Category: AOL Valparaiso 2017

 

 

Plaza Simón Bolivar / Miércoles 06, 16.30 hrs

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En Chile le llamamos así a los restaurantes, fuentes de soda o cocinerías que ofrecen recetas típicas chilenas, con porciones abundantes y a buen precio. Generalmente son datos que se pasan de boca en boca, lugares populares, con un ambiente que es parte de la identidad nacional. Es comida simple, sencilla, con todo el sabor de la gastronomía local, ya que la mayoría lleva muchísimos años cocinando y perfeccionando los mismos platos. https://www.sabrosia.com/2012/05/cual-es-la-mejor-picada-de-chile/

In Chile they call “Picá” restaurants, Fuentes de Soda or cooks that offer typical Chilean recipes, with abundant portions and at a good price. Generally they are tips that are passed from mouth to mouth, popular places, with an environment that is part of the national identity. It is simple, simple food, with all the flavor of local cuisine, since most have been cooking and refining the same dishes for many years. https://www.sabrosia.com/2012/05/cual-es-la-mejor-picada-de-chile/

 

Caleta Portales / Domingo 10,  14.30 hrs aprox. /  $500 por persona / Paseo en barco y almuerzo incluido / Partiendo de Muelle Prats a las 13:00 /

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Primero hay que ponerse de acuerdo, ¿qué es una “picada”? En Chile le llamamos así a los restaurantes, fuentes de soda o cocinerías que ofrecen recetas típicas chilenas, con porciones abundantes y a buen precio. Generalmente son datos que se pasan de boca en boca, lugares populares, con un ambiente que es parte de la identidad nacional. Es comida simple, sencilla, con todo el sabor de la gastronomía local, ya que la mayoría lleva muchísimos años cocinando y perfeccionando los mismos platos. https://www.sabrosia.com/2012/05/cual-es-la-mejor-picada-de-chile/

First you have to agree, what is a “Picá”? In Chile they call “Picá” restaurants, Fuentes de Soda or cooks that offer typical Chilean recipes, with abundant portions and at a good price. Generally they are tips that are passed from mouth to mouth, popular places, with an environment that is part of the national identity. It is simple, simple food, with all the flavor of local cuisine, since most have been cooking and refining the same dishes for many years. https://www.sabrosia.com/2012/05/cual-es-la-mejor-picada-de-chile/

 

 

On Saturday December 9th the Museo Tsonoro will open.
The inauguration will take place on Plaza Sotomayor at 14:00am.

For more information please go to the Museo Tsonore website.

 

I was able to singshatter glass; my scream slew flower vases; my song caused widows to crumple to their knees and let drafts rule; my voice sliced open display cases like a chaste and therefore merciless diamond […].
Oskar Matzerath in „The Tin Drum“ by Günther Grass

 

To run a festival is a bit like to raise a child, with all the ups and downs and everybody who operates a festival or has children knows what I’m talking about.

Like children, most festivals come to life by accident, some are strategical planned but love has to be involved almost always. Of corse there are the cases of artificial conception but we’re not talking about those festivals here.

Ones you put a child/festival out into the world you have to live with it, you naturally accept all demands, dynamics, developments and challenges – you are responsible now.

You’re constantly busy catching up to manage logistics, new time structures, coordinations and paperwork. But you don’t mind, everything is new and exciting, unquestionable. You make mistakes and have doubts but you develop routines helping to manage that new reality. You’re payed off by the countless moments of pleasure and excitement, every new little thing you discover and every small step makes you happy.

Up to a certain age, let’s say up to 3 or 4, children are allowed to just be in the world, learn the basics of communication and interaction and explore everything in a unprejudiced and wild way. Surly some very distinct character properties might flash up here and there but you are still in a protection zone, the outside world is judging very mildly and sympathetically. Kids can’t do so much wrong, almost everything they propose is getting applause.

Things change and get more complicated around the age of 5, when people start to expect a certain reasonability and consciousness. You have to behave and play with social rules, things become more political. Negotiating and compromising starts. Certainly that innocence is getting lost. That naivety which produced so much questions and surprises fades away. By the age of 10 you are considered very often as almost grown up. You have to fit into the system, play the system and long ago you started to compete. There seems to be no other option, you have to grow up further, become more prudential, rational and adult.

