lastcall: LastCall lands in London.

viernes, 29 de abril de 2011

LastCall lands in London.

After three weeks advertising it, last Thursday, April 21st, LastCall landed in London, at 6p, where it is going to remain until next Sunday, May 1st, before it takes off again and sets course for Berlin.

This is a very special exhibition because it is the first time, since its birth last June, that some images from the blog are shown in a space and not just online, althoug this time it is part of a group exhibition: Between Space,

If someone who is reading this post is in London this weekend, you are still on time to come along and visit us in Brixton. The exhibition is going to be open until next Sunday at 4pm.

Brixton is a distric in south London, it is the last stop of the Victoria Line, it is the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community and I love it. I like the music, the colors, the crowd, the voices, I love this about London, you can take the tube, travel for 30 minutes and arrive in another country.

Viewfinder Photography Gallery is inside Brixton Village, I just need 5 minutes walking through Atlantic Road to arrive to the 36. I enjoy watching african and caribbean products, bright and vivid clothes, the tropicals fruits and the fish, and all the time listening to reggae and salsa.

Brixton Village is a 1930s indoor market in the heart of Brixton. Also known as Granville Arcade, In October 2009, Space Makers Agency agreed a project with Lambeth Council and LAP, the building’s owners, to bring a range of new temporary and permanent occupants into the market. Twenty shop units were made available through a competition to find creative, community- oriented and enterprising projects to make use of a space, ranging from new and existing businesses, to community groups, arts and theatre projects and other imaginative uses of space.

Over the months that followed, a host of temporary projects made use of spaces within the market, while many of the new businesses found their feet and became permanent features of the arcade. Space Makers also organised a rolling festival of weekend and evening events, with performances and workshops from artists, musicians, dancers, theatre groups and others from Brixton and elsewhere.

During the twelve months, over a thousand people took part in the project — creating pop- up shops or stalls, launching new businesses, organising events, performances or workshops. The spirit of the project captured the imaginations of thousands of visitors and the attention of the national and international media.

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LASTCALL - LETZTER AUFRUF

Un blog sobre aeropuertos.

Los aeropuertos son estaciones para los pasajeros de las aerolíneas y para el traslado de mercancías, donde los aviones reciben combustible, mantenimiento y reparaciones. Son espacios públicos y de tránsito, las estaciones de transporte más complejas y dinámicas debido a la importancia que ha adquirido el transporte aéreo en los últimos años.

La Real Academia de La Lengua los define como: “Terreno llano provisto de un conjunto de pistas, instalaciones y servicios destinados al tráfico regular de aviones.”

Pero más allá de la definición de la Real Academia de La Lengua, un aeropuerto es un conglomerado de culturas, es como el limbo, un espacio de tránsito donde todos están esperando por ir a otro lugar, es un lugar de contradicciones. Es un no-lugar. Es tiempo muerto. Es la última habitación de espera. Y, así todo, es el centro de la cultura contemporánea.

LastCall es un proyecto personal pero es también una invitación a que artistas y no-artistas compartan a través del blog sus experiencias y temores, sus ilusiones y enfados, a que reflexionen sobre el uso que se hace de estos nuevos espacios públicos. para analizar mediante el uso del lenguaje fotográfico la forma en que se difuminan los límites entre espacio público y privado en la terminal de un aeropuerto. Es una invitación a que expresen lo qué sienten cuándo están en un aeropuerto esperando.

En Diciembre de 2010 se celebró la primera exposición de LastCall en la Galeria PhotoarteKomite. El 21 de abril de 2011, LastCall aterrizó en Londres de la mano de Viewfinder Photography Gallery. En noviembre de 2011, LastCall aterrizó en Berlín para realizar una investigación fotográfica de dos aeropuertos que están a punto de desaparecer: Tegel y Schönefeld.

An airport is a tract of levelland where aircrafts land and take off, usually equipped with hard-surfaced landing strips, a control tower, hangars and refueling facilities, as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo. Airports are public and busy spaces, they are the most complex and dynamics station owing to the importance of the air traffic in our times.

But an airport is much more than that. An airport is a conglomeration of all cultures, it is a place of floating bodies of people in limbo, a place where everyone is waiting to be somewhere else, it is a place of contradictions. It is a so called “No-Land”, where dead time seems constantly present. An airport is the ultimate waiting room. And yet, it is a center of contemporary culture, a place where identity is scrutinized thoroughly, and also shed like a snakeskin. We become anonymous and homogeneous.

Nowdays most of the airports are big terminals where we can do a lot of things instead of flying in or out of. Airports are not only a station for passengers, with most of them being amazing architectural buildings, they are a new kind of building, something in between a station and a mall. Like big cities outside a normal city. The first and last view of such city, area, or country. Airports are places where people from everywhere can meet.

LASTCALL, is a personal project as well as an open project which was born as a reflection of many hours spent at airports waiting to fly out. Artists and non-artists have the opportunity to send their photos and opinions about the time spent at airports around the world. I invite them to reflect about the use of the new public spaces, to analyze by photo language how limits between public and private space disappear in an airport terminal.

LastCall was born on last 10th, July, 2010. It was born as a temporary which was going to finish last 7th, february, 2011, but a great public response, an individual exhibition in Ph´a´ke Bilbao: Ph'a'ke . photoartekomite another one in the Viewfinder Gallery in London in April. Last November, LastCall landed in Berlin to give us some views from inside two airports, both of them almost disappeared: Tegel and Schönefeld.