¡BEBEREMOS EL VINO NUEVO, JUNTOS!
LET US DRINK THE NEW WINE, TOGETHER!
An artistic experiment in border crossing at a time of extraordinary border control
Un experimento artístico en el cruce de fronteras en un momento de extraordinario control de fronteras
Post Project
¡BEBEREMOS EL VINO NUEVO, JUNTOS!
LET US DRINK THE NEW WINE, TOGETHER!
Each artist makes an intervention in the map
and sends it on, via digital / analogue means.
Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira - Map Plan
Valeria Conte Mac Donell (Argentina)
On the Pores of the World - Conquest.
11 July 2020
https://www.valiconte.com/single-post/2020/07/10/Sobre-los-poros-del-mundo-Conquista
Alys sends an envelope to Máximo in Chile, from her neighbourhood post box, to gently test the borders and movement across them, April 10 2020. This letter should take between 3-6 working days to arrive. It arrived in Santiago on September 6 - taking very nearly 5 months to arrive.
20 April 2020
Barrio Yungay Santiago, Chile - Beach Haven, Auckland, NZ
Analogue +Digital Map Intervention from Paul Hughes, Nottingham, UK, 23 May 2020
Analogue+Digital Map Intervention from Linda Knight, Melbourne, Australia, 24 May 2020
Claudio Corea - Chile - La Tragedia de los Communes. 10 June 2020.
Thailand, 11 june
Dusseldorf/ 28 May 2020
Claudio Corea - Chile - La Tragedia de los Communes. 10 June 2020.
Project 2 : A Gift Economy/a
circulatory system
A series of envelopes each travel to five different countries in the world (we estimate over 20 in total, depending on how many envelopes are lost in transit), with blank artist-paper inside. Artists are invited to keep anything they want to from the envelope, and to contribute any kind of mapping/ writing/ drawing/ notation/ on the paper. They photograph their contribution and send the digital image to the Mapeo de Bordes Porosos project before sending it on.
Envelopes created for the Mapeo de Bordes project by watercolour artist by Jeffrey Holdaway
an artistic experiment in boundary crossing at a time of extraordinary border-control
un experimento artístico en el cruce de fronteras en un momenton de extraordinario control de fronteras
Dear ...........,
We hope this letter finds you safe and well.
As part of the Mapping Porous Borders Post Project, we are inviting friends who we know are interested in art, maps, and making things to participate in our project.
We explore the poetics of moving with, across distance / forms of being together, despite conditions of separation and isolation/ paradoxes of protection and control / in Chile to wear a handkerchief over your mouth was made illegal in an attempt to prevent outbreaks of social resistance after October 2019 but now pańuelas are needed to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19 / we are mapping such paradoxes/ we are experimenting with moving with, when our borders are literally closed / we are measuring momentum pathways of toxicity and hope/ and we are inviting you to join us
This project involves sending a series of envelopes through the hands of five artists per envelope (25 in total), across the world, starting in NZ and ending in Chile. The envelope wants to keep us in touch, sharing physical contact through our shared practices of making things, and testing/ crossing borders in this time of pandemic.
Here are the steps of participation:
1. The envelope will arrive. Place it in a calm part of your house. Wash your hands thoroughly for 20 seconds. Rest the envelope for two days, and photograph it resting in place.
2. After two days or so, open the envelope and explore its contents.
3. You are invited to take one of the blank pieces of paper and write/draw/ scribble/ diagram/ map etc a response to your particular world right now. You'll find some ideas for this on the inside flap of the envelope, but really, do whatever you want.
4. If you find something you like in the envelope you are welcome to keep it.
5. Photograph your contribution.
6. Alys and Máximo will send you the address of the next artist to send the envelope to, by email or message. For reimbursment for postage costs email Alys and she'll send funds by PayPal.
7. If possible, please make a short video of the moment when the envelope is released back into the responsibility of the postal service. Send these 3 digital documents (envelope resting, your contribution, video of envelope being posted) to maximo.corvalan@gmail.com and a.longley@auckland.ac.nz - or by social media or what's app if that's easier. You will be able to follow the journey of the envelope on https://alyslongley.wixsite.com/mapeodebordesporosos.
We send you our very best wishes, our best care and our gratitude for working with us,
Alys & Máx.
Alys Longley and Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira
Milia Khoury
South Africa
Corey Douglas Smith
Chicago
Ingrid Amaro
France
