QUAM 2012 | MECHANISMS OF PERMEABILITY
Art, education and territory

05-06.10.2012

FORUM QUAM 2012
Seminar and discussion forum on artistic practices, educational programmes and social space.

There are certain practices which bring together art, education and activism in social space. Such practices have been incorporated within institutional spaces, both artistic and educational. Relationships between the two (institutional spaces) may be based upon a space of negotiation, responding to the need to expand their boundaries, and to the will to connect with the social context . If the aim is to introduce new dynamics, the relationship between art institution and educational institution must be realised through the fields of research, production and debate, and not only through the exhibition. When promoting projects connecting art and education, the objectives of each of these spheres, and of the commons, must also be considered. Different rhythms, different processes, different results may, at a certain point, synthesize, conceptualize and formalize experiences associated with both. Ways of doing which multiply through inter-relation.

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TANKERS en la plaza de Vic. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. MEDIA TANKER con Dj Latimer Y NeoKinok.tv. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. QUAM 2011 | WIKPOLIS

PLACE: ACVic. C. Sant Francesc, 1 Vic

WORKSHOPS. From 10.07.2011 to 15.07.2011

Workshop 1 “Collective mapping and politics of space”. Directed by Iconoclasistas (Pablo Ares, Julia Risler)
With participation of: Alan Costa, Andrea Olmedo, Blanca Pérez, Borja Fermoselle, Daniel Cecilia, Daniel Pérez, Emanuela Bove, Eva Marichalar, Feliu Fuster, Karin Jaschke, Lina Maria Castañeda, Lisa Lazzarini, Mariana Camacho, Mercé Ortega, Nora Arias, Sara Caeiro, Silvana-Elisabeta Râpeaunu, Sonia Camallonga, Veronica Luyo y Veronica Toscano.

Workshop 2 “Strategies of creation and collective architectures that influence the physical and social space”. Directed by Straddle3 – David Juárez Latimer-Knowles, Santiago Cirugeda, Diego Paris -Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv and the collaboration of La Torratxa Centre Social Autogestionat.
With participation of:Alba Gou, Albert Castells, Ana Feijão, Ana Raquel Cevallos, Angela Pachón, Antonia Suñer, Arnau Roquer, David Martí, Francisco Esteva, Germán Castro, John Alejandro Rico, Jordi Farrés, Juan Martin, León Arellano, Marta Carrasco, Mia Guiteres, Monica Prats, Paula Andrea Bermúdez, Sergi Selvas Gardeñas y Yaiza García.

Images from QUAM 2011. FORUM + WORKSHOPS. From 10.07.2011 to 15.07.2011

AGRO TANKER. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. INFO TANKER. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. GASTRO TANKER. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. BARRA TANKER / GASTRO TANKER / INFO TANKER. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. TANKERS en la plaza de Vic. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. BARRA TANKER. TALLER: Estrategias de creación y arquitecturas colectivas. Straddle3 - David Juárez Latimer-Knowles con la colaboración de Santiago Cirugeda - Diego Peris de Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv, La Torratxa, Centro Cultural Autogestionado. PRESENTACIÓN DE PROYECTOS. TALLER: Mapeo colectivo y políticas del espacio. Iconoclasistas PRESENTACIÓN DE PROYECTOS. TALLER: Mapeo colectivo y políticas del espacio. Iconoclasistas

Cartografía del espacio en movimiento contínuo From a total of 40 proposals presented to the open call for projects and papers, eleven were selected. Six of them will be presented during the Forum QUAM 2011 - WIKPOLIS. All selected projects will be part of the Open Forum that will be hosted on ACVic's website (http://acvic.org/wikpolis).

The selected projects that will participate in the Forum QUAM 2011 - Wikpolis are:

- Souvenir / Visual Laboratory, by the Associació Cultural Laboratori Visual
- Aplicación Legal Despalazada #1: Reserva Fraccionaria y Acceso a lo denegado, by Núria Güell
- Derivas urbanas: la ciudad extrañada, by Roger Páez
- ¿Por qué el mundo contemporáneo es plano?, by Diana Padrón
- Cartografía del espacio en movimiento continuo, by Vahida Ramujkic
- Aquí ahora jugamos tod@as, by Amaia Elorza Pinedo and Javier Peña Ibáñez


The selected projects that will be part of the Open Forum, together with the previous ones: 

- Encuentros de arquitectura expandida, by the Arquitectura Expandida Collective
- Territorios invisibles. Una aproximación al proceso de contaminación en el cordón industrial del Gran Rosario, by NETNúcleo de Estudios Transdiciplinarios
- Desayuno con viandantes, by the Collective Desayuno con Viandantes
- Sistema de caminos, by Florencia Levy
-Proyecto Cañada, heterogeneous group of architects, urban planners, collectives and associations formed by: Rafael Álvaro, Daniel Zarza, Enrique Arenas and Luis Basabe, Manu Pascual and Luis de Prada, from the Collectuve Zuloark, Rubén Lorenzo and Alberto Nanclares, from Basurama, Belén Butragueño, Paz Nuñez, Sergio Calvo and Pablo Benítez from Architects Without Borders, Susana Camacho, from the Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Diego Peris from TODO POR LA PRAXIS, Alejandro Marmo. The group counts with the of: Marta Catalán, Esteban Fuertes, Elisa García, Alicia Gómez, Adelaida del Puerto, Blanca Villar and Jorge López and Manuel A. Monteserín members of the Collective León 11.

wikpolis. cartografías y construcciones colectivas del espacio social

QUAM 2011 | WIKPOLIS

FORUM. 08/09.07.2011.

