marjetica potrc

marjetica potrc é artista e arquiteta formada pela universidade de ljubljana, eslovênia. é professora da academia de belas artes em ljubljana e trabalha com as situações que englobam a expansão urbana e suas influências sobre o cotidiano atual. investiga as contradições geradas pela instauração do desenvolvimento urbano como a crise social e seus reflexos no aumento da pobreza, incluindo as tragédias ecológicas e a proliferação de conflitos geopolíticos. participou da 27 bienal de são paulo como artista residente no estado do acre durante os meses de março e abril de 2006, planejando seu trabalho para a mostra. o projeto realizado foi a construção de uma escola sobre palafitas. a artista partiu da observação de escolas e igrejas da região. um de seus projetos mais interessantes é o LHE:
"The “Lost Highway Expedition” was initiated by Centrala Foundation for Future Cities and the School of Missing Studies [SMS]. LHE is the first event of Europe Lost and Found (ELF), a multi annual and three-phased project, involving following major themes: “Balkanization” (2006-2007), “Europeanization” (2007-2008) and “Map the Future” (2008-2009). Each project phase will build the base for the next one, thus posing new set of questions and determining new research directions. In this way, it will reflect on contemporary Europe, which it understands as a cycle of continuously reshaping social, political, economic and urban conditions and communication processes. However, each phase is planned to realize an expedition, an exhibition and a publication."

T.A.M.A.

T.A.M.A.
TEMPORARY AUTONOMUS MUSEUM FOR ALL

"TAMA is located in Avliza, a run-down area in western Athens 10 km from the center of the capital and very close to the new Olympic village. Itinerant populations such as Gypsies and Vlach Romanians from north of Greece use this area as a pied-?-terre. My discovery of the place was accidental, but my involvement in its life was intentional. It came as a natural sequence of my attitude as an artist.I visited the place for the first time in 1998 with my friends Catherina and Michel, looking for old furniture at good prices. But when I found myself there, it was not the antiques that attracted me but the place itself; haphazard layout, unexpected events, unplanned art works, strange people. What I saw there is the concept of a makeshift settlement, a kind of mobile post-urban city which serves its inhabitants' temporary housing needs and economic activities. Everything forms part of this small town. Landscape-clothes-interiors -unfinished buildings- streets -cars -the sky -the people.I started to visit Avliza everyday - I became an addicted visitor. The observation of place and people became my foremost duty.I wanted to become friends with them, to participate in their fiestas, to share their problems, to listen to their thoughts and needs; after a long try I had it, and a strong relationship started. The nomadic way of living and the particularities of the community gave me the idea of setting up a system of communication and exchange among the inhabitants, myself, the art people and the public. In a very short time I realized that all my friends and associates wanted to participate in this story which I call a temporary autonomous museum for all."

Maria Papadimitriou

rebargroup

"REBAR is an interdisciplinary studio operating at the intersection of art, design and activism.

Our work encompasses visual and conceptual public art, landscape design, urban intervention, temporary performance installation, digital media and print design.

Rebar remixes the ordinary, repurposes the ubiquitous and restructures the fabric of the urban environment by exposing hidden assumptions and shared meanings embedded in the everyday experience of the built world."