{"id":4614,"date":"2017-11-12T02:38:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2023-05-15T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:56:58","slug":"el-plastico-con-el-que-vivimos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=4614","title":{"rendered":"The Plastic We Live With \/ El pl\u00e1stico con el que vivimos. Bordeaux 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last October the FAB Festival de Bordeaux, along with the city council, invited us to carry out The Plastic We Live With<\/strong>, a piece we had intended to materialize for a long time.<\/p>\n

The idea was to graphically visualize, in a way that could be understood by all, the plastic excess that is around us, a recurrent subject in our work and in life, since practically everything we consume is either made with this material or it is wrapped in it or we are eating it in small particles in the meat and the fish we ingest.<\/p>\n

Plastic we are and to plastic we shall return\u2026<\/p>\n

Recycling isn\u2019t enough to tackle this problem. That\u2019s why the French government, among others, has taken measures to reduce its consumption as much as possible by outlawing outlawing the usage of plastic bags <\/a> at stores which are being replaced by paper bags or bags made of biodegradable materials.<\/p>\n

This anti-bag context was essential to properly develop our piece in Bordeaux since we needed more than 6,000 units which we obtained at warehouses from all the city stores.<\/p>\n

We intervened the old Virgin Megastore building with them, completely filling the gaps of its facade so it looked as if the plastic were about to blow up the building.<\/p>\n

In spite of being a light installation, it also worked during the day. People could get close to it and try to recognize the bags from their favorite stores. When its interior was lit at night, the windows looked as though they were covered with stained glass though in a more plastic, toxic version.<\/p>\n

The piece remained lit for 4 days and, once dismantled, all the plastic material was properly recycled, and the building was left in the same condition in which we found it.<\/p>\n

This piece has entailed quite complicated logistics which would have been impossible to carry out had we not had the help of more than 30 volunteers from the\u00a0Asociacion B\u00e9n\u00e9voles en Action<\/a>.\u00a0They collected the necessary bags and recycled plastic for 3 months, and also worked with us assembling and dismantling. We must confess that this piece belongs more to them than to us.<\/p>\n

We wouldn\u2019t have been able to do this without the active collaboration of of\u00a0La Direction G\u00e9n\u00e9ralle des Affaires Culturelles de Mairie de Bordeaux<\/a>. They worked as a team during all this process and even agreed to having their offices filled with our plastics.<\/p>\n

The Fab Festival de Bourdeaux<\/a> squeezed us into their program and provided us aid and support at all times. Cote Ouest<\/strong><\/a>, a producer company, managed to make our weird requests real despite all the difficulties.<\/p>\n

Our thanks to the Financiere Immobiliere Bordelaise<\/strong><\/a> real estate agency which lent us the building without conditions or objections, and to the Transfert<\/strong><\/a> artists who generously allowed us to cover their work for a few days. We promised to leave it in the same condition we found it, and so we did.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Lucas, Flavian, Coralie and Antoinette, for being such good brothers-in-arms.<\/p>\n

We are amazed at how that which we shyly conceived years ago, has turned into a quite similar reality and we also managed, to our satisfaction, to remove most of the bags that had been stored by the city stores.<\/p>\n

The images belong to Lola Mart\u00ednez<\/a> who braved her fears and climbed on to a crane to achieve unique photo compositions.<\/p>\n

Time of installation: and installation:10 days.
\nDamages: none.
\nExhibition time: 4 days.<\/p>\n

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El pasado mes de octubre, el Festival Fab de Burdeos en colaboraci\u00f3n con el Ayuntamiento de la ciudad, nos invit\u00f3 a llevar a cabo El pl\u00e1stico con el que vivimos<\/strong>, una pieza que llev\u00e1bamos tiempo intentando materializar.<\/p>\n

La idea era visualizar, de una manera gr\u00e1fica y f\u00e1cilmente entendible por todos, el exceso de pl\u00e1stico que nos rodea, un tema recurrente en nuestro trabajo y en la vida, ya que pr\u00e1cticamente todo lo que consumimos, est\u00e1 hecho de este material o va envuelto en \u00e9l o nos lo estamos comiendo en min\u00fasculas part\u00edculas que se encuentran en la carne y el pescado.<\/p>\n

