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IDENSITAT07 Documentary Projects
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In this section we find a series of theoretical works and specific experiences developed in other contexts. The aim is to widen the scope of ideas and proposals used to intervene in public space, through the regard of art and cultural action. IDENSITAT will diffuse the body of works, and according to the different strategies that each one may require; adapting itself to the different actions within the context of the IDENSITAT 07.
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HOTEL YEOVILLE. Johannesburg

Terry Kurgan. Artist, direct the project and its process
Jean Pierre Misago . Research assistant in Wits Forced Migration Studies Programme | George Lebone. Community worker, active member of the Yeoville Community Forum | John Spiropoulos. urban planner | Belinda Blignault. Multimedia artist

The project will examine survival strategies through focusing on the representation of the everyday lived experience of dwelling in Yeoville. It is an interesting story as Yeoville is a place of recent African immigrants, fortune hunters, exiles and refugees. It is a place of itinerants and transients, of fly by nights and ordinary people, of recent residents and old stalwarts. It is said to be a space of dislocation, insecurity, uncertainty, transience, neglect, crime, contest, exploitation and the transgression of boundaries. And, amongst old Yeoville residents, it is a space of romance, nostalgia and memories of another city altogether.
Yeoville is a manifestation of the city of Johannesburg making its new identity, finding itself anew, and setting down fresh roots. The project aims, through a process of social engagement and public participation, to allow people to tell their story. And then, through a series of products and a range of media, to make this experience visible both to themselves and to others.

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Disappeared In America
Naeem Mohaiemen + Visible Collective. Filmmaker, media artist and founder of Visible Collective. Work in New York and Dhaka.

The proposal is to document the project Disappeared In America , a series of art space interventions by Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen that travelled across the United States from 2004-2006. Through a series of films, installations and lectures, the project looked at hyphenated identities, concepts of “loyalty” and post-9/11 security panic. The majority of people detained in the US during recent paranoia times are from the invisible underclass - shadow citizens who drive taxis, deliver food, clean tables, and sell fruit, coffee, and newspapers. The only time we “see” them is when we glance at the license in the taxi partition, or the vendor ID card. When detained, they cease to exist in the consciousness. This impulse to create an insider-outsider dynamic with “loyalty” overtones has a long pedigree: WWI incarceration of German-Americans; 1919 detention of immigrants in Anarchist bomb scare; WWII internment of Japanese-Americans; execution of the Rosenbergs; HUAC “red scare”; infi ltration of Deacons For Defense and Black Panthers; and the rise of the Minutemen.
The proposal for Idensitat07 is to re-present some of the key portions of this project.

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Boundaries
Dara McGrath. Cork City, Irlanda.

The project BOUNDARIES is a site-specific installation completed for some time. Between 1999-2002 she undertook a photographic documentation of the European Union - as it then existed - and its mutual border crossings and national boundaries. These had been relaxed in 1994 under the Schengen Agreement. The images highlight these national boundaries and evoke the idea of territory and place. In 2005 these photographs were shown as a city-wide (400 sites!) billboard installation in Cork City during its tenure as European City of Culture. The multiple series of photographs was located at strategic junctions and streets to highlight the points of intersection between different areas of the city, e.g. Middle and working class communities with the city. The project constitutes a reflection on the construction of the local identity within the wider sphere.
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Pripublikarrak

Pripublikarrak is a group from Bilbao formed in May 2005. Its members are Aiora Kintana Goiriena, Olaia Miranda Berasategi, Saioa Olmo Alonso, María Mur Dean, and Oihane Ruiz Menéndez; three artists, a sociologist and an architect.
They make artistic proposals which produce reflections on different matters connected to gender and identity. Besides, they extend this thinking to society using participative formats that generate interaction with diverse social agents.
There is the possibility of giving diffusion to the works produced in order to expand the reflection and share opinions in other contexts. Pripublikarrak will contact an association which works on gender issues in Calaf, Manresa or Mataró.

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60insurgent Space, Tirana ( Albany )
Curator :Stefano Romano
Number of artists and curators : 60

Tirana is the highest representation of Albany's opening to the western World after the fall of the communist regime in 1991. In the city it is possible to observe and feel the haste for acquiring the European and North-American standards of life. As a result of this, we get a society that reproduces models without having time to assimilate them, while the old politicians and institutions still are the basis of the Albanian society.
1.60insurgent Space is born out of the idea of art as creation and diffusion of cooperative practices having a constant interaction with the space where they have been conceived.
The insurgent space moves within the city. Questions everything, including itself, and appears as an alternative to the institutions, as an investigation/intervention that consumes itself and disappears; as an investigation/intervention that originates other ones, other insurgent spaces. The insurgent space is a space for citizenship, lacking permanence, thus is why it has the characteristic of being occasional.
Evaluation and diffusion
1.60insurgent space ended its programme of artistic interventions in Tirana last September. Now, 1.60insurgent space is planning a space for evaluating its own activity, a period of research in which the results and the conclusions of the first period will be presented and shared with different agents in a plurality of places in Europe.

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WHAT IF: projects Ltd. London
What if develop strategies at an urban scale and start to test them through small scale interventions. All of these projects are temporary based in the public realm and come to life through the participation of the public. The What if team is a facilitator of change and aims to kick start new developments that are allowed to grow and become sustainable after the team has left.
They are researching VOID spaces and the opportunities these spaces of uncertainty could offer to a neighbourhood, a city and beyond. They take the bottom-up approach to urban planning and instigate SMALL CHANGES that have the potential to generate beyond.
Their documentation would focus on an ongoing project called SIT IN that we realized in Liverpool in August 2006. SIT IN is based in Toxteth, an area suffering from high unemployment, low levels of education and large scale housing demolition. The What if team developed a strategy for found void spaces that was dependent upon the active participation and stewardship of the local population.

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My Famous People
Atsuko Arai

The project “My Famous People” was developed in “Echigo-Tumari Art Triennial 2006” in Niigata, Japan.
This project is about revealing personal histories and memories of the inhabitants of the quarter in Tokamachi (Niigata, Japón), by means of a workshop holding the same name, “My Famous People ”, made with the children of that place. During the workshop children looked for their heroes or preferred characters. A video was filmed in which children interviewed their famous characters. Different visibility formats were used to incorporate the material generated in the workshops.