With the support of Konstnärsnämnden and Stockholms Stads Kulturförvaltning we embarked on a 2 week stay with the purpose of preparing a project application. Of course our stay did not only include networking, writing applications and laying out schedules, but also hands-on-preparations by artistic interventions. Equipped with a Noon Pinhole Camera, a lost-and-found cherub from the Sta Ana Church in Zegache we made a 35 frames pinhole camera animation of a rotating Cherub. The little angel with the unclear past had to be restored before photographed. In addition to this, one of the artisans, Chiquis, constructed a nifty little platform for spinning it around its own axis. The Cherub's feet got a new pair of wooden clogs, making him/her stand upright without having to attach him with screws.
The workshop went on for 2 days and it introduced pinhole camera photography as well as dark room work. Together with the Georgina Saldaña Wonchee (director of the Talleres Comunitarios de Zegache) artisans we developed a small shrine (nicho) for laid-off IPhones/Pods. The aim with this artifact is to give your personal consumer electronics longer life - people tend to throw away their iphones or ipods after a while, buying a more recent one. The phone/pod can rest in peace forever in the little graveyard shrine. For those who still use their Iphones/Ipods the shrine can be used as a charger ;). We made a small Iphone app out of the spinning Cherub, which will be included when buying a shrine/nicho from the Talleres.
Finally we made some portraits of each other. As an additional project we put it on ourselves to make a mirror for the Talleres - featuring an appearing and vanishing Alma de Maria through the mirror glass. More to come.....
