2016 | Performance

Eat Drink Spill Hope is a research project that examines the impacts of climate change on the production, distribution and consumption of food. The research is materialised in performance/dinners events where the public is invited to participate actively, tasting a variety of flavours, sensations and events distilled from the causes and consequences of the climate crisis.

The performance/dinners are composed of a plurality of ingredients, both edible and non-edible (performative, scenographic and conceptual ingredients). The dishes served only include ingredients that have been chosen for their regenerative and nutritional properties. Each crop that is introduced has the capacity to restore the soil, capture large amounts of carbon or has a high nutritional value, being able to replace other foods that negatively impact the planet.

This project started in 2016 thanks to the invitation of Staff_Room and De Balie.

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2015

For the last 20 years, the UN climate summits have not delivered any significant solution that effectively prevents catastrophic climate change. On the contrary, CO2 emissions have increased, and climate inequality, ecosystem depletion and unsustainable consumption have only worsened.
The science behind climate change has been well established by the IPCC reports, but governments are not acting upon it. They are failing us.
To highlight this fact, I printed the latest IPCC’s report text on rolls of toilet paper. During the Climate Change Conference in Paris COP21, we smuggled hundreds of rolls into the conference center and flooded the toilets with them. Many activists, the youth delegation, TierraActiva and other climate justice groups took the risk and participated in the action. The message spread through different networks: At #COP21 toilet paper emblazoned with IPCC report appears in toilets. Delegates told to #GiveaShit and stop wiping their ass with the science.
In The Netherlands, toilet paper rolls were given as a present to all the members of the senate that voted against the new energy law, which will delay the construction of wind energy parks. Through the website giveashit.nu, individuals can order toilet paper rolls and send them to their most uncooperative local politicians.

Project website www.giveashit.nu
Twitter @GiveAShitCOP
Photography Daniela Paes Leão www.dpl.nu

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2014

Futuro Caliente is an ongoing project that responds to the climate change crisis, initiated in 2014 by La Junta, an organization based in Lima founded by Teresa Borasino, Elisenda Estrems and Maricel Delgado.

During COP20 in Lima, Futuro Caliente took the form of an art festival that brought the climate debate into the public sphere. For four days, the public space was reclaimed and transformed into a space of dialogue and exchange among citizens, negotiators, activists, climate change specialists, entrepreneurs and artists. The main intervention, Public Forum, consisted of an open auditorium space entirely built with waste (paper, cardboard, plastic bags, and timber), that hosted a program of conversations and workshops.

For more information please visit:
 www.futurocaliente.com

This project has been realized with the generous support of Arts Collaboratory, IUCN - Commission on Ecosystem Management, and the Delegation of the European Union to Peru.

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2014 | Intervention in Pariacaca | Lima

Intervention at the foot of Pariacaca, a glacier located in the central Andes between the provinces of Lima and Junin. The Pariacaca glacier feeds Lima’s four major rivers and is the city’s most important source of water for agriculture, electricity generation and potable water. Peru has the largest concentration of tropical glaciers in the world and these are considered some of the most vulnerable regions under threat from global warming.
Chairs from the assembly of the Tanta peasants community in Yauyos region were placed to stage an empty auditorium. While the world leaders gather to negotiate in the capital’s convention center, the real melting planet remains unattended.
This project was part of Hawapi.org

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2012 | Intervention in public space

De Bijlmer Bloeit consisted of a flower kiosk and an intervention at the last original ‘honeycomb’ building in the Bijlmer, Kleiburg.
Bijlmer, a neighbourhood in Amsterdam Zuidoost was built in the 60’s as a model housing estate. Currently, Bijlmer is going through a large urban renewal. Many of the high-rise buildings laid out in a hexagonal grid (most known as the ‘honeycomb’ buildings) have been renovated or torn down. Kleiburg is the last original building that has not gone through renovation yet. The building is empty and completely decayed. Its renovation awaits in 2014.
From the flower kiosk, many neighbours participated by filling hundreds of flower boxes. Together, we hung them on the balconies of Kleiburg as a tribute to the idealistic plan to create the city of the future.

Commissioned by Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost.
Photography: vanwaardenphoto.com

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2012 | Intervention in Public Space

The traditional ‘quintas’ of Barrios Altos in Lima are housing typologies whose spatial organization is based around courtyards and alleys that function as extensions of public space within a private property.
A collaborative project by Fiona de Bell, Teresa Borasino and Sandra Nakamura that aimed to highlight the potential for self-organization of the ‘quintas’ of Barrios Altos. The artists worked with “Las Guerreras” (The Warriors), a group of 18 women who at the time of the intervention had received numerous threats of eviction by a real estate corporation.
The intervention consisted of a choreography of actions that took over the street: two long grills, each six meters long, were used to block road traffic, closing the street like barricades in intervals of twenty minutes. On them, “Las Guerreras” grilled skewers that were offered to the public. While the street remained closed, a group of people slowly carried objects from the inside of the ‘quinta’ and loaded them into a moving truck, along the rhythm of a marching band, as if a religious procession: an eviction rehearsal. At the same time, three scriptwriters gathered testimonies on their typing machines, recording the memories, fears and perceptions of neighbors and passers-by.

With the support of Mondriaan Foundation and the Dirección de Cultura de la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima.

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2012 | Intervention in Public Space

On Saturday 21 of January, 2012 the whole neighbourhood of the van der Pekbuurt in Amsterdam was invited to a dinner party on the street. The dinner was composed by several contributions by the neighbours and small local entrepreneurs (recipes, bbq, cooking skills, mobile coffee machine, furniture, cutlery, etc.)

I asked every guest to bring an object from their own home. With all these objects we transformed the street into a dining room.

“Aan tafel op straat” is a project that blurs the limits between private and public space.

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2011 | Intervention in public space

Public spaces in Lima are usually controlled through gates. These elements restrict the use of public spaces for the sake of exclusivity, order and security, and even beauty (when it comes to parks), finally ending up with a landscape of bars.

In ‘Gravitatory Intervention’, park visitors and passers-by tied thousands of helium balloons to the gate of Parque Universitario in Lima, in a poetical attempt to let the gate take off.

This project acts on elements that restrict the use and access to spaces whose function is to host the citizen, to be places of connection, identification, urban living and community expression.

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2011 | Intervention in public space

Video documenting the intervention
Camera and edition: Mariana Tschudi

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2010 | Intervention in public space

The idea of a boat trip as a daily activity is, in some ways, peculiar. In the past, boats were the only means of transportation across long distances. These journeys would last months and are associated with extended farewells and waving goodbye, long-term expeditions and world discoveries. This particular ferry however, goes back and forth several times a day, each trip taking about 5 minutes. It repeats the same cycle systematically, constantly departing and arriving. The journey becomes mechanical, overlooked and trivial.
‘Farewell’ is a project developed for the Houthavenveer, the ferry that connects the Tasmanstraat in Amsterdam West with the NDSM area in Amsterdam North. The project addresses the connection between a regular ferry trip with the broader history of boat travel.
On May 18, 2010, thirty-four people bade farewell to the ferry. Standing on the edge of the quay they waved goodbye to the people on board. This gesture was repeated every time the ferry departed during the morning rush hour. The people who arrived at the dock encountered the farewell committee unexpectedly. The project attempted to break the ferry passenger’s daily routine and transform a trivial activity into an unusual event.

This project has been realized with the generous support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Fonds BKVB.

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