Valparaíso Brushwood Garden is an exercise to conceive an architectural common space for many artworks that symbolize different creative forms of life. Virtuality links artworks as different kinds of brushwood (words, images, sounds, letters, gestures…). Each brushwood tells a precarious story as a gesture of resistance and infinite value beyond artistic activity. The sprouted garden is the communication spot between all artworks, a place that allows them to live in dignity, opening a possible future for arts and better ways of inhabiting. In this sense, virtual space is an experimental material to conceive new territories.
Valparaíso Brushwood Garden
Valparaíso Brushwood Garden is an open task to envision a space in which creativity overcomes adversity and precariousness. Growing as brushwood in the wildlands, creativity always finds new materials to work with, new ways to survive, new forms to communicate ideas and create relationships, beyond economic approaches. This is an exercise to conceive an architectural common space for many artworks that symbolize several creative forms of life.
Words, images, sounds, letters, gestures… all different sprouts that coexist and share a common place, unknown to the official cartographies. Spaces, Ecologies, Memories and Resistances are the main concepts in which this virtual space has been conceived and built. Against precarization or any monolithic idea of experience, Brushwood Garden seeks alternatives to imposed mapping forms or ways of inhabiting, always forcibly separated or stacked, many of them considered truly brushwoods.
This sprouted garden is conceived as a communication spot between all artworks, a place that allows them to live in dignity, opening a possible future for arts and better ways of inhabiting. In this sense, virtual space is an experimental material to conceive new territories.
Preview Video
Credit: Cristian Galarce Lopez
Credit: Veronica Frances
Credit: Sebastian Leiva [kerosene]
Credit: Gustavo Celedon
Credit: Cristian Galarce Lopez
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Project Credits / Acknowledgements
Project Credits: Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem; Verónica Francés; Collective LASTESIS; Paul Hernández; Fabián Villalobos; Marcelo Raffo Tironi Ph.D.; Gustavo Celedón Ph.D., Cristian Galarce López and the University of Valparaíso Artistic Research Center (CIA-UV).
Acknowledgements to: Makis Solomos Ph.D.; Adolfo Vera Ph.D.; Pablo Rojas Reyes; Nahuel Quiroga; Alejandro Lavanderos and Ensemble NES; University of Valparaiso Vice-Rectory of Research and Innovation; University of Valparaiso Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Studies in Thought, Culture, and Society (DEI-UV); and University of Valparaiso Architecture Faculty.
This project is a cooperation between the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile and Ars Electronica.
Biography
The University of Valparaíso Artistic Research Center (CIA-UV) focuses on research, production and innovation in arts, particularly in film, theater, music, design and new media. The Center studies art as knowledge, both theoretical and practical, primarily on artworks, aesthetics, politics and society. Our current research projects involve New Media, Sound Art, Memory, Artistic and Cultural Heritage, Visual Arts, Film and Performance, based on artistic experimentation and creation.
