Biography
The group emerged at our house in Villa Crespo from meetings where we used to compose scenes with models and puppets. The idea was to make a movie, but we never got to do it. We made a giant table, of eight meters where we placed the scenes. We try to do a story, a script, but neither it appeared. The artifact was for three days on the table and occupying the entire workshop, it was disarm only to be taken to an exhibition or to another workshop, this time to a theater. We created the "black cube" with machines and dolls, lights and hidden manipulators. We thought of a continuous work in time. Montages of sporadic moments. Only some months later we achieved a stable space: the garage of a provisional. We installed the enormous model. We generated our pole in the city, and, weeks later the visits began. From a few at a time, or in groups of five or six, people were coming to see the creature that began spreading through the rooms. A year later came a character called "the dany" who was responsible of bringing people to the house and spread the myth of the website. In some of these walks we saw the agents of contemporary art galleries and then the invitations to exhibit came. By then we already had our name -Provisional Standing- (Provisorio Permanente). We brought something new, compact, with limits. An old story from Buenos Aires and its author H. Oesterheld appeared. Behind a curtain we showed a snowy field in the dark where the "eternauta" stalked the "hands". The house continued to operate and a year later we returned to the Benzacar Gallery. In the basement of the basement we showed "Someone calls". We missed the darkness, the lights of the room destroyed our atmosphere, so we decided to work from oddness and estrangement. Someone calls the room to take you out of there, an orange phone sounds to take you to our area. Meanwhile in a corner of our basement our starry shelter falls. We had taken our pole and crashed it into the gallery so lucky that it killed a witch who visited. Our man inside the appearance is surprised with the enlightening in front of his eyes.
He gives no credence to what he sees. Inside, mystical, outside, a murder.
Vision of art
1. Choose a work that represents you, describe it in relation to its format and materiality, its relation with time and space, its style and theme; detail its production process.
"Visits to the Collector’s house"
Performance work developed around and inside a house in the neighborhood of Villa Crespo in the city of Buenos Aires. Visitors must reserve their places via e-mail to be quoted at night, at an exact time in a particular corner of the neighborhood. At the appointed hour, they are intercepted by someone who after charging a small sum of money tells them where they have to go from there. Inside the house a new character gives guidance and invites them to tour the different facilities.
From the beginning one of the biggest concerns of the group was to generate the appropriate context to appreciate our production. This way we found the format of "The House of Paternal" and the character of "the Dany". We gradually recognized the intrinsic value of the gesture of "attracting" viewers to where the work shines.
Technique: Urban Performance. The work combines video, music (edited and live), objects, text, dolls, machines, light and shadow play. Duration: 70 minutes.
Work presented weekly in performances for 8 viewers during 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
The work is presented as an urban myth, which is accessed only through someone who knows about it or "someone who was there". No advertising, just invitations in person. No one claimed authorship, it was not signed nor has a name and even at the end of the shows the actors were not presented. One of the poetic aspirations of the work is to be installed as a myth, that once completed the task, the story traversed by the experience may remain.
3. In reference to your work and your position in the national and international art fields, what tradition do you recognize yourself in? Who are your contemporary referents? What artists of previous generations are of interest to you?
In traditional animation and punk. David Lynch, Brothers Quay, Svankmajer, Calder's circus, Theo Jansen, Arthur Ganson, Artaud, Duchamp, Beuys, Kantor, Tarkovsky, Herzog, Olafur Eliason, Boltansky, Chapman Brothers, Christo, Sebastian Gordin, El periferico de objetos.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
Victor Grippo retrospective, Malba 2004.
