Esto no es un Hotel
Artistic Project developed during the residency at LUGAR A DUDAS.
Developed by Paula Massarutti and Alexandra McCormick
This work emerged when the artists questioned the place they would inhabit during their stay, in an old house in the San Antonio neighborhood. After several days, they decided to enunciate their space as: "This is not a hotel."
Subsequently, they fabricated and placed a styrofoam sign with that phrase on the facade of the house, and from that moment, they began to receive visits and comments from the neighborhood's residents: "If this is not a hotel, then what is it?"
In the following weeks, they decided to open the house to the street and proposed to the neighbors to think about the definition of their own homes. After several discussions, they collaborated with some of them to come up with definitions for their houses and constructed new signs that they installed on the facades. In this way, they established a new relationship between private and public space in that old neighborhood of Cali.
Developed by Paula Massarutti and Alexandra McCormick
This work emerged when the artists questioned the place they would inhabit during their stay, in an old house in the San Antonio neighborhood. After several days, they decided to enunciate their space as: "This is not a hotel."
Subsequently, they fabricated and placed a styrofoam sign with that phrase on the facade of the house, and from that moment, they began to receive visits and comments from the neighborhood's residents: "If this is not a hotel, then what is it?"
In the following weeks, they decided to open the house to the street and proposed to the neighbors to think about the definition of their own homes. After several discussions, they collaborated with some of them to come up with definitions for their houses and constructed new signs that they installed on the facades. In this way, they established a new relationship between private and public space in that old neighborhood of Cali.
Este trabajo surgió cuando las artistas se preguntaron acerca del lugar que habitarían durante su estadía, en una vieja casona en el barrio de San Antonio. Después de varios días resolvieron enunciar su espacio como: ¨Esto no es un hotel¨
Luego fabricaron y colocaron un letrero de icopor en la fachada de la casa con esa frase, a partir de ese momento comenzaron a recibir visitas y comentarios de los vecinos del barrio: – y si esto no es un hotel, entonces ¿qué es?
En las semanas sucesivas decidieron abrir la casa a la calle y proponer a los vecinos: pensar acerca de la definición de sus propios hogares. Después de varias charlas, con algunos de ellos idearon en colaboración definiciones para sus casas, y construyeron nuevos letreros que instalaron en las fachadas. De esta manera establecieron una nueva relación entre el espacio privado y público en ese antiguo barrio de Cali.
Luego fabricaron y colocaron un letrero de icopor en la fachada de la casa con esa frase, a partir de ese momento comenzaron a recibir visitas y comentarios de los vecinos del barrio: – y si esto no es un hotel, entonces ¿qué es?
En las semanas sucesivas decidieron abrir la casa a la calle y proponer a los vecinos: pensar acerca de la definición de sus propios hogares. Después de varias charlas, con algunos de ellos idearon en colaboración definiciones para sus casas, y construyeron nuevos letreros que instalaron en las fachadas. De esta manera establecieron una nueva relación entre el espacio privado y público en ese antiguo barrio de Cali.
Lugar a Dudas. Cali.Colombia.
2012
