Project created in Alicante The seven political allegories of the Pilbararelated to Grandeza Studio, 18th Venice Architecture BiennaleOrganized between 20 May and 26 November 2023 with the slogan City of Canals. Laboratory of the Future (laboratory of the future), curated by architect Lesley Lokoko. mentioning this work, climate emergencyreceived support for its production. Valencia Community Museums Consortium It was held in Las Cigarreras cultural center with the Cultura Resident program.
Director of the Consortium of Museums, José Luis PerezPontattended the launch ceremony. Pilbara Interregnum: Seven Political Allegories Accompanies the Grandeza Studio team led by Amaia Sanchez Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol And Gonzalo Valiente Oriolpart of the artistic residency program Inhabited Culture.
Artistic-architectural research project of the Grandeza Studio team Started in Australia in 2021 In the implementation phase, it received financial and logistical support from the Museums Consortium. In addition, AC/E has received support from the University of Alicante, Sydney University of Technology, Andrés Bello University (on Creative Campus through the Remote Housings programme) and the University of Sydney.
“Thank you to the whole team” consortium And cigarettes For providing us with the necessary tools to meet the final production phase of this project. Having funding mechanisms for culture and the arts is essential for democracy, sectors that are otherwise subject to animalistic levels of instability and exploitation. Cultura Resident program, In this sense, required to provide the required level of development for this project. “To achieve the quality standards required by an event that features the Venice Architecture Biennale,” they say from Grandeza Studio.
José Luis Pérez Pont, in the selection of the project at the Venice Architecture Biennale, “Another example of the relevance and quality of the proposals that are part of our cultural programming, and encourages us to continue to support creation through our artistic residences”. Director of the Museum Consortium, the work of this Madrid architecture studio “talks about the climate emergency and other issues of economics and geopolitics, and gives us a vision from the local to the global that we can see reflected in the myriad situations that concern the human species.”
about work
Pilbara very big Lowland and one of the driest places in Western Australia, remote and the planet uninhabited. Since the first colonial attacks 160 years ago, the region has battlefield mining specialist searching for rich mineral deposits. Exiles, eruptions, and exploitation have transformed the surface, its ecosystems, and its people. Although Australia’s economic engineThe region suffers from notable socioeconomic underdevelopment, high rates of alcoholism, violence and racial exclusion.
Today, established giant miners (iron, gas and oil) They meet a new wave of investors searching for newly discovered deposits of lithium and other rare minerals. In addition, excessive solar radiation, strong winds and privileged access to the Indian Ocean make the Pilbara key geopolitical epicenters for the global energy transition.
Rejecting the normalization of past and present violence and challenging the perception that its continuation in the future is inevitable, Pilbara Interregnum: Seven Political Allegories addresses the opportunity presented by the energy paradigm shift to put into crisis the exploitative, colonial and capitalist mythologies that cause the climate to collapse. Combining theory-fiction and speculative fabrication, the project is articulated around seven unresolved land disputes to be claimed.
Collaboration was made in the project. Caitlin Condon, Laura Domínguez Valdivieso, James Feng, Jordi Guijarro Contreras and Raquel Vázquez Romero. His proposal for the exhibition consists of: regional and natural model of the affected area seven allegorical projects political and architectural imagination. The regional model is accompanied by an audio-visual accompaniment in three channels that uses the same model as a narrative and landscape tool to present the seven wars in the form of political allegories.