/
 

Os Gru performing in Pontevedra

On October 11th we will perform with our band  Os Gru , on Liceo Mutante space at Pontevedra, a cultural association that aims to provide an alternative to private proposals that exist in the city by creating a space where self-managed conducting activities promoted by its partners.

We will play with our Dio3Stu machines, with Los Televisores band.

During September 7-8 weekend we´ve curated a programme in  Maus Hábitos (www.maushabitos.com)
cultural intervention space on Porto, with which we have been collaborating and working since 2006.

Programme consists on 3 concerts and 3 DJs sessions.
You can watch some videos on next links:
Internet2 : Cántala España (video-resumen)
Internet2 : El instituto Cervantes
Meneo Live en Maus hábitos 

Os Gru + Dio3stu at Bending Fest. Alg-a Lab

This July 27-28-29 we have been in the Bending Fest in Alg-a Lab (Valladares - Vigo).

Like last year, great with the alga`s, which have the space very well and welcomed us nicely.

The familiars have taught a workshop on circuit bending and modular synths. For here people has built theremins, quad-t, 6D, etc. 
We have been working and updating some of our instruments, as the Briefcase picnic or the arm of the android, which we have incorporated a photosensitive cell in the little finger.

Nice concerts. We loved the "Vestida de ..." group with freshness . Noise Dub-step with a touch of opera and polypoetry

They are a modern group, never tested, understood...

We performed as OsGRu+Dio3Stu  with the set that we have this summer, incorporating diverse pottery. Songs like Android, Vainica Triple, and some new as "flufenoxuron", interspersed with landscapes and bending noise.
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photos by Juanma Lodo

Video by Gus (Alg-a Lab)