Sunday, July 31, 2016

Missing 2016


Missing, 2016


 In this piece to be realize in Hamilton Ontario on October 11th the female character will be Elizabeth Catherine Bagshaw, physician (b near Cannington, Ont 18 Oct 1881; d at Hamilton, Ont 5 Jan 1982). She had a successful 60-year medical practice after graduating from University of Toronto (MB) in 1905, but is best known for her 30 years as medical director of the Hamilton Birth Control Clinic. Cheerful and courageous, she accepted the post in 1932 despite opposition from medical colleagues and local clergy and worked with dedicated volunteers to provide Hamilton women with inexpensive and reliable contraceptives. Bagshaw received numerous honours throughout her long life, including an honorary doctorate from McMaster.  Missing is the first of a number of projects dedicated to bring to public awareness the role of women in different communities all over the world. The public intervention consists in posting all over a town(in this case Hamilton) posters of a woman, asking if anybody knows who she is. A web site with an explanation about each woman is provided. The project serve as a way to generate awareness about important women in their communities as well as to have a statistic about how much people in the community really know about their existence and achievements. The idea is to open up a dialogue about why women work has gone unrecognized or underestimated and if there has been changes in this situation in the last decades.











Cuando claman los cristales, 2016


Cuando claman los cristales
Citizen participation has a lot to do with the ways we understand democracy and culture. Participation is much more than to vote periodically. It involves to create ways to allow the citizens to have a say in what is going on in their society allowing some empowerment. Once empowerment begins to grow we realize that we do have actually a voice and that we can change the things that happen around us.
This piece is a metaphor to that power we have, transparent but strong.

La participación ciudadana tiene mucho que ver con las formas en que entendamos la democracia y la cultura. Más allá del concepto simplista de votación cada cuatro años, la democracia implica un entramado estructural que permita el acceso de la ciudadanía a estructuras que permitan su empoderamiento. A medida que desarrollemos esta sensación de empoderamiento llegamos a la conclusión lógica de que nuestros pensamientos e ideas son de interés para los demás y que a través de ciertos mecanismos podríamos llevarlas a cabo. El sistema actual de democracia carece de esta estructura y se ha ido deformando para alimentar a una oligarquía arcaica y avariciosa que pone en peligro la mismísima existencia de la vida en nuestro planeta.
Si bien esto parece descaradamente lógico lo cierto es que las clases oligárquicas han negado esta posibilidad fomentando la creación de la idea de que sólo ellos están preparados para la labor de gobernar utilizando el rancio discurso del miedo y aprovechando las estructuras implantadas a través de la religión por el monoteísmo un funcionamiento jerárquico obsoleto que suele derivar en comportamientos corruptos. En nuestro país con una carencia estructural de procedimientos democráticos, amplias estructuras religiosas y con vestigios de una dictadura de casi medio siglo este procedimiento de democratización pasa por crear de la nada.
 En esta pieza de intervención en el espacio público queremos durante quince minutos trasladar a la calle el clamor de lo frágil de lo transparente del cristal…la voz de un barrio que sonara, sensible y acompasada pero también potente y resilente invade todos los espacios.


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