Looking backwards on the history of a festival is as nice and dangerous as looking at a family photo album, full of romanticization and sentimentality.

And like all metaphors – this one is not fully working. Of course this is not about idealizing the state of naivety and trying to avoid confrontation with reality. Especially not in the case of Tsonami, a festival what is so deeply involved with the social context, operates so thoughtfully and responsible within the city. What I’m trying to address here is the format of a festival itself. If „art is like a thought send to you from the future“ as Timothy Morton said, should not festivals be the temporary shelters, free spaces and laboratories for the artists?

If it’s the role of art to be curious constantly, be a step ahead of society and generate these little shifts of perception, provoke these moments of pure excitement and astonishment – festivals should concentrate those free energies, make things possible which have no place otherwise. They should explore fearless new forms of production, presentation, translation and mediation to a wider audience without to much concerns. Festivals have to generate these little islands in time and society for their audiences which can change your perspective.

Or maybe some festival you wish might never grow up, and keep their spirit playful exploring the world…

Oskar Matzerath, the hero in Guenther Grass’s „Tin Drum“ decides on his third birthday not to grow anymore. Intellectually and humanly very well developing he remains in the body of a child. Whenever he has to protect himself against the world of grown ups he starts to scream in a pitch which can break glass and he uses his tin drum to articulate his protest against the dishonest and conniving world of the adults.

Still this is only one angle to look at things, but maybe a picture for how I imagine a festival working with sound in society….

My older daughter is turning 10 this year, I hope in a few years time, when she is starting to go to festivals, she will attend a festival which is made with love and passion and will have – instead of just consume – the same experience of productive stimulation I had. Maybe this will be the 20th edition of Tsonami in Valparaiso.

October 2017

Carsten Stabenow, Prologue for the book "Tsonami - 10 años"
available soon - ISBN 978-956-393-196-9

33°02’34.1″S 71°37’51.3″W
03.12.2017

 

Several thousand miles south of the equator along the Pacific coast of South America, is the site of the Open City Amereida. It is a laboratory for thought and work, conceived and built by the faculty of architecture of the Catholic University of Valparaiso. Here architects, poets, artists, and engineers have been engaged in one of architectural education’s most radical experiments for several decades. The school has long been a destination for those seeking an alternative to conventional academic practice and teaching.

Exhibition @ Goethe Institut Santiago
06.12. – 31.12.2017 / opening 06.12.2017, 12:30

Sound art in public spaces constitutes the centre of Bonn Hoeren’s artistic work and research area. Initiated in 2010 by the Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture of the City of Bonn, the curated project by Carsten Seiffarth (Berlin) has been studying continuously the acoustic conditions and sonic contexts which define modern urban spaces. For that Bonn Hoeren appoints yearly one artist to be that year’s city sound artist of Bonn. And with a residency the artist realizes a new sound installation for the city. In addition, the residences include acoustic research and onsite investigations as well as scientific side events and education projects.

The exhibition »Urban Sound Art« documents the large sound installation projects created by Bonn city sound artists since 2010. Works by Sam Auinger (2010), Erwin Stache (2011), Andreas Oldörp (2012), Christina Kubisch (2013), Max Eastley (2014), Stefan Rummel (2014), Edwin van der Heide (2015) and Gordon Monahan (2016) give an overview of how diverse the sound artists’ engagement with urban situations and spaces under Bonn Hoeren is.

 

   

»Urban Sound Art« is an exhibition of Bonn Hoeren, a project from the Beethoven Foundation for Art and Culture of the City of Bonn.
In Collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Santiago.

Artistic and Project Leader: Carsten Seiffarth
Co-curator, exhibition texts: Markus Steffens
Translations: Philip Jacobs
Set-up in Santiago: Carsten Stabenow
Design: graphic office cyan

33°01’36.0″S 71°38’10.3″W
27.11.2017

microphone, amplifier, headphones

If from time to time I ascribe independent agency to noise, I hope to catch myself at paragraph’s end and return us to the people, hard-pressed, middling or wealthy, young or middling or centenarian, urban or rural or suburban, military or civilian, who give meaning to noise.

quote source: Hillel Schwartz - Making Noise - From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond, MIT University Press, 2011