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The Biennale of Contemporary Art Manifesta 8 this morning the remodeling has been done in the prison of San Antonio de Cartagena and will be one of the exhibition venues of Manifesta 8.
In the presentation of the building have been present Pedro Alberto Cruz, Minister of Culture of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Rosario Montero, Councillor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, Jose Vicente Albaladejo, Councillor for Infrastructure, Fix Hedwig, president of the Foundation Manifesta, Esther Regueira, general coordinator of Manifesta 8, Alfredo Cramerotti, director of curatorial CPS (Chamber of Public Secrets) and Martin Lérraga, architect in charge of reform.
Recently closed a prison, the particular structure of the prison of Saint Anthony, built in the 30 in Cartagena, has been refurbished by the architect Martín Lejárraga to be used to host Manifesta 8.
Among the old prison cells will be presented 16 art projects, selected by the group Public Chamber of Secrets, CPS, which is open to the public on October 9, the day of the inauguration of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Visiting hours will be, from opening day, from 10:00 hours to 20:00 hours, except closed Monday for rest of the staff.
Prison of San Anton in Cartagena, was built between 1935 and 1936 by Vicente Agustí Elguero, architect of the Directorate General of Prisons.
From 1936 to 2002 has worked as a detention center for political prisoners and social common.
In 2002 becomes Reception Centre open prison inmates with third-degree and worked as such until June 2010.
Just a month later, in July 2010, becomes the Social Integration Centre of Cartagena (CIS) under the CIS Guillermo Miranda de Murcia by Order of the Ministry of Interior of Spain's government 07/06/2010 / BOE .22-07-2010).
Its objective is the integration of prisoners from the region of Cartagena which are in semi-liberty, facilitating the transit of domestic life outside social life.
In 2010, the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions authorized for use as headquarters Manifesta8, Murcia.
From October 9 to January 9 San Anton prison host the selected works of Abed Anouti, Anders Eiebakke, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Ariel Reichman, Brumaria, Danilo Correale, Fay Nicolson, Filipa César, Khaled Hafez, María Ruido , Mounira Al Solh, News: Renée Ridgway / Rick van Amersfoort, Raed Yassin, Ralf Homann, Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel and Wooloo.
Besides the prison of Saint Anthony will host the Media Lounge, a space where you can see the work of Manifesta 8 different artists have been using to support different media.
There he will see the projects undertaken in the Murcia Region 7, Al Jassera TV, Onda Regional de Murcia, La Verdad, a platform for Internet TV and No Typical Nolens Volens magazine.
All these projects have been selected by the curatorial CPS group, formed by Khaled Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti.
Based in Copenhagen (Denmark) and the Middle East, CPS works as a network of artists, curators and thinkers who have been collaborating since 2004 on the organization, production and circulation of film and video festivals, exhibitions, TV and radio programs , political fictions and documentaries.
CPS also holds forums and publishes books and articles on socio-political issues and cultural issues such as migration, mobility, representation, colonialism, gender and difference.
CPS wants to stimulate the role of debate, reconstructing both the role of the arts, its responsibility and its relationship with society.
Manifesta 8 CPS conceived as a series of "transmissions" (including artworks and interventions in the media) using artistic methods and trading strategies to explore the geographical and socio-political structures that define specific reality and the history of our days.
CPS seeks to discover and foster dialogue and interrupt simultaneously occupying the basic boundary conditions that define the framework for Manifesta 8, moving them into the public domain through practices of production in the mass media, documentaries, artistic research and journalism estético.Como example of projects that will see in the Prison of San Antón, which can be carried out Danilo Correale, Filipa César and Brumaria (whose facility is co-produced with the MUSAC).
DANILO CORREAL
Danilo Correale, born in Naples (Italy) in 1982, lives and works in Naples and Berlin.
According to Michel Foucault, the legibility of the historical record depends on the divisions created by the power.
Danilo Correale research focuses renewed attention on some files considered minor, and distributes organically little-known information with the intention of highlighting the underlying power structures in some specific historical reports.
To this end, a reconstruction based on circumstantial and easily explained the events in which the artist collects images produced and inspired by a historical record.
The final exhibition design and serve as a strategy through which the sequence of images can get rid of its narrative quality and emerges again as a series of documents can be redacted from any marketing by the media and, According to the critic Matteo Lucchetti, "ready to resume his life as living matter in the service of memory?.
CÃ ‰ SAR FILIPA
Filipa César, born in Oporto (Portugal) in 1975, lives and works in Berlin. Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker.
In his work reflects on the relationship between moving image and its public reception, in other words, their assimilation by the viewer.
Motivated by the concern to uncover the fictional aspects of the documentary genre and marked by an urgent need to clarify the policies underlying the motion pictures, works such as F for Fake (2005), Rapport (2007), Le Passeur (2008) , The Four Chambered Heart (2009) and Memograma (2010) walk the fine line between narrative, chronicle, documentary and experimental film.
César facilities suggest scenarios for expanded production of motion pictures in which viewers are asked to actively participate with their power of perception so that they become aware of the presence of socio-political aspects.
In the work of Filipa César, the images evolve from a struggle between real memory and cinematic memory.
BRUMANIA
Brumaria emerged is an art project with the aim of creating a space for reflection, study and development of cultural.
Its purpose is to circulate materials and skills in relation to artistic and aesthetic ideas and their relation to political and social structures involved.
Brumaria has held various publishing activities, artistic and curatorial, simultaneously engaging in several projects in collaboration practices.
His publications include critical essays by renowned international authors such as Alexander Alberro, Marius Babias, Alain Badiou, Roger Buergel, Judith Butler, Hal Foster, Andrea Fraser, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Maurizio Lazzarato, Pamela M.
Lee, Lucy Lippard, WJT Mitchell, Gerardo Mosquera, Antonio Negri, Rancid ¨ re Jacques, Irit Rogoff and Slavoj à ià "ek".
Founded in 2000 in Madrid.
Opera in Madrid, London and Berkeley (California).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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