Panoptic

Video, 4’ 24’’

Project carried out for the publication CAPS.A. 11 in prison

Intervention in the prison of Mataró, 2011

Video edited with the collaboration of Can Xalant, Centre de Creació i Pensament Contemporani de Mataró.

 

Panoptic adj. Showing or seeing the whole at one view.

Device designed by the English thinker Jeremy Bentham in 1791. The panoptic enables the guard to see (-opticon) all (pan-) the prisoners without knowing if they are being watched or not.

French philosopher Michel Foucault thoroughly analyzed the concept of panoptic –the eye that sees all – in his work published in 1975 entitled Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (Watch and punish: The birth of prisons).

…Bentham raised the issues in terms of power: the population as the target of the relationships of domination. (…) One look is enough. A glance that controls, and which each, feeling its burden, ends up interiorizing to the extent of watching oneself…

Mataró prison (Elies Rogent, 1858). This was the first prison built in Spain according to the panoptic system.

CAPS.A. 11 a la presó

Baladia Future City

2011 – 2015

41 photos on paper and model (2011), video, 46’40 ” (2015)

“As in all real cities, we have constructed mosques, a kasbah and even a refugee camp” Arick Moré, lieutenant colonel of the Israel Defense Forces

A project about Baladia City National Urban Training Center. Also known as the nickname “Chicago”, Baladia is a center for military training located near the military base of Tze’elim, in the Negev desert in the south of Israel. The center is used by the Israel Defense Forces to plan wars in urban areas of Gaza, Cisjordan, Lebanon and Syria. The installations, that were funded to a large extent by military help from the USA, compose a model of a city of 7,4 sq km. They consist of 1.100 basic modules that can be reconfigured by the planners of military missions, in order to represent specific Arab cities.

The installation Baladia Ciutat Futura, is a display and documentary archive that piles up images, most of them produced by soldiers of the IDF and found on the Internet, You Tube and Facebook, and a model of the city recreated from photographs of Google Earth.

In 2015, it’s joined the project a recorded video in Tel Aviv, in which three soldiers of the Israeli army in reserve explain their experience in Baladia City.

The project aims at exploring the paradoxes between architectural trends developed in Israel since the 70s as an attempt to provide the architecture with “local identity” –by appropriating the Palestinian imaginary– and the “international style” developed during the first decades of the new state, and their most dystopian deviation: the simulated city of Baladia City.

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Curator: Maral Mikirditsian

Model maker: Oriol Poch

Acknowledgements: Achiya Schatz, Avner Gvaryahu, Shay Davidovich, Breaking the Silence, Miki Kratsman, Nirith Nelson, Martí Peran.

*The piece belongs to the MACBA Collection.

 

 

Des de l’interstici

03.11.11 – 23.12.11
Inauguració/Inauguración/Opening: 3.11.11, 20.00h
 Centre Cívic Can Felipa
 C.Pallars 277, 08005 Barcelona

Amb la participació de/Con la participación de/With the participation of:
Vartan Avakian, David Curto, Domènec, Hatem Imam, Francesc Vidal, Raed Yassin

Comissariat per/Comisariado por/Curated by: Maral Mikirditsian

Des de l’interstici és una selecció de projectes que ens proposen un apropament a la regió del Pròxim Orient; un territori que en el nostre imaginari, conscientment o inconscientment, està abocat a una lectura dirigida i fixada. L’exposició aplega tres artistes de Catalunya i tres artistes del Líban amb la intenció de mostrar i també contraposar les diverses mirades, percepcions i relacions que cadascú dels artistes ha establert amb aquesta regió.

Des de l’interstici es una selección de proyectos que nos proponen un acercamiento a la región del Próximo Oriente; un territorio que en nuestro imaginario, consciente o inconscientemente, está abocado a una lectura dirigida y fijada. La exposición agrupa tres artistas de Cataluña y tres artistas del Líbano con la intención de mostrar y también contraponer las diversas miradas, percepciones y relaciones que cada uno de los artistas ha establecido con esta región.

Des de l’interstici is a selection of projects that tackle a multitude of approaches to a space of conflict, in this case, the region of the Middle East; a space that consciously or unconsciously in our imaginary is bound to a somewhat directed and fixed reading. The exhibition joins three artists from Catalonia and three artists from Lebanon, with the intention to bring together and also put in contrast the various perceptions and relationships the artists have built with the region, manifested on different scales ranging from the most intimate to the very distant.

10 Theses Of The Architecture, Vladivostok Film Festival, Vladivostok

The current edition of Alter scrinium program is aimed to clarify different aspects of architecture, as one of the general machinery of human’s habitat shaping.

