URBAN BACKSTAGES

2012
Video-installation with intervention live animated photos, heart beat, plastic envelope, intervention live: Ivana Reyero video-installation: Juliana Herrero. The original Herrero’s photographs are materials from an urban derive realised in 1998 together with Galatea Temerlin and Carolina Van der Meulen.

The video brings to life within a heart beat photographs from the series Preg- nant buildings taken by the artist during a derive experience in the surroundings of Plaza de Mayo in 1998. As an attempt to capture the ephemeral “clothing” of the city within its dressing and undressing once again, this work tries to grasp a present in continuous change. The urban envelope quotes a “filmic” experience of other times, where behind the curtain, the city, hides its alienation of produc- tion, the making off of the new. The video is intervened with a performance by Ivana Reyero, live, that focussed on a rhythmical transformation.
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‘Under the visible fashions which disappear and reappear on the trivial surface of contemplated pseudo-cyclical time, the grand style of the age is always lo- cated in what is oriented by the obvious and secret necessity of revolution. ‘
Guy-Ernest Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, Chapter 6 “Spectacular Time”
Source: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/
*Pregnant Buildings* (1998) is a photographic work emanated out of a derive experience in five blocks and squares around Plaza de Mayo. Inspired on the Situationist International (SI) of the 60, a portrait of Buenos Aires at the edge of the millennium (…)