Some important people and friends

Description of the project

If identity is the common denominator of a group of people, the element that distinguish them from the others - helped by geographical boundaries, names, language or cultural interests- then promiscuity of human identity is unlimited. Some Important People & Friends was born in 2008 as a small collection of portraits, that has been increasing daily over three years, becoming an „archive“ of faces and identities. From that archive emerges the need of classifcation and activation, as well as the necessity of refexion about the current role of portrait. This brings us to study attitudes against realism and close to creation, starting in the unknown and the inexistence. Activation is achieved by a mechanism that starts with the search of stories for each character, linking the images with one or multiple identities through the narrative, following a process of creation that envolves what we have been, as well as what we want to be. All this, done in a way closer to the relational aesthetic of Nicolas Bourriaud than to the studio work, which is indebted to the genre of portraiture.

About Public Art
The city as a place for art. Worshipped by impressionists and futurists, the public space attracted different schools because of the extreme concentration of human actions. This makes it „the space where art meets public in a natural way“. The city becomes a paradigm, in which the artists plan their works with the purpose of bringing their art closer to the public and building a different relationship with it. It is possible to inhabit the space in a different  way, making it part of an aesthetic experience. As artists, we have the need to fnd and create  new ways to connect with the public, as our work is only complete  in confrontation with it. Taking up other spaces than museums and studios is part of the plan. The street is a context where our work is sourranded by many other elements that affect it and make it accessible from different ways.  

Art in the public sphere modifes the space, aswell as the space modifes art. Both public space and artwork are enriched by the action of the other and the public, that might fnd the work by chance, intereact with it, ignore it, destroy it...

In addition, we strongly think that the public sphere is a space to „taken“. If we don´t fll it with our messages and propositions, the spaces are going to be taken by other elements, most probably, publicity.

About the artists
Natalia Blanco

www.nataliablanco.net
*Petrópolis,Brasil,1980
In 2007, she graduated from the Castilla La Mancha Univesity of Fine Arts as Visual Artists, specializing in Mexico and Germany. In 2011 she obtained a master´s degree in arts, creation and investigation from the University of Vigo, Spain. She is planing to start her tesis next year.
In 2008 she moved to Berlin, where she co-founded iCollective, a multicultural artists collective, which works on multidisciplinary creation projects. Among her group exhibitions are: Unkul, Alte Weberei (Berlin) Something different (APW, New York); Latinlovers II (La Boheme Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA) Seven Days (Wir Gallery, Berlin), 48 Stunden Neukoelln, Story Box (Berlin); Measuring distances (470 Gabriel Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil); Offensichtlich Öffentlich (Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin) God come down and see (Amalgam Permanent Center of Gravity, Vigo).  

She lives and works in Berlin.


Betiana Bellofatto
http://www.icollective-berlin.com/artists-folder/betiana-bellofatto/
*Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979
In 2005, she graduated from the Buenos Aires University as Image & Sound Designer. She
studied Photography with Daniel Tubío and Lucila Bodelón. Between 2005 and 2008 she performed as Direction and Production Assistant in different short flms and commercial spots. 
In 2009 she moved to Berlin, where she co-founded iCollective, a multicultural artists collective, which works on multidisciplinary creation projects. She exhibited her work in Argentina, Spain and Germany. Her recent activity focuses on Photography and Installation.
Among her group exhibitions are: In Front of me, behind me, next to me (2011, Berlin), XI Exhibition of Documentary Film and Photography of Latin America (2011, Cantabria, Spain), Project Investir (Parallel events of  Manifesta 8, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain, 2010), Patently Public/Offensichtlich Öffentlich (Berlin, 2010), StoryBox – 48Hours Neukoeln (2010), 7Days (Berlin, 2009), Un Amor Cayó del Cielo (Argentina, 2008).
 

About been out, vol. 1

been out, vol. 1 is an all-arts competition for young artists exploring the parameters of art in the generation of digital natives. In these times of cross media and viral marketing, the open competition been out, vol. 1, organised by Bohème Précaire in cooperation with 2010LAB.tv, questions the art of the digital natives. Do they still know the meaning of art? Is there still a trade based on art?

According to the free-associating motto “go out, be out, include the outside”, the applicants should question and revalue the gridlocked meanings of urbanity, arts, architecture, and private and public sphere.

kunst.labor is the online-gallery of been out, vol. 1.

Further information: www.bohemeprecaire.com

And: www.facebook.com/beenout