{"id":2272,"date":"2013-12-22T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2023-05-15T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:04:07","slug":"arbol-de-navidad-consumista-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Consumerist Christmas Tree \/ \u00c1rbol de navidad consumista"},"content":{"rendered":"

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El pasado noviembre nos fuimos de festivales por el mundo… primero visitamos el Glow de\u00a0Eindhoven <\/a>donde volvimos a dejar nuestro R\u00edo Port\u00e1til<\/a> y de ah\u00ed nos marchamos al Lumiere de\u00a0Durham<\/a>, para llevar a cabo una pieza a gran escala, que trascend\u00eda las fechas del propio festival para seguir iluminando la ciudad durante las fiestas navide\u00f1as.<\/p>\n

Para esta pieza nos basamos en la instalaci\u00f3n Basura pl\u00e1stica custodiando museo<\/a>, <\/strong>que ya hab\u00edamos llevamos a cabo en el Gewerbemuseum<\/a>, pero esta vez quer\u00edamos darle una doble intenci\u00f3n de denuncia, por un lado el uso masivo de bolsas de pl\u00e1stico y las consecuencias que este tiene para la medio ambiente, y por otro, el consumo excesivo e innecesario que se produce en estas fechas navide\u00f1as.<\/p>\n

Ten\u00eda todo el sentido esta pieza no s\u00f3lo por las fechas sino porque el espacio que nos asignaron para su ubicaci\u00f3n era la zona comercial del centro de la ciudad y se contaba con el patrocinio de la asociaci\u00f3n de comerciantes, que hab\u00eda pedido que la pieza se conservara durante el periodo navide\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

Durante todo el periodo que estuvimos trabajando en la pieza, adem\u00e1s coincidi\u00f3 la huelga de los servicios de basura de Madrid, por lo que con m\u00e1s motivos, estuvimos totalmente solidarizados con los trabajadores.<\/p>\n

Para llevar a cabo nuestro gigante Consumerist Christmas Tree<\/span>,<\/strong><\/a> por supuesto, necesitamos la colaboraci\u00f3n de muchos vecinos, que deb\u00edan darnos las bolsas que iban acumulando con las compras previas a la navidad.<\/p>\n

Para animar las donaciones, se organiz\u00f3 una campa\u00f1a previa de difusi\u00f3n, en la que se invitaba, a cambiar bolsas de pl\u00e1stico por otras de tela dise\u00f1adas para la ocasi\u00f3n. De este modo conseguimos unas 4.000 unidades, de las que acabamos usando 3.000. Adem\u00e1s, para darles volumen, las llenamos con pl\u00e1stico transparente, generado por las tiendas de alrededor durante las fechas de montaje, inimaginable la cantidad de pl\u00e1stico de embalaje que se desecha en los comercios en estas fechas.<\/p>\n

Para llevar a cabo el proceso de montaje, se convoc\u00f3 a vecinos<\/a> asociaciones y colegios para que se acercaran a nuestro espacio de trabajo, una tienda que se hab\u00eda quedado vac\u00eda y que nos sirvi\u00f3 para montar un taller que m\u00e1s que un espacio de trabajo parec\u00eda un parque de bolas gigantes, donde lo que m\u00e1s apetec\u00eda, era zambullirse entre las bolsas y quedar sepultado. Con mucha ayuda, logramos terminar el trabajo en una semana.<\/p>\n

Una vez tuvimos las bolsas llenas y cerradas, nos echamos a la calle, concretamente a la plaza del Prince Bishops Shopping Centre, donde nos esperaba una enorme estructura prefabricada en forma c\u00f3nica de 9 metros de alto que deb\u00edamos forrar con nuestro material pl\u00e1stico.<\/p>\n

Despu\u00e9s, s\u00f3lo nos qued\u00f3 meter luz en el interior y ya estaba listo nuestro plastificado y reciclado \u00e1rbol navide\u00f1o, hecho a base de montones de\u00a0 bolsas consumistas, que se pod\u00edan haber dejado de fabricar si la gente concienciada se llevara sus propias bolsas cuando van a hacer la compra.<\/p>\n

Adem\u00e1s, para iluminar todo el camino que conduc\u00eda al \u00e1rbol, montamos un tendido de luces que forramos con las bolsas sobrantes, convirtiendo simples bombillas de bajo consumo, en vistosas guirnaldas de luz que daban a la calle un ambiente verbenero de lo m\u00e1s popular.<\/p>\n

