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EntreExpo
A device to open up an art centre to emerging and unknown artists
Abstract
EntreExpo is a site-specific performance that seeks to facilitate access to the art centre for unknown artists from the Global South while at the same time bringing the space closer to the neighbourhood through migration processes.
EntreExpo is a site-specific performance in which a guest artist from the Global South uses the centre's exhibition space as a studio. In a practical sense, this prototype aims to offer the space between exhibitions so that emerging or unknown artists who usually have no access to the museum walls have this possibility. At the same time, the proposals of these artists are conceived as activities that can bring the centre closer to the people who live in the neighbourhood.
During the course of the second edition of the prototype EntreActes, artist Noor Issa turned the entrance hall of the Santa Mònica into her creative space. She could be found working, chatting with others or simply spending time in the space with the canvas, water, a chair and some flowers.
BACKGROUND
- A working team.
- An artistic space or institution.
- Artists who may be invited to the centre.
- Where appropriate, specific material for artistic creation.
INGREDIENTS
1. Research artists who, due to their legal status, have difficulties in accessing institutional exhibition spaces.
2. Depending on feasible budget and logistics, determine how many and which artists will be invited.
3. Organise a meeting to explain the project and what you want to propose.
4. Agree together what needs there are, in each case, so that they can make use of the space as a workshop, and hold meetings with the centre to see the feasibility of the proposal and organise the necessary material (if applicable) and logistics.
5. Let the artist perform the site-specific performance during the set times.
STEPS
It is important that there is good communication and coordination with the centre's installation team, so that the space can respond to the artistic needs.
An interesting adaptation of this prototype would be to be able to reproduce it with different artists, so that the public could find several studios and see different ways of working scattered around the centre. It would also be interesting if every day or every other day the studios changed space, in order to encourage interaction and dialogue among the participants.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADVICE
* This recipe is based on documentation of the entire process. For more details, contact us at santamonica@gencat.cat.
