Experiences of the common good : InSite/Casa Gallina : a project immersed in a neighborhood / edited by Pablo Lafuente in collaboration with the inSite/Casa Gallina team.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lafuente, Pablo, editor.

inSite (Organization). Casa Gallina (Community arts project), issuing body.

Installation Gallery, supporting body.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

inSite (Organization). Casa Gallina (Community arts project).

Art and society--Mexico--Mexico City.

Art and social action--Mexico--Mexico City.

Artists and community--Mexico--Mexico City.

Artists and community.

Art and social action.

Art and society.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Physical Description:

284 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Mexico : inSite, Casa Gallina, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Thirteen years after inSite_05 inaugurated in what would be the last edition of inSite located on the border between Tijuana and San Diego, this book tells the history of the sixth edition and five year project that tells the story of inSite / Casa Gallina in the nighborhood of Santa María la Ribera in Mexico City. The collective process of composition of this publication involved the neighbors and users, the permanent team (among which some are neighbors), the guests hired by the inSite / Casa Gallina team to perform specific actions (workshops, classrooms, artistic projects ...), to new guests (Writers who are not neighbors or collaborators and who were given the task of writing about the project). Therefore, this book is, among other things, a collection of names, of individuals who entered at some point in contact with inSite / Casa Gallina and its activities "...the proposal that although there would be artists invited to participate in residences of long-term research -mostly Mexicans-, neither they nor their works would be the main focus, but would constitute only one of the elements of a constellation of cultural, educational, scientific and communal-social organized by inSite / Casa Gallina with residents of Santa María la Ribera. Therefore, instead of exploiting the community to that it was at the service of some kind of reconceptualized notion of social art, the initiative would focus on the community in order to provide new opportunities so that you could think again as such, as community. Of all the inSite projects, Casa Gallina is the one that is least focused on art, but it is also the one that has done more to question the Curatorial conventions. Maybe, that's why it's the inSite initiative that has had a more relevant effect. (Pablo Lafuente). "'Casa Gallina is the most recent edition of in/Site, an art program held five times between 1992 and 2005 within an 80-kilometer corridor along the San Diego-Tijuana border between the USA and Mexico. At Casa Gallina, which was launched in 2013 and whose edition ends in 2018, the initiatives are developed in one particular neighborhood, Santa Maria la Ribera, a hub of hybrid public life in the megalopolis of Mexico City. Casa Gallina fulfils a dual role, as a place to house processes of participation in the neighborhood, and as a residence for artists who work with the local people. All of this is undertaken outside of the scope of conventional art world The meeting places include a kitchen garage open to local residents, a space for ideas to be exchanged and developed by artists and their collaborators, another space for technical workshops, and a further open space devoted for accumulating and exchanging knowledge produced by carrying out projects and programs ' "It's not a community house," reinforcing the identity of the community -which would mean conforming to a police principle on Rancièrean terms- precisely because the intention is to keep the potential not only of the results (projects), but also of the subjective experience of those participating in the collaborative activity." --Front Flap.

