BUENOS AIRES l ARGENTINA
Project by Andreas Trobollowitsch (Austria), 2016. cheLA is a center of contemporary culture open to the community that promotes research, experimentation and artistic production.
EXPERIMENTAL LATIN AMERICAN Opened in 2003, cheLA is an initiative of the exACTa In its more than 15 years of activity, projects of HYPERMEDIATIC CENTER Foundation (Experiences in Art and Technology of contemporary art, music, theater, architecture, design, Argentina) and the Digital Culture Program of the among others, were developed in collaboration with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). national and international institutions. cheLA is a center of contemporary culture open to the Three main conceptual axes cross the different community that promotes research and artistic projects and practices that are developed in cheLA: production. The cultural project aims to create a Culture, Technology and Community. Each project is collaborative environment that promotes dialogue selected and sustained by its potential to be between actors of different practices and allows the multidisciplinary, open to dialogue and interaction development of experimental projects. with other projects and with different sectors of society, both local and regional.
EL EDIFICIO cheLA is located in the traditional Parque Patricios neighborhood, 150 meters from the new Civic Center, in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a 5,000 m2 building, a former rationalist architecture factory, which is constantly restored and equipped thanks to the effort of the cheLA team and the help of public and private funds. The genesis of a space of these characteristics comes from observing the lack of places in Argentina for the development of medium and large-scale technological art, and of understanding its context: a neighborhood in the south of the City of Buenos Aires, an area that it has been historically relegated socially and culturally. It is in this sense that in the elaboration and curatorial approach prioritize projects that articulate artistic, technological and social interests. The building has audiovisual production spaces, studios, digital construction workshops, wood and screen printing workshops, auditorium, and two housing spaces for the development of residences.
2 housing areas THE HOUSE 7 single and double rooms Accommodation space for up to 10 residents
WORKSHOPS SPACES AND EQUIPMENT digital construction area 3d printers Laser cutter CNC router carpentry shop silkscreen workshop body interactivity laboratory workspaces and classes
WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS
OpenPTrack LABORATORY OF BODY INTERACTIVITY OpenPTrack is an open source project launched in 2013 to create a scalable and multi-camera solution for tracking people. It allows many people to be tracked in large areas in real time. It is designed for applications in education, arts and culture, as a starting point to explore group interaction with digital environments.
RESIDENCY PROGRAMS cheLA offers local and international creators the possibility of developing research and production projects focused on experimentation. Residency programs promote an environment of collaboration and experimentation where artists and researchers from different places, practices and contexts share a period of work and connection with the local art scene. The residence works as an articulator of the activity generated by the different modules in cheLA, allowing interactions between the various projects and new local and international links. The residents have housing, access to different work spaces, technical resources, and team advice. The activities of the residency programs include visits, talks, workshops and public presentations.
RESIDENCY STUDIOS
RESIDENCY STUDIOS
RESIDENCY STUDIOS
RESIDENCY PROGRAMS Open studios Oct-2018
CHELA MODULES 2003 – 2019 TaMaCo It is a space dedicated to research in design, art and architecture. It is equipped with design tools and manufacturing machines. Directors: Francesco Milano and Karen Antorveza Pedalúdico The bicycle as an instrument of expression and transformation Director: Fabián Wagmister conDiT Contemporary music and sound experimentation Director: Luciano Azzigotti LIC / Body Interactivity Laboratory Performance and technology research laboratory Director: Jeff Burke Residencies International residency program for artists and researchers Director: Pablo Caligaris Pedalúdico experimental programs
SUPPORTED ORGANIZATIONS Móvil Commission of contemporary art exhibitions for emerging artists Directors: Solana Molina Viamonte and Alejandra Aguado www.movil.org.ar Club de Reparadores Reparation as a strategy for responsible and practical consumption for sustainability Directors: Melina Scioli and Marina Pla www.reparadores.club A77 Experimental architecture and sustainability Directors: Lucas Gilardi y Gustavo Dieguez www.estudioa77.com La Ira de Dios Contemporary art residency programs Director: Carolina Magnin and Pablo Caligaris www.lairadedios.com.ar Movil exhibitions program
SELECTED ACTIVITIES 2003 – 2019
RESIDENCIES Body Interactivity Laboratory With the support of the program of grants for experiences of creation in residency of IBERESCENA, of cheLA and UCLA REMAP, the Body Interactivity Laboratory (LIC) was able to carry out its second residence. In this, it links artists, programmers and programmers from Argentina, Spain, Chile, Colombia, Canada and the United States to each other and to OpenPTrack (OPT), an open source tracing system developed by REMAP and Open Perception. 2019 With the support of
RESIDENCIES “Yellow house” Ignacio Unrrein Ignacio Unrrein developed the project “Yellow house” in a three-month residency program. The project concluded in a performatic public presentation. video artist website 2018
RESIDENCIES Anne Duk Hee Jordan SEPT-OCT 2018 http://www.dukhee.de 1978 Korea, works and lives in Berlin. Jordan studied at Universtiät der Künste Berlin. From 2009 to 2012 she was a participant at Institut für Raumexperimente /Institute for Spatial Experiments where she finished her master degree with professor Olafur Eliasson. Jordan experiments with and focuses mainly on phenomena of ecosystems: she uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and ecological issues. Her work incorporates food as a central component and motor of earthly life. Her oeuvre becomes a fictional and experimental universe that reveals itself bit by bit. In collaboration with:
RESIDENCIES Andrés Aizicovich APRIL 2017 video He was born in 1985 in Buenos Aires. He studied the Visual Arts Degree at I.U.N.A. (University Institute of Art) painting orientation in the chair of Carlos Bissolino and the Artists Program of the University Torcuato Di Tella 2012. He made individual and collective exhibitions in galleries and museums such as the Recoleta Cultural Center, Ruth Benzacar, Nora Fisch Gallery, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Immigrant Gallery, Galerie Papillon (Paris, France) Hidden Garden, Vasari Gallery, OSDE Foundation, Klemm Foundation, SESC Sorocaba, (San Pablo, Brazil), Museum of Modern Art of Cuenca (Ecuador), La Zona / The Drawing Center (New York, USA), Museum MUNTREF Hotel of the Immigrants and participated in the fairs of arteBA (Buenos Aires) Scope (Miami, USA) and ArtBo (Bogotá, Colombia). In 2017 he won the Braque prize for a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris. Andres Aizicovich project developed in cheLA won the Braque prize for a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris.
RESIDENCIES Felix Kiessling SEPT-OCT 2018 www.felixkiessling.net Born in1980 in Hamburg, Felix Kiessling works and lives in Berlin. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin). From 2009 to 2014 he was a participant at Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments) where he graduated as Meisterschüler (master degree) under professor Olafur Eliasson. His conceptual works have been shown in numerous national as well international galleries, museums and institutions; Hamburger Bahnhof, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and Reykjavik Art Museum, amongst others. Kiessling was participant of the Moscow Biennale for Young Arts 2016 and the Marrakech Biennale 2012. In collaboration with:
RESIDENCIES Stuart Fallon APRIL 2019 www.trg.ed.ac.uk Stuart Fallon is assistant curator at Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is in charge of artists’ projects and audience engagement. He studied art practice at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee and completed an MFA at the Edinburgh College of Art. Stuart was invited in collaboration with the Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires program to participate in a series of visits and the international talk program in Arteba Art Fair. In collaboration with: Stuart Fallon talk in Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires program.
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