Pl\u00e1stico somos y en pl\u00e1stico nos convertiremos…<\/p>\n

Reciclar no basta para atajar el problema.Por eso, gobiernos como el franc\u00e9s, ya han tomando medidas para reducir en lo posible su consumo, prohibiendo el uso de bolsas de\u00a0pl\u00e1stico <\/a>en las tiendas, que son sustituidas por otras de papel o de materiales biodegradables.<\/p>\n

Este contexto anti-bolsas fue esencial para el buen desarrollo de nuestra pieza en Burdeos, ya que necesitamos m\u00e1s de 6.000 unidades, que conseguimos de almacenes y tiendas de toda la ciudad.<\/p>\n

Con ellas intervinimos el antiguo Virgin Megastore, llenando completamente los huecos de sus fachadas para\u00a0que pareciera diera la impresi\u00f3n que el pl\u00e1stico estaba a punto de reventar el edificio.<\/p>\n

A pesar de ser una instalaci\u00f3n de luz, tambi\u00e9n funcionaba de d\u00eda y la gente pod\u00eda acercarse y jugar a reconocer las bolsas de sus tiendas favoritas. De noche, iluminadas desde el interior, las ventanas parec\u00edan cubiertas por vidrieras de colores, pero en una versi\u00f3n mas pl\u00e1stica y t\u00f3xica.<\/p>\n

La pieza estuvo encendida 4 d\u00edas. Despu\u00e9s del\u00a0 desmontaje, todo el material pl\u00e1stico fue convenientemente reciclado y el edificio qued\u00f3 en el mismo estado en que nos lo encontramos.<\/p>\n

Ha sido \u00e9sta una pieza \u00a0de gran complicaci\u00f3n log\u00edstica, que hubiera sido imposible llevar a cabo sin la ayuda de m\u00e1s de 30 voluntarios de la Asociacion B\u00e9n\u00e9voles en Action<\/a> que, durante 3 meses, recolectaron las bolsas y el pl\u00e1stico reciclado necesarios, y que adem\u00e1s trabajaron a nuestro lado, tanto en el montaje como en el desmontaje. Debemos reconocer que la pieza les pertenece m\u00e1s a ellos que a nosotros.<\/p>\n

Tampoco lo hubi\u00e9ramos conseguido sin la colaboraci\u00f3n activa de La Direction G\u00e9n\u00e9ralle des Affaires Culturelles de Mairie de Bordeaux<\/a>, ellos trabajaron en equipo durante todo el proceso, consintiendo incluso que les llen\u00e1ramos sus despachos con nuestros pl\u00e1sticos.<\/p>\n

El Fab Festival de Bourdeaux<\/a> nos hizo un hueco en su programaci\u00f3n y nos dio cobertura y apoyo en todo momento, Por su parte,\u00a0Cote Ouest<\/a>, empresa productora, consigui\u00f3 hacer de nuestras extra\u00f1as peticiones una realidad, a pesar de las complicaciones.<\/p>\n

Nuestro agradecimiento a la inmobiliaria Financiere Immobiliere Bordelaise<\/a> que nos prest\u00f3 el edificio sin poner reparos ni condiciones, y a los artistas de\u00a0Transfert<\/a> que generosamente nos permitieron cubrir su trabajo por unos d\u00edas. Nosotros nos comprometimos a dej\u00e1rlos en el mismo estado que nos los encontramos, y as\u00ed lo hicimos.<\/p>\n

Gracias especiales a Lucas, Flavian, Coralie y Antoinette, por ser tan buenos compa\u00f1eros de fatigas.<\/p>\n

Estamos maravillados de que lo que t\u00edmidamente imaginamos<\/a> hace ya unos a\u00f1os, haya acabado siendo una realidad tan similar. Aadem\u00e1s para nuestra satisfacci\u00f3n, conseguimos retirar la mayor\u00eda de las bolsas que permanec\u00edan a\u00fan almacenadas en las tiendas de la ciudad.<\/p>\n

La im\u00e1genes son de Lola Mart\u00ednez<\/a> que desafiando sus miedos se subi\u00f3 a la gr\u00faa para conseguir unos encuadres fotogr\u00e1ficos \u00fanicos.<\/p>\n

Tiempo de montaje e instalaci\u00f3n: 10 d\u00edas
\nDa\u00f1os ocasionados: 0.
\nPermanencia de la intervenci\u00f3n: 4 d\u00edas.<\/em><\/p>\n

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