Al finalizar las fiestas, todos los pl\u00e1sticos ser\u00e1n reciclados convenientemente y las estructuras vueltas a reutilizar, qui\u00e9n sabe para qu\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Disfrutamos como ni\u00f1os, con las bolsas y pasamos unos d\u00edas incre\u00edbles compartidos con vecinos artistas y amigos de la organizaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Queremos dar las gracias a todos los amigos de Artichoke<\/a>, tanto a los organizadores como a los que trabajaron con nosotros a pie de obra, que con su profesionalidad y buen talante nos lo pusieron todo muy f\u00e1cil. A los vecinos que nos ayudaron y compartieron buen humor y trabajo duro, a la gente de Prince Bishops Shopping Centre, que adem\u00e1s de hacer posible la instalaci\u00f3n nos apoyaron log\u00edsticamente en todo momento, a nuestro querido amigo Koldo<\/a>, que fue capaz de conseguir que todo funcionara como un reloj sin ning\u00fan tipo de estr\u00e9s, a Antonio, que nos acompa\u00f1\u00f3 y\u00a0 nos hizo pasar una de las noches m\u00e1s divertidas que recordamos,… y por supuesto… a los habitantes de Durham que nos entregaron sus bolsas para una buena causa.<\/p>\n

Las fotos, como no pod\u00eda ser de otro modo, son de Gustavo Sanabria<\/a>, las de los talleres las tom\u00f3 Koldo.<\/p>\n

Esta pieza ha sido comisionada por\u00a0Artichoke<\/a>, para Lumiere, Durham 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tiempo de montaje: 13 d\u00edas.
\nDa\u00f1os ocasionados: 0.
\nPermanencia de la intervenci\u00f3n: 2 meses.<\/p>\n

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In November we went to festivals around the world\u2026 first we visited Glow in\u00a0Eindhoven <\/a> where we once again displayed our Portable River<\/a> and from there we went to Lumiere in\u00a0Durham<\/a>, to carry out a large-scale piece, which transcended the dates of the festival to continue to illuminate the city during the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

We based this piece on the installation Plastic garbage guarding the museum<\/a>, <\/strong>that we had already carried out at the <\/strong>Gewerbemuseum<\/a>, But this time we wanted to give a double edge to our complaint, on the one hand the massive use of plastic bags and the consequences this has on the environment, and on the other hand, the excessive and unnecessary consumption that occurs during the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

This piece made complete sense not only for the dates, but also because the space allocated to us for its location was the shopping area in the center of the city and was under the sponsorship of the association of merchants, which had requested that the piece be maintained during the Christmas period.<\/p>\n

During the whole period that we were working on the piece, in addition, it coincided with the garbage service strike in Madrid, so, for even more reasons, we displayed our total solidarity with the workers.<\/p>\n

To carry out our giant Consumerist Christmas Tree<\/span><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/a> of course, we needed the collaboration of many residents, who had to give us the bags that were accumulating from the shopping prior to Christmas.<\/p>\n

To encourage donations, a campaign was organized prior to its promotion, in which people were invited, to exchange plastic bags for cloth ones designed for the occasion. In this way we got about 4,000 units, of which we ended up using 3,000. In addition, to give them volume, we filled them with clear plastic, generated by the surrounding shops during the assembly dates, the amount of plastic packaging that is discarded by the shops during these dates is beyond imagination.<\/p>\n

To carry out the assembly process, we reached out to residents<\/a> associations and colleges to come to our workspace, a store that had been empty and which served to host a workshop, which more than a workspace seemed like a giant ball park, where what one most fancied, was to dive into the bags and remain buried in them. With a lot of help, we completed the work in a week.<\/p>\n

Once we had bags filled and closed up, we went out into the street, more precisely, to the Prince Bishops Shopping Centre plaza, where a huge, 9 meter high, conically shaped, prefabricated structure that we had to cover with our plastic materials waited for us.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, we only had to put the lights inside them and our plasticized, recycled Christmas tree was ready, made out of piles of consumerist bags, that they could have ceased to manufacture if conscientious people took their own bags with them when they went shopping.<\/p>\n

In addition, to illuminate the entire path that led to the tree, we hung some strings of lights that we covered with the leftover bags, turning simple low consumption light bulbs, into colorful garlands of light which brought to the street a festival like environment.<\/p>\n

Once the Holidays are over, all the plastics will be conveniently recicled and the structures will be reused, who knows for what.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed ourselves like children with the bags and we spent a few incredible days shared with resident artists and friends of the organization.<\/p>\n

We want to thank all the friends of Artichoke<\/a>, both to the organizers as well as to those who worked with us on the project, whose professionalism and good humor made everything very easy for us. To the residents who helped us and shared their good humor and hard work, to the people of Prince Bishops Shopping Center, who in addition to making the installation possible supported us logistically at all times, to our dear friend Koldo<\/a>, who was able to make everything function like clockwork without any kind of stress, to Antonio, who accompanied us and provided us with one of the most enjoyable nights that we remember,\u2026 and of course\u2026 to the inhabitants of Durham who gave us their bags for a good cause.<\/p>\n

The photos, which could not be otherwise, are by Gustavo Sanabria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This piece was comissioned by Artichoke<\/a>, for Lumiere, Durham 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Time of installation: 13 days
\nDamages: none.
\nExhibition time: 2 mounths<\/em><\/p>\n

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