International seminars with the participation of Mona Fawaz/Ahmad Gharbieh, Stalker-Primavera Romana (Giulia Fiocca, Lorenzo Romito), Iconoclasistas (Pablo Ares, Julia Risler), Neil Cummings, Jordi Canudas/Carme Carbonell, Francisco Jarauta, Santiago Cirugeda, Straddle3 (David Juárez Latimer-Knowles), Todo por la praxis (Diego Peris), Hackitectura.net (José Pérez de Lama), Efraín Foglia and participants selected from the call for papers: Laboratori Visual, Núria Güell, Roger Páez, Diana Padrón, Vahida Ramujkic, Amaia Elorza Pinedo/Javier Peña Ibáñez.

WORKSHOPS. From 10.07.2011 to 15.07.2011

Workshop 1 “Collective mapping and politics of space”. Directed by Iconoclasistas (Pablo Ares, Julia Risler)
Workshop 2 “Strategies of creation and collective architectures that influence the physical and social space”. Directed by Straddle3 – David Juárez Latimer-Knowles with the participation of Santiago Cirugeda, Todo por la praxis, NeoKinok.tv and the collaboration of La Torratxa, Centre Social Autogestionat.

Forum Deadline Registrations 06.07.2011 [Form access] | Workshops registration closed

Wikpolis. Cartographies and collective creation of the social space

One contemporary experience that has clearly caused great changes in the social, political and cultural contexts is the practice of building tools and computer technologies based on open source. A mechanism based on the sharing of results and processes, where the achievements of a group or an individual are also starting points for others. A succession of connected elements mixing creativity, skills and material production, built and consumed through a shared experience. One element allowing the generation of content, based on collective experience, is the wiki. A wiki is a website which allows creating and editing any number of web pages connected to each other, sharing a common language and allowing access to a control group. From this perspective, the construction of tools, tactics and collective practices applied in the context of the city, will be the subject to be discussed in the forum and project workshops in this edition of Quam 2011. Wikpolis translates the possibility of meeting and proposing projects focusing on this option of the node to the context of space and the policies that regulate it, providing with the opportunity to create new shared strategies for modifying social and cultural context.

wikpolis. cartografías y construcciones colectivas del espacio social

Forum

The forum includes several guests and a number of projects selected by an open call. Both cases involve a series of projects or reflections from artistic practice, architecture, design, activism, social practices intervening in the city, responding to the two themes proposed for this year:

- Cartographies and political representations of space, to represent or influence policies regarding the use of space. References to works revealing latent conflicts in rural and urban space and generate maps that help to interpret them.

- Collective creation in the social space, referring to self managed social processes which use mapping tools to enable collective strategies, building a network and seek alternative systems for citizens.

This dual approach leads to several issues regarding the relationship between citizenship, creative practices and processes that influence the social space:
Can the city be designed and built from the logic of shared creativity and open source? Who may participate? How to organize a joint project? How can existing practices be mapped in an area? Self-sufficiency, co-responsibility, alternative practices ... what relationships could we establish with the administration? How can you build new cultural practices? Could these transform the social space? Can alternatives to current economic models be generated from the perspective of applied creativity?

QUAM 2011 | WIKPOLIS

QUAM 2011 | WIKPOLIS

Open call for projects and papers to be presented in the QUAM 2011 Forum. ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies.
Deadline of presentation of projects or papers 17.06.2011

Within the Framework of the Project QUAM 2011, ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies launches an open call for projects to be presented as part of the forum that will take place on the 8^th and 9^th of July, 2011.

QUAM 2011. WIKPOLIS. Cartographies and collective creation of the social space

One contemporary experience that has clearly caused great changes in the social, political and cultural contexts is the practice of building tools and computer technologies based on open source. A mechanism based on the sharing of results and processes, where the achievements of a group or an individual are also starting points for others. A succession of connected elements mixing creativity, skills and material production, built and consumed through a shared experience.

One element allowing the generation of content, based on collective experience, is the wiki. A wiki is a website which allows creating and editing any number of web pages connected to each other, sharing a common language and allowing access to a control group.

From this perspective, the construction of tools, tactics and collective practices applied in the context of the city, will be the subject to be discussed in the forum and project workshops in this edition of Quam 2011.

Wikpolis translates the possibility of meeting and proposing projects focusing on this option of the node to the context of space and the policies that regulate it, providing with the opportunity to create new shared strategies for modifying social and cultural context.

