Ports

Residency program

Ports

PORTSit is a space of encounter. An input and output channel, sharing and empowerment of the creators and communities that are participating in the residency.

A community determines, together with a creator, or local collective are a resident, visitor, together generating a crl. The program emphasizes the dialogue between the civil society, science, and technology to create a device group that is shared on a show open to the local public.

In 2018, we held the first edition, with 6 residencies conducted in the cities of La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Copacabana, Tarija and The High.

In 2021, are made of 3 residences in the departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, Potosí and Oruro.

Ports 2021

Second Edition

Ports 2021

Three residences in the departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, Potosí and Oruro. In this edition of the residents work with a greater number of communities and research are spread over several months. With the support of different organizations and platforms, the results will be on display at the international level.

Communities

Society of Historical Research of Potosi,Municipal School of Silverware Potosí, Orchestra Filormónica Youth Potosí, Students of the Normal Llica, community members Jirira, Mining of salt from the Salar de Thunupa,Esculturos of Salt.

Local residents

Cinnamon Palacios, Miguel Llanque, André Blondel, Victor Mazón and Guely Morato.

Resident visitor

Julie Beauvais (CH), Claire Chase (EU), Eduardo Kohn (CD/CA), Caroline Miller (USA), Marcus Maeder (CH), Sandeep Bhagwati (IN/CA).

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Port Cochabamba

listening from the body, acoustic pressure and physicality of the sound

Community

Volunteers Association of the Deaf Cochabamba (A. S. O. R. C. O.)

Local Residents

The Magnifying glass Company of Contemporary Dance, DLP Sessions.

Resident visitor

Víctor Mazón (IS)

Is explored and experienced in a direct way with the physicality of sound and vibration, distributing the experiences in demonstrations, visual, tactile, bodily, spatial, etc

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The outcome of this experience is BELOW: Changes to the body, space and sub-bass system, a piece of listening immersive presented in Cochabamba and La Paz, where he was selected to inaugurate the third edition of Sonandes Biennial International exhibition of Sound Art.

The residence also developed an installation of the same name that was displayed in the city of El Alto, which is mounted on a container ship remained exposed for a month as part of the activities of the biennale.

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Puerto Santa Cruz

Echolocation, spatiality and urban displacement

Community

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Local Resident

Paul Mansilla (Bo)

Resident visitor

Rodrigo Ríos Zunino (CL)

The sound is fundamental to the life of people who are blind, he created relationships with the space they inhabit and travel. We worked on the concept of echolocation and generated several devices record experimental using their canes as ports sound.

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The result of that experience is a THRESHOLD, a performance done and presented in the Theatre of the Goethe-Zentrum Santa Cruz and at the Cinemateca Boliviana, La Paz.

The residence also developed an installation of the same name that was displayed in the Plaza Abaroa of the city of la Paz, which is mounted on a container ship (gallery mobile) and remained exposed for a month as part of the activities of the biennale.

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Port of The Peace

Sono-graphic elements, action and engraving

Community

Students of the school of Arts UMSA, specialty Engraving

Local Residents

Giorgio Gamarra, Kurmi Cardozo, Isabel Illanes and’alene Gonzales.

Resident visitor

Jorge Olave (CL)

The residency seeks to activate a field of research with recorders bolivian around the crosses between log, recorded and space púlbico. Through the use of aguarfuerte, miking of contact and transduce sound created by different objects sono-graphic.

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Sono-spellings, recorded contemporary is the exhibition result of this residence. The exhibition was held in the Person’s Home Gallery. The works are a result of different actions to be executed in public spaces of the cities of la Paz and el Alto. The prints were gathered in the streets, and the prints were made in the workshops of the Higher University of San Andrés.

The actions were part of the programming of the Third Edition of Sonandes Biennial International exhibition of Sound Art installation of the same name that was displayed in the city of El Alto, which is mounted on a container ship remained exposed for a month as part of the activities of the biennale.

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Port Tarija

Urban Gardens, electronic and sound

Community

Workshop on New Media. Self-government City of Tarija.

Local resident

Marcela Knives, Grover Pascal, Elisa Caneda and Carol Mansilla.

Resident visitor

Cristina Collazos (BO)

The fitología is the science that studies the characteristics and relationships of the plants and their vital processes. The residence has generated the design of circuits that live with water and plants.

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Green Resistance, the the resulting piece of the residence. It was presented in the natural reserve of The Victory in Tarija.

The residence also developed an installation of the same name that was displayed in the Square Villaroel of the city of la Paz, which is mounted on a container ship (gallery mobile) and remained exposed for a month as part of the activities of Sonandes Biennial International exhibition of Sound Art

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Port of The High

sound Sculpture and sound

Community

Neighbouring Satellite City. The High

Local Residents

Footman of The High –

Resident visitor

Marvin Brendel (DE)

Several sculptures were created from elements that are specific to the work of public employees or independent dedicated to the cleaning of one form or another, characters, silent but onmipresentes of the cities

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S. I. P. S (Sound Intervention in Public Spaces) is the result of the residence, the pieces were installed in The cities of la Paz and El Alto as part of the third edition of Sonande Biennial International exhibition of Sound Art.

The objects to mimic the sounds that are produced when cleaning and invites the public to perform exercises of listening close to the threshold of silence.

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Port Copacabana

Listening and underwater environment

Community

Neighbors and citizens d Copacabana

Local Residents

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– Resident visitor

Thomas Begin (CA)

In the last decade, the ciudd of Copacabana has become an important tourist center. Its rapid population growth and the lack of policies and strategies mediambientales have caused the pollution of the lake.

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Feedback trash, is the name of the work performed. It is an homage to the artist Max Neuhaus (1939-2009), a pioneer of sound art, who was the first to make a piece to be heard under the water in the seventies.

The residence also developed an installation of the same name that was displayed in square Humboldt of the city of la Paz, which is mounted on a container ship (gallery mobile) remained exposed for a month as part of the activities of the Sonandes Biennial International exhibition of Sound Art.

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Credits Ports 2018

Address, curatorial and cultural management: Guely Morato.

General production: Luciana Decker.

Production assistance: Marcela Knives.

Communication: Eloisa Peace.

Community Management: Black Concept.