Porto Alegre, Brasil
1. Poetic Terrorism
Airplanes crashing are projected on the airport. At the arrivals and departure section.
Place: Aeroporto Salgado Filho.
2. Orgulho Gaúcho
Projection of faces of real gauchos at the stereotype monument to the gaucho, wich face was change from real people to a singer. Good idea: project on busses an big trucks!
Place: Monumento Laçador.
3. Sex / Love
THIS SECTION WAS TAKED OFF BY THE ORDER OF A LOCAL JUDGE IN PORTO ALEGRE, IT WILL CAME BACK WHEN THE LEGAL SITUATION IT'S OK
A projection of a kiss in loop, at the red zone of the city. It was also made a projection of the same kiss by car to the avenue
Place: Avenida Farrapos (zona roja). Nota Reforma Nota Zero Hora
4. Homenagem a Seu Madruga
A videografiti of Don Ramon, a very popular mexican actor in south america.
Place: Abandoned lot.
5. Art in video for homeless
Projecting single channel video pieces on walls. All kind of publics.
Place: Rua Dos Andradas, centro de Porto Alegre.
6. Searching for more public -- failend interaciton
Try to project videoart in a stadium, at the end of the game. Too much caos, they just want the spotlight. A little bit dangerous!
Place: Futbol Satdium Gigante da Beira-Rio, River (Argentina) against Internacional (Porto Alegre).
7. Videointerventions in "holy" places
he official oppening of the 5ª Bienal del Mercosur. While Gilberto Gil, the responsable for the oficial culture support in Brasil, was singing “Soy loco por ti América” (I'm crazy for you America), videoman projected some "fabelas" on the walls of the place.
Place: Centro Cultural Santander de Porto Alegre.
Distrito Federal, México
8. Local pride\: unauthorized publicity (urban videospam)
Local historic files from Satélite city are projected on the Satelite towers. Macking the promotion of a url (www.satelín-torres.org) that promotes the culture from the area.
Place: Torres de Satélite, north of Mexico City
9. Sacred Content
Projection of some pirats materials in CD buy at downtown, at the Fine Arts Palace.
Place: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Downtown.
10. Helping other contents
Sunday at Coyoacán, a plaza full of people, musicians, clowns, etc. Interacting with a dancer (Pilar Gallegos). Helping her to gain attention.
Place: Coyoacan, at the south of Mexico city.
Guanajuato, México
13. Cervezantes
Besides presenting many cultural events, the Festival Cervantino is a big street party. Let’s assume that and project its participants, alcoholic characters in the night, as a main dish of experience.
Place: Center of Guanajuato
14. Still Life
The city of Guanajuato is full of tunnels; their origins are in connection with water: at first, these tunnels were channeled rivers. Underwater shoots, water, are projected on the tunnel walls. This is an act of creative visualization to appreciate this valuable liquid that flow through the veins of this city.
Place: Tunnels (like the Miguel Hidalgo Street, previous the River Guanajuato).
15. You project and then you leave
With reference to the quotation from Fox to Fidel Castro: “You eat and then you leave”, Videoman carried out a projection without content, simultaneously to the official inauguration of the Festival by the president Vicente Fox.
Place: Public highway an the city of Guanajuato.
Madrid, Spain
16. Discovering the colon
Projection of male gay porno videos to remark the idea that the invasion of the iberians to America was not a discovery anything.
Place: Monument to Colón
17. Promoting good traditions (or "crossbred botellón")
The main problem of immigration at Spain comes from Ecuador, Videoman projects ecuadorian karaokes on a illegal street party.
Place: Plaza Vázquez de Mella (Chueca)
18. Artistic solidarity
Supporting the colleges: I download from the web the video of Santiago Cirugeda, and project it at his piece to give more info to the audience. Later I went to the Bank of Spain to try to project the piece of Jota Casto where he ask to the people of Spain to return all the gold the stole from the Incas. Unfortunately for some technical reasons we could project and we could claim the gold. It seems they don't want to give it back.
Place: Paseo de los Recoletos and Bank of Spain.
19. Parasite projection (or mexican the neighbors)
On the opening of a brasilian photographer at La Casa de América, where the project of Videoman was also exhibited, I project all the memory of the videointervencions to all the audience that came. This time without electric autonomy, using the electricity of the place.
Place: Casa de américa
20. Expressing Opinions
The Partido Popular (PP, conservative party in Spain) made some polemic declarations about some law modifications. During the day I interview some citizens and at night I project their opinions in their main office.
Place: Popular Party head quarters, Calle Génova.
Morelia, Michoacán
23. I buy then I am
Numbers and statistics that critique the consumption are projected on a mall.
Place: A mall
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
27. Publicity on wheels
From a skateboard I project the info of the project to several cars in movement.
Place: A transited avenue at Belo Horizonte.
Ginebra, Suiza
30. Chihuahuas attack!
Videohuahua projects angry chihuahuas barking.
Place: Outside an art gallery, at his opening.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
34. Curatorial appendix
During the video exhibition "past / present" curated from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, I project on a blimp the videos of Pola Weiss and Andrea di Castro, pioneers of videoart in Mexico.
Place: Espacio Fundación Telefónica.
El Paso, EUA
37. Border Spectacle
Projection of narco-videos on the same building where people paid to watch the Mexican Revolution.
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39. Invoking Teresa Urrea
Revolutionary tourism: Teresita Urrea is projected on her own house, a predecessor of the Mexican Revolution.
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