Plaza Casa Mario

CasaMario is an autonomous and collective management project based in two properties in the Ciudad Vieja neighborhood of Montevideo. Since its inception in 2014, it has aimed to develop and reflect around artistic and cultural practices. It has developed curatories and collective production instances on the idea of "home" and "place" and has promoted the extra-disciplinary use of its spaces, convening neighbors and different organizations to integrate. After five years of experience, CasaMario will make its first residence "outside" and will be in the space of the Subte Exhibition Center. Between april and July (2019), an exhibition with a variable assembly will be displayed (space will be modified as activities and proposals require); and will also display the file that realizes its path. Two programmes are also integrated: "Public Program", with national and international guests who offered conferences, talks, workshops and actions and the "Pedagogical Program", which represents a collective space for learning and mediation of the events that will took place during the exhibition. The book addresses "Programa Público" a set of reflections and critical expansions on the public activities scheduled in the time frame of the exhibition. It includes the lectures of Javier Rodrigo (Spain), texts by Víctor Albarracín (Colombia), the result of Ricardo Basbaum's workshop (Brazil), a critical review of the collective map carried out together with Iconoclasistas (Argentina), an introductory text to the workshop/clinic "Peripheral Focus", by Mauricio Dias (Brazil) and Walter Riedweg (Chile), a curatorial program of performance and activation of the exhibition by Lourdes Silva and Matías Ygielka (Uruguay) and an introduction to the workshop "Incorporaciones", by Silvio Lang and Rodolfo Opazo (Argentina), on the work Diarios del Odio by Roberto Jacoby (Argentina) and Syd Krochmalny (Argentina), among others. CasaMario is an autonomous and collective management project based in two properties in the Ciudad Vieja neighborhood of Montevideo. Since its inception in 2014, it has aimed to develop and reflect around artistic and cultural practices. It has developed curatories and collective production instances on the idea of "home" and "place" and has promoted the extra-disciplinary use of its spaces, convening neighbors and different organizations to integrate. After five years of experience, CasaMario will make its first residence "outside" and will be in the space of the Subte Exhibition Center. Between april and July (2019), an exhibition with a variable assembly will be displayed (space will be modified as activities and proposals require); and will also display the file that realizes its path. Two programmes are also integrated: "Public Program", with national and international guests who offered conferences, talks, workshops and actions and the "Pedagogical Program", which represents a collective space for learning and mediation of the events that will took place during the exhibition. The book addresses "Programa Público" a set of reflections and critical expansions on the public activities scheduled in the time frame of the exhibition. It includes the lectures of Javier Rodrigo (Spain), texts by Víctor Albarracín (Colombia), the result of Ricardo Basbaum's workshop (Brazil), a critical review of the collective map carried out together with Iconoclasistas (Argentina), an introductory text to the workshop/clinic "Peripheral Focus", by Mauricio Dias (Brazil) and Walter Riedweg (Chile), a curatorial program of performance and activation of the exhibition by Lourdes Silva and Matías Ygielka (Uruguay) and an introduction to the workshop "Incorporaciones", by Silvio Lang and Rodolfo Opazo (Argentina), on the work Diarios del Odio by Roberto Jacoby (Argentina) and Syd Krochmalny (Argentina), among others.