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Un Vagon Hermoso en NYC
Fiesta, música, performances y subasta de obras de arte. Recaudación de fondos para Un Vagón Hermoso, en Canal Chapter. Más fotografías en
LoCurativo presents Un Vagón Hermoso en Nueva York in partnership with Canal Chapter NYC
One night only art auction with works from over 30 artists, remarks from 18-year-old Argentine activist.
New York, NY, April 3, 2008 – LoCurativo presents a one-night-only art auction at Canal Chapter NYC (343 Canal Street in Manhattan) on Thursday, April 10 from 7pm to midnight, to help raise money and generate support for Argentina’s Un Vagón Hermoso (“A Beautiful Wagon”) project. The fundraiser is being presented in conjunction with a visit to the U.S. by 18-year-old Argentine activist Emilio Perez Campanelli who is a member of Ecoclub Buratovich/Un Vagón Hermoso. Mr. Campanelli will be in New York to participate as a Global Teen Leader in the Three Dot Dash Foundation’s 2008 Just Peace Summit.
All monies raised on April 10 will go directly to Un Vagón Hermoso to enable them to finish renovating two abandoned traincars for community use. Funds are currently needed to cover the costs of repair, materials, equipment, furnishings, and power for the traincars. The project has thus far sustained itself solely through the work of the community without any sponsorship, government grants, or support from the private sector.
Works for the art auction have been generously donated in support of the project. Participating artists include: Brad Kalhammer, Anna Hostvedt, Amy Wetpfahl, Aurora de Armendi, Pamela Parker, Kalika Farmer, Theo Ellsworth, Michelle Bonneau, Nicole Cherubini, Clara Fialho, Zoe McCloskey, Martyna Szczesna, Sarah Nicole Phillips, The 62, Sophie Lvoff, Cathy Mooses, Catherine Burke, Alfredo Garcia, Andy Cook, Mary Kate Maher, Orvokki Halme, Leigh Ruple, Julian Gatto, Caroline Woolard, Justin Waldron, Firelei Baez, Leah Hebert, Barbara Mason, Alex Campaz, Carlos Perez, Caitlin Gianniny, Marcus Romero, Pablo Diaz, Leah Wolff, and Jennifer Parks. The crowd-pleasing audiovisual dance band, TODOSANTOS (from Brooklyn via Venezuela; Flamin Hotz’ Records) is set to perform. Additionally, there will be a $5-10 sliding scale door charge to generate funds for Un Vagón Hermoso.
In the summer of 2007, a band of activists and artists (LoCurativo) from NYC was invited by Ecoclub Buratovich/Un Vagón Hermoso to trek down to rural Argentina to conduct art workshops and social and environmental investigations with the local community and assist in the process of reclaiming two abandoned traincars for public use.
ABOUT LOCURATIVO
LoCurativo works with international communities willing to host groups of artists to engage in a cultural exchange through collective art practices. Though many of the artists are based in New York City these projects travel throughout the Americas and help to build relationships and break down preconceptions across borders. LoCurativo projects are initiated by Cathy Mooses and then realized collectively by participants who take the initiative to run their own projects. LoCurativo is in part an evolution of the Latin American Community Art Project, which Miss Mooses co-founded and directed projects for in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador from 2004-2006. These projects have hosted over 40 NYC based artist over the last three years. Small grants and donations support these endeavors but are largely invested in by the artist themselves. LoCurativo projects are committed to a set of social goals, but have a model which is in continual metamorphosis and depends on the collective efforts of a select group of artists to develop its identity.
ABOUT CANAL CHAPTER NYC The Canal Chapter is an inventive space, created and directed by artists to promote and cultivate emerging ideas. Formed 2 years ago by the collective 1134NYC, with the support of Red Bull, The Canal Chapter became a sculptural verb that functions as a social experiment. Inspired by the alternative art spaces that dominated SoHo four decades before, the members work together to procure a fertile environment for creative minds to thrive free from social limitations. Members vary in profession and focus from designers to engineers. It began as a reflection of New York's Downtown scene and now aims to extend the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art dialogues.
New York, NY, April 3, 2008 – LoCurativo presents a one-night-only art auction at Canal Chapter NYC (343 Canal Street in Manhattan) on Thursday, April 10 from 7pm to midnight, to help raise money and generate support for Argentina’s Un Vagón Hermoso (“A Beautiful Wagon”) project. The fundraiser is being presented in conjunction with a visit to the U.S. by 18-year-old Argentine activist Emilio Perez Campanelli who is a member of Ecoclub Buratovich/Un Vagón Hermoso. Mr. Campanelli will be in New York to participate as a Global Teen Leader in the Three Dot Dash Foundation’s 2008 Just Peace Summit.
All monies raised on April 10 will go directly to Un Vagón Hermoso to enable them to finish renovating two abandoned traincars for community use. Funds are currently needed to cover the costs of repair, materials, equipment, furnishings, and power for the traincars. The project has thus far sustained itself solely through the work of the community without any sponsorship, government grants, or support from the private sector.
Works for the art auction have been generously donated in support of the project. Participating artists include: Brad Kalhammer, Anna Hostvedt, Amy Wetpfahl, Aurora de Armendi, Pamela Parker, Kalika Farmer, Theo Ellsworth, Michelle Bonneau, Nicole Cherubini, Clara Fialho, Zoe McCloskey, Martyna Szczesna, Sarah Nicole Phillips, The 62, Sophie Lvoff, Cathy Mooses, Catherine Burke, Alfredo Garcia, Andy Cook, Mary Kate Maher, Orvokki Halme, Leigh Ruple, Julian Gatto, Caroline Woolard, Justin Waldron, Firelei Baez, Leah Hebert, Barbara Mason, Alex Campaz, Carlos Perez, Caitlin Gianniny, Marcus Romero, Pablo Diaz, Leah Wolff, and Jennifer Parks. The crowd-pleasing audiovisual dance band, TODOSANTOS (from Brooklyn via Venezuela; Flamin Hotz’ Records) is set to perform. Additionally, there will be a $5-10 sliding scale door charge to generate funds for Un Vagón Hermoso.
