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Circuit Bending Workshop. Dio3stu & RURAL C

During the 25th and 26th December 2010 we developed a circuit bending workshop in Villanueva de los Infantes, at RURAL C space, within the project Dio3stu.
The initiative grew out of interest of 3 people to learn this technique of building electronic musical instruments.
So we teach the basic knowledge and we made 2 instruments, one of them more or less finished, called "Chessboard".

For the instrument "Checkerboard" we used a 6 € toy piano. For the chassis we used a box of Ferrero Rocher.
When performing the bending we add a Pitch, 2 filters, a noise and a pitcher of loops.
We leave you a video to watch how it works in one of the tests

Ready to Change. Ljubljana.

We were in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in the forum
" Ready to Change ? "
"Thinking culture as a factor of economic & social innovation"
organized by Sostenuto

The event consisted of three days of talks and activities in 3 main sites, well located, close, and in the center of the city.

The forum program was raised about two blocks, namely:
Open University and Exchange of Experiences.

Open Univerity conferences were about these issues:
Cultural Rights
Economy and Employment
Ecology and Biodiversity
Wealth and Poverty
Social Changes
Urbanity and New Governance

The exchange of experiences focused on the following topics:
Nomadic practices
Art in Context
Ephemeral Practices
Self-management, co-management and Co-organization (New Collectivism)
Space in Between
Utopia and Poetry

* We discuss those lectures we think they´re more interesting:

Simona Levi - she showed La Ex.
We emphasize these ideas:
Remove the middlemen - the artist should be the main agent - the mediator must be a partner, not an exploiter.
As cultural producers we have to sell our skills.

Xavier Comtesse - of a swiss Think Tank.
He offered a positivistic view of Internet, but perhaps too naïve in our view.
Remembering us ideas from 2001 as TAZ by Hackim Bay.
Some interesting ideas of his lecture:
New Territories: Facebook, or a wireless network, as chat and no communication rooms.
The idea of "co-" common goods- between public & private.
The idea of global-local-global (such as rock & roll in Africa)
Internet causes an asymmetry in knowledge. The student knows more than the teacher, or the patient than the doctor.
We showed him the project www.guifi.net. He though it´s very interesting and appropriate to his speech.

Pau Raussel Köster - of Econcult Research Unit, University of Valencia.
He presented some statistics of a team of economists, which showed that the sector of culture and cultural workers is one of the most innovative and where more capacity is developed.
He talked us about the role of innovation in the links between creative sectors and economic growth.
Statistics are not entirely reliable for cultural producers like us, because are based on questionnaires that were distributed to university alumni after 5 years of job placement, self-employed or professional workers.
These studies refer to the cultural sector, missing all those who are neither independent, nor employees, or who work as volunteers or through partnerships. We think there is a large part that stays out of the statistics.

Jaron Rowan, YProductions, he offered a lecture about cultural entrepreneurship. Master of Goldsmith in London stiles. We emphasize this idea:
The creative industries are based on cooperation and creativity, and are those that can promote the commons.
Cultural industries are fed mainly on voluntary work of creative people, as well as "collaboration". The work of these people is characterized by precarity and instable market.
He also raised the issue of copyright and the "commons" with funny anecdotes, like the one of Paris Hilton and her "That's hot", phrase mark she has registered as own.

Sacha Kagan did a "Systems Thinking Game" as a workshop.
Based on "The systems thinking playbook" by Linda Booth Sweeney and Denis Meadows., that you can download from here

* One of the purpose and goals of the Forum was the construction of a Manifesto.
A proposal that generated a debate within and outside the courtroom.
For us it was good to rethink, in group, the definition of "culture" and its applications.
It was attempted to place the cultural sector in society. Showing, in our view, that culture is not motivated by the cultural sector, but rather it is society that is ahead of cultural institutions.

* Within the exchange of experiences of specific proposals, in Spaces in Between, we found some very interesting. There seems to be a trend that responds to typical action models of squatted social centers. As socio-cultural projects of collective gardens and green spaces within the city, local entertainment, projects around the food, etc.

An interesting project, close to the Situationist drift was that of the French Icimeme, with Jacques Boyer

The activation of a CSO Morion in Venice , hrough re-biennale. By Franz Koppelstätter, member form IKA

The project of a group of Serbia, SKART

The intervention of an architect from Ljubljana, Apolonija Sustersic, in a district of Germany: Hustadt project.

The Festval MAPA, in a village of 140 inhabitants of Catalonia, organized by Thomas Aragay.

Citema ,another very interesting project in rural Italy.

Bunker, they present this project for an stoped space inside the city:

One of the best practice experiences was the revival of a park. The association Bunker, host of the Forum, held a party in Tabor Park. A party "verbenera" where they invited to two types of soups, mulled wine, honey liquor and tea. With a player piano music, at night and surrounded by snow.

We briefly presented our conference !Agitation, which we discuss some of our projects of cultural agitation.
You can watch the promo video:

Thank`s to Bunker & Sostenuto people for so good organization

hope changes are caming soon

La Conformidad

Music video for the song "The Conformity" of the Mexican group Capullo.
We had been wanting to do something with these group in Aguascalientes, novo-merengue artist is sweeping across the planet, and we have been engaged almost a year to their songs.
An honor to work with them to make this audiovisual. They recorded and sent the images over the Internet. We edit them and gave them the rate they deserve.
We hope you enjoy it.

"Lunes a la una"

One of the actions of "Lunes a la una" (Mondays at one) group which we collaborated with Cecile Wautelet and April Padilla.
Action performed in Catania in the MAP program Peppiniere.
It´s an office in a city beach, which offered nautical accessories and floats made from waste.
People may experience and show off.

"The 27 of La Esteban" exhibition

We already have done the 27 portraits of Belén Esteban. These 27 were painted by neighbors of Villanueva de los Infantes, as part of the project "Spain's portrait" by José Jurado in the program ofA.I.R Campecho 2010.

COPIA by Os Gru

Click on da image for listen & download the song.

COPIA is Dub music _ Postnuclear Rastafary Entertainment
Samples of Roldán, Mucho Muchacho,Los Ganglios, M.I.A & Blancanieves
Lirycs talk about this kind of songs we already know but we don´t like it.

click here to see hole lyrics

Music & lyrics by Os Gru.
Remasterized by Zas Mooncat Productions

"Torneo Passión" exhibition at Sant Andreu Cívic Centre

We present the documentation of The tournament and some key pieces at Sant Andreu Cívic Centre, in Barcelona.
The exhibition is conceived as a place to play and action. There you will find an official basket and a ball to play. The playbook, where you can create your own plays. Documentation about the original Passión & Aquassión of 1977, and some scenography of the Tournament.
Of course, for those who want to know more, there is also the web site with all the project´s documentation and a video summary of the glossary of plays. Also the odd curiosities for those more interested...

We invite you to a walk around Cívic Centre to participate of Torneo Passión.

From September 3 to October 2.

Visit the project´s site TORNEO PASSIÓN

This business trip has 3 objectives :

« business » objective : for the participants, this travel is an opportunity for professionnal networking. The participants will contact by themselves the people and the organisations they wish to meet. They are autonomous in their planning management.
« teaching » objective : the program will include some workshops and meetings about the theme of European institutions and policy.
« group dynamics » objective : visits, immersion in cultural life, meetings with original and innovative initiatives.

This trip will take place in Brussels during the last week of September, from 27th September to 1st October 2010.

For more info about Sostenuto project, click here.