{"id":4874,"date":"2018-01-01T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2023-05-15T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:56:23","slug":"islas-plasticas-madrid-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Islands \/ Islas pl\u00e1sticas. Madrid 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3626.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_3626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3644.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_3644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/239692988\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3704.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_3704\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_1220292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220292-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_1220297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220297-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_1220299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220299-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_1220301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220301-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_1220303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1220303-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_3318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3318-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_3322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3322-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_3334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_3334-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing better to top off the year than an installation that tries to dramatically visualize the excess of plastic in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>We carried it out in Madrid invited by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madridcultura.es\/lunadeoctubre\">Luna de Octubre<\/a> festival held the night of October 21th at the fountains of Cibeles, Neptuno and Apolo, Madrid\u2019s most emblematic fountains located over the Prado-Recoletos axis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plastic Islands<\/strong> is an adaptation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=3665\">Plastic Island,<\/a> a piece we had installed at Trafalgar Square for the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/lumiere\">Lumiere London 2016<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This time, the same goal: \u201c<em>To replicate, at a smaller scale, the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continente\">eighth continent\u201d<\/a> made of plastic and garbage which is alarmingly taking over great areas of the Pacific. Governments remain passive before this situation either because they lack interest or because they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecointeligencia.com\/2014\/04\/octavo-continente-plastico\/\">incapable to solve<\/a> this problem. They are allowing this huge mass of about 4 million tons of more or less crushed plastic to shape about 22,200 kilometers (about 13,794 miles) of irregular surface which goes 30 meters (about 98 feet) deep under the water, and is destroying most of the marine wildlife in the area and transforming the ecosystem<\/em><em>\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We needed 60,000 recycled bottles in order to intervene the 3 fountains which we collected for 3 months after they were requested from companies, small businesses, recycling plants and official organisms that generously donated them to us.<\/p>\n<p>We had to develop complicated logistics since the way recycling works in Madrid makes it impossible to salvage containers directly from the citizens\u2019 trash and the dumps where it arrives compressed and destroyed. However, we finally managed to get the necessary material to collapse the three fountains on all their levels, covering the entire surface of water with a layer of bottles. Not a square inch was left uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>We later illuminated the material and left it on display all night so people could stop to watch it and perhaps reflect on the massive usage of a material that is so dangerous and so hard to make disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Intervening such iconic and popular fountains has been a great accomplishment since they had hitherto been enjoyed only at highly secured sporting events. Our goal, from the start, was to help people approach them without any sort of barriers in between. Unfortunately, those who enforce the law decided to fence the perimeter so no-one could get close to the edge. A pity.<\/p>\n<p>We want to thank all the people who helped us build this: the team led by Monta\u00f1a Pulido and Susana S\u00e1nchez, who coordinated the logistics, and Burna, who produced the piece; the organizers of Luna de Octubre who thought of us for this event and believed in our expertise despite the difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>The companies and institutions that donated their bottles (*), of course, and the recycling plant of Ferrovial Servicios, Ecoembes and Valdeming\u00f3mez, that conveniently pointed us in the direction of the treasures, and all the friends who saved the material of their own consumed products. Without them, this would have been mission impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Also our friends from Workout who climbed with us into the garbage containers to salvage the bottles that were in good condition and later helped us fill the fountains.<\/p>\n<p>These great pictures were taken by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinezlola.com\/\">Lola Mart\u00ednez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. We like working with recycled materials though we must admit that it is not easy, or even sustainable in most cases, many interests created around garbage that we are discovering as we work on larger pieces. We foresee a bright future for anyone who decides to manage garbage for art installations as there are many of us who are involved in this.