Ecotopias (2023)

Research-creation residencies

• El Bolit, Contemporary Art Centre (Girona, Catalonia, 2023) 
• Universidad de Lánus (Buenos Aires, 2018)
  

This ongoing project is an exploration of disused peripheries as a generator of alternative and utopian positions on the city in transformation. This research is part of my documentation work around territories as spaces for visual, artistic and civic expression. I have been building this project since 2016, mainly through stays in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Detroit and Montreal.

I am interested in the social and cultural occupation of wastelands. My purpose is to contrast their uses with sometimes contradictory issues: spaces abandoned then revitalized, regenerated, cultivated, or colonized… , such as a cultural utopia in Montreal, a capitalist failure in Detroit, an emergency occupation in Barcelona, and walled and criminalized spaces in Buenos Aires. I also examine how language and cultural contexts (the North, the South) shape our representations of these landscapes: no man’s- land, wasteland, edgeland, terrain vague, tiers paysage, interstice, descampado, solar, lugar sin diseñar, desperdiciado, and so on. What do we take care of, who do we take care of?