Cracks in times of adversity *
WOrkshop by Torolab - Raúl Cárdenas and Josep-Maria Martín QUAM 2010
(* By Fahdila Mammar, from her lecture at QUAM 2010 Between cracks. Open source citizenship and artistic practices. July 10th 2010)
ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies. From 12th to 16th July 2010. Vic, Barcelona

This workshop aims to create the conditions to begin a process of participative research , reflection and proposition starting from different concepts related to "human scale development": being, to have, to make, to be / subsistence,protection, affection, common sense, participation, leisure, creation, identity, freedom. These concepts proposed by the economist Manfred Max-Neef are an alternative to the traditional models applied. The workshop focuses on leisure, a subject often trivialised and little appraised but which represents a fundamental element in the holistic development of people and of their systemic context: spatial, temporal and collective.

With the collaboration of Miquel Bardagil, curator and art critic, Betlem Parés, manager of the Institut del Desenvolupament del Barri de l'Erm de Manlleu, Fabiola Mora i Noemí Alonso, from Pla de Barris de l'Ajuntament de Vic

Workshop participants: Ada Vilaró/Alba Maria Gómez/Carmela Fores/Cecilia Martin/Daniel Pérez/Diego Salazar/Elena Albesa/Elisenda Gabaldà/Erik Marc Trensig/Eva Cau/Eva Marichalar/Eva Muñoz/Florencia Aliberti/Gemma Barberà/Gloria Durán/Guilem Celada/Imma Camps/Irune Jiménez/Janney Altagracia/Jordi Lafon/Jordi Portet/Laura Marte MArtínez/Luis Alejandro Mora/Maria José Ribas/Marta Carrasco/Marta Llopart/Miquel Ollé/Miriam Baena/Montse Rierola/Nerea De Diego/Oriol Ocaña/Pablo Ángel Lugo/Pilar Sanmartin/Qin Wang/Raül Roncero/Sofia Mataix/Teresa Tipton/Toni Sangrà/Víctor Masferrer

QUAM 2010
Cracking the system. Art and Citizenship open source in public realm

Friday 9th and Saturday 10th of July
Forum. International seminar with participation of: Simon Sheikh, Fulya Erdemci, Rachel Anderson, Josep-Maria Martín, Laia Solé, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Fadhila Mammar, Virginia Villaplana, Pilar Bonet, Torolab-Raúl Cárdenas, Democracia, Straddle3-David Juàrez.
From Monday 12th to Friday 16th of July
Project workshop. Directed by Torolab-Raúl Cárdenas.

Registration until june 25th. Download pdf program

Art and Citizenship, open source in public realm

The city as public space is a place of refuge and shelter, negotiation and  conflict, integration and rejection, space to share and space to be conquered, of quality of life and of segregation, of creativity and of destruction, of compromise and of revolution, of transience and residence, of solitude and community. It is above all a place for every inhabitant to exercise their rights as citizens

The artistic practices that affect social space are intimately linked to the city and to social and cultural policies. All these elements sustain a relationship of mutual interaction and dependence. Under this postulate the concept of citizenship would be treated from the viewpoint of the artistic practices that work on this line from areas such as representation, participation or direct action; and in relation to other agents who consider citizenship a subject of analysis in the social and political context.

The condition of citizenship lies under the conflict. Conflict does not exist without a consciousness of one’s identity, and a sense of belonging to a concrete group with some common social, cultural and political goals.
The changing scenario of our cities with the visible presence in public space of cultural and ethnic multiplicity causes social mobilization in order to redefine the concept of citizenship and to reach new spaces for representation. The relationship local-global, national-universal affects the logic of the expanded citizenship and affects, also, the artistic practices that try to find in the city a means of action.

Artistic and creative practices are often little involved with the social context and their presence in the educational field is limited, which does not help to solve certain antagonistic problems of communication of these types of practices with the citizenship. Open source in this context refers to the possibility of modifying collectively, of constructing together meanings and representations in the mutable complexity of the social context of the city.

This seminar is conceived from two perspectives, that of artistic practices and that of sociocultural practices, very often little connected.  Artistic practices point out possible proposals, from unvealing latent situations, to bringing solutions, to promoting strategies and applicable guidelines which can take shape in  cultural or social policies. Social and cultural practices are aimed at promoting imaginative situations in order to increase the intercultural |relationships or communication among the different forms of citizenship currently existing in public spaces.

Exploratory lines:
- Experiences that bring up alternatives to the conflict between citizenship and artistic practices.
- Artistic practices in the social space, among interaction, participation and mediation.
- The conflicts of citizenship in the social, cultural and political context.

Aimed at:
The seminar and workshop are aimed at artists, social researchers, educational workers, cultural managers and different creative workers interested in promoting actions affecting social, cultural or spatial policies. Also to  media, politics, anthropology, pedagogy, sociology, design, architecture, art students and students from other disciplines who may find these subject of common interest.