IVAM and Hangar, Valencia and Barcelona, ​​Next Appointment Artifariti

HANGAR, the center of visual arts production located in the neighborhood of Poble Nou in Barcelona, ​​will host on Wednesday 17, at 19 pm, the presentation of ARTIFARITI 2009, III International Meeting of Art in liberated territories of Western Sahara. His manager Ignacio Somovilla was last year at the meetings to study the possibility of creating an artists' residence Tifariti, which has already resulted in the participation of Catalan designer Antoni Abad video in the meetings, which will undoubtedly be significant the same path. Both tell their experiences and future projects and with them will be the Sevillian artist Federico Guzman closely linked to the project from its participation in the 2008 - and the coordinator of ARTIFARITI, Chaska Mori. On Thursday 18, at 20 am, 2009 ARTIFARITI also visit the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. This time the presentation will take place in the lounge acts of the IVAM, will be borne by the curator of this third edition, Pamen Pereira, the Polisario Front representative in the Community of Valencia, Mohamed el Mamun, the president of the Association Friends of the Saharawi people of Seville, Fernando Peraita, Argentina and artist Claudia Martinez, who recounted his experience in the meetings and their project "Taking the thread," realized in collaboration with Valencia and Saharawi women.

During these events the artists will be invited to present to participate in the Call for Projects 2009, open until June 30, in which selected six proposals to develop 17 to October 31 in Western Sahara Released (Bases at www. artifariti.org or http://artifariti.blogspot.com/). These two presentations, which this month will join the Berlin Trade Fair and the Pan-African Culture in Algiers, and the commitment of the artists associated with the project support the quality and commitment of the call, an appointment with the practice art as a tool to vindicate human rights, the right of individuals and peoples to their land, their culture, their roots and freedom. A space where art acts as a factor of social transformation, the creator Juan Alcon describes it: "ARTIFARITI offers us an opportunity to think and act, an opportunity for knowledge and social and artistic practice. It crosses a referential space political conflict, with a living space with people and situations. It creates a framework from which to develop and discuss approaches to public art, an art alien to private ownership in a context "nomadic" where the boundary between private and public is diluted, which does not replace the private intimacy.

A potential space where issues such as artists and as people. A listening room, where trying new looks and new models of relationship. Fertile ground in the middle of the desert, for the exchange of ideas and experiences. An art space located in his sights the need to transform reality. "

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