Exibition:

Absalon, Alexander Apóstol, Andreas Fogarasi, Cao Fei, Deimantas Narkevi?ius, Domènec, Filipa César, Gordon Matta-Clark, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jonas Dahlberg, Miklós Erhardt, Cooperative Société Réaliste, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Studio Smack, Walid Raad.

http://vladivostokfilmfestival.ru/en/programme/87/

AIXÒ NO ÉS UN MUSEU. ARTEFACTES MÒBILS A L’AGUAIT

del 15.10.2011 al 15.01.2012

ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
C. Sant Francesc, 1 08500 Vic
Inauguración: sábado 15 de octubre a las 19:30 horas

Això no és un museu. Artefactes mòbils a l’aguait és una exposició comissariada perMartí Peran i produïda per ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànices en col•laboració ambAC/E Acción Cultural Española. S’inscriu en el marc del projecte Ceci n’est pas une voiture, impulsat de manera conjunta per ACVic, Can Xalant, i IDENSITAT. Compta amb diverses fases de desenvolupament en les que col•laboren o han col•laborat Universitat de Barcelona, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Roulotte (ACM Associació per a la Cultura i l’Art Contemporani), Trànsit i Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc. L’exposició es planteja, segons Martí Peran“com un exercici de documentació i reflexió sobre la construcció d’artefactes mòbils en qualitat d’elements per a una concepció expandida del museu o, en alguns casos, com una alternativa al mateix”.

Pablo Rojas Schwartz – Domènec – Colectivo Cambalache – Adriana García Galán – Cristian Añó y David Armengol – Lluc Mayol, Matias Rossi y Ricardo Duque – Núria Güell – Toni Tomàs y Carles Porta – Rallyconurbano – Cinéma Numérique Ambulant (CNA) – Amor Muñoz – Diego Pérez – Straddle3 y Todo por la Praxis – La Fundició – Pablo Helguera – Colectivo Descarrilados – Ivan Puig y Andrés Padilla – Anna Recasens – Public Works – Iñaqui Larrimbe – Felix Mathias Ott – Sabrina Artel – Raumlabor – Vitor Cesar – Ana Dumas – Public Works – Raimond Chaves – Antimuseo – Marksearch – A77 – Colectivo Kabaret Machine – Josep M. Martin – Theo Craveiro – Fabiana de Barros – Virginia de Medeiros – Floating Lab Collective – Nuria Montiel – Platoniq – Soundlab.

Arte Útil. Off Limits, Madrid

El próximo martes 4 de Octubre a las 20:00 h. se inaugurará en Off Limits (Calle Escuadra 11, Madrid) la exposición Arte Útil en la que se presentará el último número de la revista Nolens Volens sobre Arte Útil.

ARTE ÚTIL

La exposición, comisariada por Tania Bruguera y Democracia, parte de las colaboraciones que los distintos artistas han aportado para la edición del nuevo número de la revista Nolens Volens.

Se busca remarcar la potencialidad de la idea de “arte útil” para crear nuevas vías de relación entre arte y sociedad, incluso la posibilidad cierta de aliarse con movimientos sociales realmente transformadores… pero también tratar sus contradicciones, como la instrumentalización a las que este tipo de proyectos pueden verse sometidos cuando se convierten en sucedáneos de verdaderos cambios sociales.

Artistas participantes: Santiago Cirugeda, Todo Por la Praxis, Rubén Santiago, Adrián Melis (Cuba), Bert Theis (Italia-Luxemburgo), Domènec, Ramón Parramon, Reuben Moss (Nueva Zelanda), Unofficial Tourism, Nuria Güell, Publink (Italia) y Olive Martin et Patrick Bernier (Francia).

http://www.contraindicaciones.net/2011/09/arte-util.html

Para Bellum 12mm / Warlike. Atles d’un món difícil.

Avui, 23 de setembre de 2011 a les 19:30h presentació dels catàlegs Para Bellum 12mm i Warlike. Atles d’un món difícil. Ca l’Arenas Centre d’Art, Mataró.

 

Para Bellum 12mm

Un projecte a cura d’Andrea Aguado i Martí Peran

Yael Bartana, Domènec, Sàgar Malé, Mapasonor, Lamia Joreige, Tomás Ruiz-Rivas i Günter Schwaiger , Grupo de Arte Callejero, Ignasi Aballí, Richard Mosse, Artur Zmijewski, Deimantas Narkevicius, Nedko Solakov, Xavier Arenós, Pep Dardanyà Alsina.

 

Warlike. Atles d’un món difícil

Un projecte a cura de Jordi font agulló i magdala perpinyà

Marta de Gonzalo i Publio Pérez Prieto, María ruido, Cristina Lucas, immo klink, Monika Anselment, Raúl Roncero, Toni giró.

 

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