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| Unfolding under the gently coordinating hand of Perfoming Pictures of Sweden, the Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures was a project in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies, bringing together Europeans and Mexicans in participatory workshops and multisensory exhibitions. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for **Fiesta del EITC -- The Homecoming**, where we celebrated the project's closure. Designed and co-ordinated by Christina Stadlbauer, Loes Jacobs, Bart Vandeput, Pacome Beru and others, the event was an opportunity for dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest two years of intercontinental travels, co-creations and discussions that emerged from the project. | Unfolding under the gently coordinating hand of Perfoming Pictures of Sweden, the Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures was a project in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies, bringing together Europeans and Mexicans in participatory workshops and multisensory exhibitions. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for **Fiesta del EITC -- The Homecoming**, where we celebrated the project's closure. Designed and co-ordinated by Christina Stadlbauer, Loes Jacobs, Bart Vandeput, Pacome Beru and others, the event was an opportunity for dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest two years of intercontinental travels, co-creations and discussions that emerged from the project. |
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| nadine and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting. We saw old friends like Dougald Hine, Geska and Robert Brecevic, and met some of the project partners for the first time. Daniela Porras and Luis Conseco, together with their child Dante, spent a month at FoAM working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the EITC exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand painted beer coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about the meeting between Belgium and Oaxaca. Aside from the exhibition that displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the gallery event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald Hine's movie //Memories of Development,// a long conversation with Gustavo Esteva. With teary eyes our Mexican residents made us promise that we will come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home. | nadine and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting. We saw old friends like Dougald Hine, Geska and Robert Brecevic, and met some of the project partners for the first time. Daniela Porras and Luis Conseco, together with their child Dante, spent a month at FoAM working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the EITC exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand-painted beer coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about the meeting between Belgium and Oaxaca. Aside from the exhibition, which displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the gallery event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald Hine's movie //Memories of Development,// a long conversation with Gustavo Esteva. With teary eyes our Mexican residents made us promise that we will come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home. |
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| [[http://fo.am/eitc-wrapup/|Fiesta del EITC]]\\ | [[http://fo.am/eitc-wrapup/|Fiesta del EITC]]\\ |
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