Agostamiento is a site-specific intervention made by the Madrid-based art collective Basurama for Abierto x Obras program. It takes place in the old walk-in freezer which was the slaughterhouse of Legazpi. Basurama proposes an interior landscape extracted from the 7000 sunflowers field which has grown along with the residents of Gran Via del Sureste, in the Eixample district of Vallecas. An impossible public space that - in the words of Basurama - "invites to chat and eat pipes, looking ahead from darkness".
The abandoned"central boulevard" of this avenue - an open field of 350 meters long and 30 wide- is one of the many remains that the housing bubble's explosion has left in our city. A bleak and disturbing urban landscape, which proposed and reinvented itself as an agricultural landscape, to become a productive and meeting space. Among the remains of the new city lives people who have decided to take charge of their lives and their neighborhoods, managing their public spaces. In time of withering, the circle of life and inflorescence opens a huge living space to build and share.
Basurama is a group dedicated to research, creation and cultural and environmental production founded in 2001. Their area of study focuses on performance and production processes, waste generation and these involve the creative possibilities raised by these contemporary situations.
They also aims to establish a platform for coming into contact and work together characters of the social framework that occupy very different places and yet they are not far apart, also considered as a creative node - meeting space. They have completed more than 100 projects on five continents, based in Madrid and with a permanent office in Milan and Bilbao.
Abierto x Obras, in Matadero Madrid, is a program of site specific interventions which invites artists to make a piece of new production stimulating the experimental nature of the contemporary creation through approaches that explore the relationship between art and the place which houses it, the old Slaughterhouse's walk-in freezer. An over 800 square meters room that still retains its original appearance and traces of the fire happened in the 90s. A characteristic space for its diaphanous structure of frilly arches and columns. Since 2007, Abierto x Obras has welcomed the interventions by artists such as Daniel Canogar, Jannis Kounnellis, Roman Signer, Carlos Garaicoa, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Jordi Colomer, The Carpenters, Cristina Lucas, Eugenio Ampudia or Darya von Berner among others.
The abandoned"central boulevard" of this avenue - an open field of 350 meters long and 30 wide- is one of the many remains that the housing bubble's explosion has left in our city. A bleak and disturbing urban landscape, which proposed and reinvented itself as an agricultural landscape, to become a productive and meeting space. Among the remains of the new city lives people who have decided to take charge of their lives and their neighborhoods, managing their public spaces. In time of withering, the circle of life and inflorescence opens a huge living space to build and share.
Basurama is a group dedicated to research, creation and cultural and environmental production founded in 2001. Their area of study focuses on performance and production processes, waste generation and these involve the creative possibilities raised by these contemporary situations.
They also aims to establish a platform for coming into contact and work together characters of the social framework that occupy very different places and yet they are not far apart, also considered as a creative node - meeting space. They have completed more than 100 projects on five continents, based in Madrid and with a permanent office in Milan and Bilbao.
Abierto x Obras, in Matadero Madrid, is a program of site specific interventions which invites artists to make a piece of new production stimulating the experimental nature of the contemporary creation through approaches that explore the relationship between art and the place which houses it, the old Slaughterhouse's walk-in freezer. An over 800 square meters room that still retains its original appearance and traces of the fire happened in the 90s. A characteristic space for its diaphanous structure of frilly arches and columns. Since 2007, Abierto x Obras has welcomed the interventions by artists such as Daniel Canogar, Jannis Kounnellis, Roman Signer, Carlos Garaicoa, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Jordi Colomer, The Carpenters, Cristina Lucas, Eugenio Ampudia or Darya von Berner among others.