Thirteen years after inSite_05 inaugurated in what would be the last edition of inSite located on the border between Tijuana and San Diego, this book tells the history of the sixth edition and five year project that tells the story of inSite / Casa Gallina in the nighborhood of Santa María la Ribera in Mexico City. The collective process of composition of this publication involved the neighbors and users, the permanent team (among which some are neighbors), the guests hired by the inSite / Casa Gallina team to perform specific actions (workshops, classrooms, artistic projects ...), to new guests (Writers who are not neighbors or collaborators and who were given the task of writing about the project). Therefore, this book is, among other things, a collection of names, of individuals who entered at some point in contact with inSite / Casa Gallina and its activities "...the proposal that although there would be artists invited to participate in residences of long-term research -mostly Mexicans-, neither they nor their works would be the main focus, but would constitute only one of the elements of a constellation of cultural, educational, scientific and communal-social organized by inSite / Casa Gallina with residents of Santa María la Ribera. Therefore, instead of exploiting the community to that it was at the service of some kind of reconceptualized notion of social art, the initiative would focus on the community in order to provide new opportunities so that you could think again as such, as community. Of all the inSite projects, Casa Gallina is the one that is least focused on art, but it is also the one that has done more to question the Curatorial conventions. Maybe, that's why it's the inSite initiative that has had a more relevant effect. (Pablo Lafuente). "'Casa Gallina is the most recent edition of in/Site, an art program held five times between 1992 and 2005 within an 80-kilometer corridor along the San Diego-Tijuana border between the USA and Mexico. At Casa Gallina, which was launched in 2013 and whose edition ends in 2018, the initiatives are developed in one particular neighborhood, Santa Maria la Ribera, a hub of hybrid public life in the megalopolis of Mexico City. Casa Gallina fulfils a dual role, as a place to house processes of participation in the neighborhood, and as a residence for artists who work with the local people. All of this is undertaken outside of the scope of conventional art world The meeting places include a kitchen garage open to local residents, a space for ideas to be exchanged and developed by artists and their collaborators, another space for technical workshops, and a further open space devoted for accumulating and exchanging knowledge produced by carrying out projects and programs ' "It's not a community house," reinforcing the identity of the community -which would mean conforming to a police principle on Rancièrean terms- precisely because the intention is to keep the potential not only of the results (projects), but also of the subjective experience of those participating in the collaborative activity." --Front Flap.

Contents:

Telling the story of inSite/Casa Gallina / Pablo Lafuente

Housing change

A vegetable garden, a classroom

Cultivated visions: the home vegetable garden

A house is a neighborhood, a neighborhood is a house / Joshua Decter

Open table: creating bonds

The trust route: circulating support

Prestaduría

Business owns and designers

A week at Casa Gallina / Jesús Carrillo

Facebook Casa Gallina

Vocabulary of belonging

We are more than just those who you see here / inSite/Casa Gallina team

Dialogues on display

Universe 4-Zoo 1: a cabinet of the animal kingdom

A minimal botanical atlas of Santa Maria la Ribera

Living with water: getting to know the valley of Mexico City basin

Dust: a critical reflection on the impact of mining in Mexico

Allende-Apollo XI

Marvelous economy / Víctor Palacios

Green network: the power of seeds

Newsletters

New territories: A wager without a spectacle? / Michael Krichman and Carmen Cuenca

The wake of neighborhood learning

Mending holes with dinosaur patches / María Berríos

The first gift

While we're here / team acknowledgments

Food and resilience

Network imaginaries: neighborhood affects and the politics of locality / Josefa Ortega and Osvaldo Sánchez

Local knowledges: defending the environment

Accompaniment: unfolding paths as a work of art

The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg / Erick Mayenberg

Tropical depression / Edgardo Aragón

Porcelain / Marianna Dellekemp

Broken teeth / Mauricio Limón

I am mandala / Cadu

Five invisible haiku / Eduardo Navarro

Wanderlust / Ana María Millán

Vestiges / Rfiki Sánchez

Unbraiding / Damian Ontiveros

Mnemonic matter: the law of the similar / Osvaldo Ruiz

Collective mapping / Iconoclastas

Mestizo / Omar Gómez

Collaborative sculpture / Tercerunquinto

Floating crafts / Cynthia Gutierrez

Child heroes / Itzel Martínez

The thinking machine

Some numbers

Casa Gallina: nesting the imaginary

Forged words: neighborhood dialogues

Expanding the network

Niches for temporary get togethers

Shard futures

Withdrawal into the public sphere / Nina Möntmann

Registering localities

Designing prototypes with collaboration tools

Raising awareness about the flow

Actors and programs: a chronology.

Notes:

"Published to mark the completion of inSite/Casa Gallina, the sixth version of inSite." --Facing Title Page.

"This publication is an inSite/Casa Gallina curatorial plataform." --Facing Title Page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780964255418

0964255413

OCLC:

1091729138