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BUENOS AIRES l ARGENTINA

Project by Andreas Trobollowitsch (Austria), 2016.

cheLA is a center of contemporary culture

• pen to the community that promotes research,

experimentation and artistic production.

Opened in 2003, cheLA is an initiative of the exACTa Foundation (Experiences in Art and Technology of Argentina) and the Digital Culture Program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). cheLA is a center of contemporary culture open to the community that promotes research and artistic

• production. The cultural project aims to create a

collaborative environment that promotes dialogue between actors of different practices and allows the development of experimental projects. In its more than 15 years of activity, projects of contemporary art, music, theater, architecture, design, among others, were developed in collaboration with national and international institutions. Three main conceptual axes cross the different projects and practices that are developed in cheLA: Culture, Technology and Community. Each project is selected and sustained by its potential to be multidisciplinary, open to dialogue and interaction with other projects and with different sectors of society, both local and regional.

EXPERIMENTAL LATIN AMERICAN HYPERMEDIATIC CENTER

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.

EL EDIFICIO

THE HOUSE

2 housing areas 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

LABORATORY OF BODY INTERACTIVITY

OpenPTrack 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.

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 PROGRAMS

RESIDENCY STUDIOS

RESIDENCY STUDIOS

RESIDENCY STUDIOS

Open studios Oct-2018

RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

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

CHELA MODULES 2003 – 2019

Pedalúdico experimental programs

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

SUPPORTED ORGANIZATIONS

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

• euvre 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

• f 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.

PROJECTS

Bicicletas blancas

Artist: Fabián Wagmister

Bicicletas Blancas a hybrid work with components of performance, intervention and art computer that defuncionaliza and re-means the movement from the transformative potential of the bicycle and the interpretative possibilities of digital technology. Inspired by the White Bicycle Plan of the anarchist group Provo (1965), the tango La Bicicleta Blanca by Piazzola and Ferrer (1970) and the Ghost Bicycles that indicate the death

• f cyclists in cities around the world (2003 ...), the pedaling

will travel Route 5 from Parque Patricio (CABA) to Santa Rosa, La Pampa establishing dialogues and performative situations throughout his situationist drift. The project seeks to generate dialogue and reflection in relation to the right of everyone to a free, sustainable and safe mobility. It also seeks to raise awareness about the insecurity experienced by cyclists on our routes and the need for a profound change in our road logic.

video press article

EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

Tautwood

Design and construction of an architectural structure in 1: 1 scale, which uses the elastic properties of wood as a fundamental principle of its

• peration.

Video

cheLA team: Francesco Milano Karen Antorveza 2017

EXHIBITIONS

“Satellite” Sound & Image Degree exhibition UBA University

Annual show where students from levels I, II and III of Audiovisual Design exhibit their work done during the course. 2003–2017 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Neighbour memory / Subway station installation

An interactive installation in station "Parque Patricios" that proposes the use of a map to explore the streets and history of the neighborhood. The project was created by cheLA team in a collaborative work with the local community. 2012 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

SOUND ART / CONCERTS

reConvert

reConvert is based on a constructive criticism about aesthetics and the use

• f percussion, where musical discourse

is analyzed and adapted to our creative needs. GUEST ARTISTS: Roberto Maqueda & Victor Barceló Gonzalo Díaz Yerro Luciano Azzigotti Michael Maierhof Jorge Sánchez-Chiong

video

2014

SOUND ART / CONCERTS

MEI

Since 2002 MEI - music for flutes, formed by Juliana Moreno and Patricia García, has generated a space for the production of unpublished music as a result of a process of compilation, premiere and diffusion of contemporary music for flutes, with special interest in the work of Argentine and Latin American composers. MEI held concerts and master classes in cities of the Argentine Republic and in Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia and the United States. GUEST ARTISTS: Patricia García – Juliana Moreno 2016 WITH THE SUPPORT OF

SOUND ART / CONCERTS

Andreas Trobollowitsch

He is a composer, an interpreter based in Vienna and a sound artist and

• installations. He studied musicology

and jazz in Vienna and Paris. In his works, he uses music mainly preparing instruments, modified fans, tapes and field recordings. Nowadays his work focuses on sound, performances, sound installations, conceptual compositions and drawing installations. 2016 WITH THE SUPPORT OF

TALK

Richard Parry

Curator Richard Parry is the director of Glasgow International, Scotland's renowned contemporary art festival. Combining the characteristics of a biennial with an open application model for artists and curators based in the city, Glasgow International is a key event in the European cultural calendar. In this talk, Parry will discuss the artistic scene

• f the Scottish capital and the particular

model of the festival, which seeks to generate new discourses between local and international artists while extending a unique artistic experience throughout the city within a variety of non-traditional spaces. 2019 With the support of

EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

Bio Manufacturing Workshop

Workshop with the objective of exploring and promoting the creation and use of materials formed from the growth of living organisms. Guest professors:

• Lic. Leonardo Majul
• Dra. Julieta Maller

D.I. Heidi Jalkh 2019

EXHIBITIONS

Movil

Móvil is an independent and non-commercial organization supported and hosted by cheLA. The organization is dedicated to the production and exhibition of contemporary art with special interest in experimentation and bringing emerging practice to diverse audiences. Exhibitions 2014 – present: Mariana Ferrari Julián D’Angiolillo Benjamín Felice Elena Dahn Manuel Molina Joaquín Aras Santiago De Paoli Nicolás Sarmiento Mercedes Azpilicueta Tomás Maglione Joaquín Boz Irina Kirchuk http://www.movil.org.ar/exhibiciones/ Irina Kirchuk exhibition on Movil, 2014

COMMUNITY

Club de Reparadores

The Repairers Club is a non-profit

• rganization supported and hosted by
• cheLA. The project seeks to promote

reparation as a strategy for responsible and practical consumption for

• sustainability. Repairing is extending

the useful life of objects and preventing them from becoming waste, and in this sense, it is a way to combat the culture

• f disposables and programmed
• bsolescence, putting value on

traditional and modern knowledge of reparation. 2016 — present hhttp://reparadores.club/

Since its inception with the support of UCLA, cheLA has carried out collaborative projects and the support of various national and international institutions and projects.

PARTNERSHIPS

address fb ig web Iguazú 451, Buenos Aires, Argentina @cheLA.exACTA @chela.exacta www.chela.org.ar cheLA is an initiative of the exACTa Foundation (Experiences in Arts and Technologies of Argentina) and the Digital Cultures Program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).