BARCÚ, Bogotá International Art and Culture Fair, was started up for the purpose of creating settings in tune with the new dynamics of today’s world, offering visitors a selection of not only visual arts but also other expressions of culture such as film, music, theatre, literature and architecture, among others. A group of houses located in Bogotá’s historical centre, La Candelaria, which has been home to art and culture for more than 400 years, has been chosen as the venue.
The activity consists of a four-week residency for the Spanish artist Diego de las Heras Pardo ending with an exhibition project during the BARCÚ 2015 festival (30 September – 5 October 2015). During these days a large community of local and international artists attends five art fairs held simultaneously. It was decided to make the event the backdrop to a residency for developing an artistic and research project for which the groundwork will be carried out in local libraries and archives with groups of elderly citizens and neighbourhood associations. It is a project focused on older people and sets out to draw a parallel between the situation in rural Castile and the disappearance of oral culture. The final exhibition project is a site-specific installation.
The actions designed to disseminate the results of the project include: a public talk with the project’s curator; the making of a documentary video (10-15 min.); and a blog on the BARCU website which includes reports on fieldwork, curatorial texts, historical documents, a dossier of photographs and installation sketches and memories.
The activity consists of a four-week residency for the Spanish artist Diego de las Heras Pardo ending with an exhibition project during the BARCÚ 2015 festival (30 September – 5 October 2015). During these days a large community of local and international artists attends five art fairs held simultaneously. It was decided to make the event the backdrop to a residency for developing an artistic and research project for which the groundwork will be carried out in local libraries and archives with groups of elderly citizens and neighbourhood associations. It is a project focused on older people and sets out to draw a parallel between the situation in rural Castile and the disappearance of oral culture. The final exhibition project is a site-specific installation.
The actions designed to disseminate the results of the project include: a public talk with the project’s curator; the making of a documentary video (10-15 min.); and a blog on the BARCU website which includes reports on fieldwork, curatorial texts, historical documents, a dossier of photographs and installation sketches and memories.