In the summer of 2007, a band of activists and artists (LoCurativo) from NYC was invited by Ecoclub Buratovich/Un Vagón Hermoso to trek down to rural Argentina to conduct art workshops and social and environmental investigations with the local community and assist in the process of reclaiming two abandoned traincars for public use.
ABOUT LOCURATIVO
LoCurativo works with international communities willing to host groups of artists to engage in a cultural exchange through collective art practices. Though many of the artists are based in New York City these projects travel throughout the Americas and help to build relationships and break down preconceptions across borders. LoCurativo projects are initiated by Cathy Mooses and then realized collectively by participants who take the initiative to run their own projects. LoCurativo is in part an evolution of the Latin American Community Art Project, which Miss Mooses co-founded and directed projects for in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador from 2004-2006. These projects have hosted over 40 NYC based artist over the last three years. Small grants and donations support these endeavors but are largely invested in by the artist themselves. LoCurativo projects are committed to a set of social goals, but have a model which is in continual metamorphosis and depends on the collective efforts of a select group of artists to develop its identity.
ABOUT CANAL CHAPTER NYC The Canal Chapter is an inventive space, created and directed by artists to promote and cultivate emerging ideas. Formed 2 years ago by the collective 1134NYC, with the support of Red Bull, The Canal Chapter became a sculptural verb that functions as a social experiment. Inspired by the alternative art spaces that dominated SoHo four decades before, the members work together to procure a fertile environment for creative minds to thrive free from social limitations. Members vary in profession and focus from designers to engineers. It began as a reflection of New York's Downtown scene and now aims to extend the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art dialogues.
About the town
Mayor Buratovich is a small town, of about 5,000 inhabitants in the southern tip of the Province of Buenos Aires, in the humid plains of the Argentinean Pampas. Its inhabitants are largely European immigrants and the children of those immigrants who arrived by the establishment of the railway network in the early 20th century. It is a rural area that produces, almost exclusively, onions for export.
The new immigrants to the area are Bolivians and migrant workers from the northern Argentinean provinces of Jujuy, Salta, and Santiago del Estero, who work in the fields to harvest the onion. Twenty one percent of the population lives below the level of poverty.
The new immigrants to the area are Bolivians and migrant workers from the northern Argentinean provinces of Jujuy, Salta, and Santiago del Estero, who work in the fields to harvest the onion. Twenty one percent of the population lives below the level of poverty.
Broken down wagon
photos: Martyna Szczesna · Carolina PellejeroDuring the 1990s Argentina systematically de-nationalized and dismantled the largest railroad system in Latin America. Built by French and British capital in the late 1800s, the lines were acquired by the country in the 1940s by the government of Juan Perón. The privatization of the railway lines under the government of Carlos Menem left many small towns completely isolated (a result of the closure of all lines ‘not pro.table’ to the private company who bought the industry).
Train stations were left in abandon and the train cars and wagons were left to decay or to be vandalized. Railway workers found themselves out of jobs.
Héctor ‘Don Gomez’ is an employee of the railway and a local. He says from his experiences living and working in Buratovich that in 1949, ‘ there used to be a world of people here,’ and that everyone, everyone arrived by train. ‘ Look,’ he says, ‘ I can tell you, without exaggeration, that here, on this side, y’see, right here and in that platform there, it was crowded with folks! Magazines, hawkers, everything would come by train an it was quite an event, as you can imagine…You wouldn’t be able to recall, but when the train stopped coming, during Menem, it was like…it was like…a great sadness, a void.’
Héctor ‘Don Gomez’ is an employee of the railway and a local. He says from his experiences living and working in Buratovich that in 1949, ‘ there used to be a world of people here,’ and that everyone, everyone arrived by train. ‘ Look,’ he says, ‘ I can tell you, without exaggeration, that here, on this side, y’see, right here and in that platform there, it was crowded with folks! Magazines, hawkers, everything would come by train an it was quite an event, as you can imagine…You wouldn’t be able to recall, but when the train stopped coming, during Menem, it was like…it was like…a great sadness, a void.’
Un vagón hermoso
Un vagón hermoso is a project to restore two abandoned train cars in the rural town of Mayor Buratovich, Argentina with the intent to reevaluate ideas of community development, and to reactivate the voices and historical visions first begun by the immigrants who founded the town at the turn of the century. The railway wagons will be used as a community workspace with internet access, literature, and supplies (wagon one) and as a residence for visiting artists and other guests (wagon two) linking local youth, free agents, and artists in the realization of social projects via exhibitions, art workshops, outdoor cinema events, access to technology, the creation of small edition literature, interviews among neighbors and new immigrants, group meals/public picnics, and other manifestations that value public over private and the collective over the individual.
Un Vagón Hermoso values itself as an ‘open’ project, that re-invites conversation regarding historical processes and politics that haven’t been discussed since the disillusionment created after ‘progreso y porvenir’, and gives new meaning to the potential for goodness through community public work.
Un Vagón Hermoso values itself as an ‘open’ project, that re-invites conversation regarding historical processes and politics that haven’t been discussed since the disillusionment created after ‘progreso y porvenir’, and gives new meaning to the potential for goodness through community public work.
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