<\/p>\n<p>Time of installation: and installation:3 mouths.<br \/>\nDamages: none.<br \/>\nExhibition time: 1 night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Nada mejor para terminar el a\u00f1o que hacerlo con una instalaci\u00f3n que trata de visualizar, de manera dram\u00e1tica, el exceso de pl\u00e1stico en nuestras vidas.<\/p>\n<p>La llevamos a cabo en Madrid, por invitaci\u00f3n del festival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madridcultura.es\/lunadeoctubre\">Luna de Octubre<\/a> que se celebr\u00f3 la noche del 21 de octubre, en las fuentes de Cibeles, Neptuno y Apolo, las m\u00e1s emblem\u00e1ticas de Madrid y que est\u00e1n situadas en el Eje Prado-Recoletos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Islas Pl\u00e1sticas<\/strong>, es una adaptaci\u00f3n de la pieza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=3665\">Isla Pl\u00e1stica<\/a> que hab\u00edamos instalado en Trafalgar Square, para el festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/lumiere\">Lumiere London 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Esta vez, el mismo prop\u00f3sito: \u201cR<em>ecrear, a peque\u00f1a escala, ese\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continente\">octavo continente<\/a> de pl\u00e1stico y basura que va apoder\u00e1ndose alarmantemente de grandes extensiones del Pac\u00edfico, ante la distante mirada de los gobiernos que o bien por su falta de inter\u00e9s, o su\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecointeligencia.com\/2014\/04\/octavo-continente-plastico\/\">incapacidad para resolverlo<\/a> est\u00e1n dejando que una masa de unos 4 millones de toneladas de pl\u00e1stico mas o menos triturado, d\u00e9 forma a unos 22.200 kil\u00f3metros de superficie irregular con una profundidad de treinta metros bajo el mar, que esta destruyendo gran parte de la fauna marina y mutando el ecosistema\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Para intervenir las 3 fuentes necesitamos m\u00e1s de 60.000 botellas recicladas, que durante m\u00e1s de 3 meses fuimos recopilando, mediante un llamamiento a empresas, peque\u00f1os establecimientos, envasadoras, plantas de reciclaje y organismos oficiales que generosamente nos donaron su consumo.<\/p>\n<p>Tuvimos que desarrollar una complicada log\u00edstica, ya que la manera de reciclar en Madrid hace imposible recuperar envases directamente de la basura de los ciudadanos y de los vertederos, a los que ya llega compactada y destrozada. Pero finalmente logramos el material\u00a0 necesario para colapsar las tres fuentes en todos sus niveles, cubriendo la superficie total de agua con una capa de botellas, en la que no quedaba libre ni 1 cm2.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s, iluminamos el material y lo dejamos expuesto durante la noche, para que la gente pudiera pararse a mirarlo y quiz\u00e1s a reflexionar sobre el uso masivo de un material tan peligroso y dif\u00edcil de hacer desaparecer.<\/p>\n<p>Ha sido un gran logro poder intervenir estas fuentes, tan ic\u00f3nicas y familiares para nosotros, y que hasta ahora s\u00f3lo se hab\u00edan podido disfrutar en eventos deportivos de alta seguridad. Nuestro prop\u00f3sito desde el principio fue conseguir que la gente se pudiera aproximar a ellas sin ning\u00fan tipo de barreras de por medio. Desgraciadamente, los que velan por nuestra seguridad decidieron en el \u00faltimo momento vallar el per\u00edmetro para que nadie se pudiera acercar al borde. Una pena.<\/p>\n<p>Queremos dar las gracias a todas las personas que nos han ayudado a poner esto en pie, al equipo liderado por Monta\u00f1a Pulido y Susana S\u00e1nchez, que coordinaron la log\u00edstica, y a Burna que produjo la pieza, a la\u00a0organizaci\u00f3n de Luna de Octubre que pens\u00f3 en nosotros para el evento y confi\u00f3 en nuestro saber hacer, a pesar de la dificultad.<\/p>\n<p>Por supuesto, a las empresas e instituciones que nos donaron sus botellas (*), a la planta recicladora de Ferrovial Servicios, a Ecoembes y Valdeming\u00f3mez, que nos dirigieron convenientemente hacia donde estaban los tesoros, y a todos los amigos que nos fueron guardando el material de su propio consumo. Sin todos ellos, hubiera sido esta una misi\u00f3n imposible.<\/p>\n<p>Tambi\u00e9n a los amigos de Workout, que se metieron con nosotros en las basuras para recuperar las botella en buen estado y que luego nos ayudaron a llenar las fuentes.<\/p>\n<p>Las estupendas fotos son de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinezlola.com\/\">Lola Mart\u00ednez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PD. nos gusta trabajar con materiales reciclados, pero debemos admitir que no es f\u00e1cil ni siquiera sostenible en la mayor\u00eda de los casos, muchos intereses creados en torno a la basura que vamos descubriendo a medida que trabajamos en piezas de m\u00e1s envergadura. Auguramos un brillante futuro a cualquiera que se dedique a gestionar basura para instalaciones art\u00edsticas, que ya somos multitud los que andamos metidos en ella.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Tiempo de montaje e instalaci\u00f3n: 3 meses<br \/>\nDa\u00f1os ocasionados: 0.<br \/>\nPermanencia de la intervenci\u00f3n: 1 noche<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_2677.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_2677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_2677-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_2693.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"_MG_2693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MG_2693-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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We carried it out in Madrid invited by the\u00a0Luna de Octubre festival held the night of October 21th at the fountains of Cibeles, Neptuno and Apolo, Madrid\u2019s most emblematic fountains located over &#8230; <a title=\"Plastic Islands \/ Islas pl\u00e1sticas. Madrid 2017\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=4874\" aria-label=\"Leer m\u00e1s sobre Plastic Islands \/ Islas pl\u00e1sticas. 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