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The only balconies around me in Ireland were in the big hotels where I worked as a housekeeper, so I decided to use the festival to speak out against the poor working conditions in that context.

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I put out this open call, but no one submitted a story, although some people shared the post on their Instagram accounts.

The fact that no one was willing to share their stories impacted me deeply as I thought about how relevant it was to talk about balconies in the current context.

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Share with us your Memories of Balconies

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Looking for songs about balconies I've found this playlist: "Girl, get off the balcony!" and the first song was about suicidal thoughts in the balcony, they were asking for a person to not jump from it:

"Girl, get off the balcony

You're too young to play at dying

Tell me what's wrong

What has life done this time?

Come on, get down from there

Let me take you to a cafe

To talk, listen to you

And try to convince you"

Lyric Amianto, Supercombo

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Then I came across some famous balcony scenes, and this particular one from "West Side Story" got me thinking about the possible relationship between fire escapes and balconies in the urban life.

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What is it? What have you done this year during the course?

What was its context or have you created one for it?

What have been the iterations of activities, practices, tests/experiments?

What are your reflections about the project and its relation to publicness?

How have you evaluated the decisions taken/ or turn of events from the project in relation to the discussions that took place in the course?

What is the status of the project now?

What is yet to be realised/proposed/speculated in relation to the project? How will you be working to achieve that?

Are there questions the project left you with? How will you be working in order to understand them further?

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In some of the discussions about my project, people would ask what would be the balcony where I was living and what I could do as a practice action at that moment of my research. As I was in the middle of the Kerry Ring in Ireland and there were no balconies there, I staged a performance on the porch of the house I was living in. Since I was in the same level of the street, I started to ask myself about the power relations in the verticality and horizontality of the balcony.

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Ana Cristina Updated practical project proposal with time plan

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Scratching the Surface, Prenzlauer Berg windows and balconies, April 30th - May 2nd, 2021

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Today, balconies, which serve as new public spaces aimed at restoring both physical and social wellbeing (Grigoriadou, 2021), have also begun to play an important role in terms of sustainability and energy efficiency

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I also reflected on the role of the balcony in its political potential. In this particular text, the author discusses the banners and posters that people put up outside and the neighbors respond to them.

"Urban balconies and porches provide important platforms for public discourse and social change. They encourage residents to maintain a political discourse through the common practice of hanging political banners and slogans and flying political flags on them."

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March 24th (2020) in quarantine: the "white handkerchief" for memory, truth and justice

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I had the opportunity to share my research at a conference in Brazil, and it enable a space to reflect on the role of being a cultural producer that organizes a "performance art festival". and how this is a key word in my practice because it is what "transforms" any proposal I make in that context in art.

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Festivais de Arte Como Instrumento para Reimaginar a Produção Cultural na Cidade_Ana Cristina Pansera de Araujo

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The difference between make soap bubbles and make art with soap bubbles as a medium to express something else is that the action Bulbullia from Yarines Suarez and Frank Bready was part of the Balcony Festival.

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Festival en mi balcón on Instagram: "#tbt acción Burbullia de @frankbready y @yarinessuarez realizada en el verano de 2019 en el Festival en Mí Balcón, sobre la fragilidad del ser migrante.

Registro fotográfico @lucasarbr 
#burbujas #balcony #colectictiveart #performanceart #conceptualart #urbanphotography #urbanintervention #performanceartfeatival"

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21 likes, 0 comments - balcony.festival on February 23, 2020: "#tbt acción Burbullia de @frankbready y @yarinessuarez realizada en el verano de 2019 en el Festival en Mí Balcón, sobre la fragilidad del ser migrante.

Registro fotográfico @lucasarbr 
#burbujas #balcony #colectictiveart #performanceart #conceptualart #urbanphotography #urbanintervention #performanceartfeatival". 

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What are your reflections about the project and its relation to publicness?

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The Shift in the Balcony Project and its Publicness

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I had a meeting with Laura Malacart from thebalconyprojectceglie and it was interesting to hear how she thinks the balcony in her project in a real dimension, as a part of the house from where she is capable to develop a relationship with the neighbors and the virtual dimension, the possibility of building communities that do not need to respect the borders.

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I discovered that in Netherlands there is a Balkon Festival happening since 2017, the same year as my project. I asked them if I could be a volunteer in the next edition, and I am waiting for their response

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Vooruitblik in de Wesselerbrink Op zaterdag 2 juli 2022 werd de nieuwe festivalwijk gepresenteerd: de Wesselerbrink. Een wijk vol balkons, verhalen en culturen. Die verhalen vormen de inspiratie van het festival. Het werd een super gezellige middag met optredens op balkons van de Lintveldebrink flats en een info & kennismakingsmarkt. Want wij (organisatoren Diet en… Lees verder Home

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I launched a catalogue from an exhibition that I organized in 2021, and now I am organizing new editions of the exhibition to make circulate the artists work.

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We exhibited the catalogue at Peras de Olmo Ars Continua, a performance art gallery in Buenos Aires.

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Clases de artes, Coaching creativo y Copywriting para artistas on Instagram: "🌟 El arte existe, porque existimos los artistas...

Y nuestra necesidad de expresar un proceso, una inquietud, un problema, una forma de ver la vida.

Así es está muestra, organizada por @anita.araujo.poem, creadora y gestora de @balcony.festival.

En la necesidad de tener una ventana para proyectar estás ideas, Anita proyectó durante mucho tiempo en los balcones de Buenos Aires.

🔥 Hoy, hago honor al replicar está muestra cuando han finalizado de crear el catálogo de la muestra

🌱 SOMOS NATURALEZA

❤️ Una muestra que reúne voces de artistas de distintas partes del mundo y del que tengo orgullo de ser parte. 

Venite este sábado a la vereda de Peras de Olmo en Palermo y mirá la muestra.

Trae tu bebida y algo para picar mientras vemos, charlamos y disfrutamos de esta expo al aire libre 🤓

Te espero 😎

#muestradearte #somosnaturaleza #proyeccionartistica #curaduriadearte #artevida #artistasbrasileiros #artistasargentinos #artistasvenezolanos #artistasvisuales"

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40 likes, 10 comments - frankbready on December 10, 2024: "🌟 El arte existe, porque existimos los artistas...

Y nuestra necesidad de expresar un proceso, una inquietud, un problema, una forma de ver la vida.

Así es está muestra, organizada por @anita.araujo.poem, creadora y gestora de @balcony.festival.

En la necesidad de tener una ventana para proyectar estás ideas, Anita proyectó durante mucho tiempo en los balcones de Buenos Aires.

🔥 Hoy, hago honor al replicar está muestra cuando han finalizado de crear el catálogo de la muestra

🌱 SOMOS NATURALEZA

❤️ Una muestra que reúne voces de artistas de distintas partes del mundo y del que tengo orgullo de ser parte. 

Venite este sábado a la vereda de Peras de Olmo en Palermo y mirá la muestra.

Trae tu bebida y algo para picar mientras vemos, charlamos y disfrutamos de esta expo al aire libre 🤓

Te espero 😎

#muestradearte #somosnaturaleza #proyeccionartistica #curaduriadearte #artevida #artistasbrasileiros #artistasargentinos #artistasvenezolanos #artistasvisuales". 

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Lou and I, are planning a curatorial project with the artists from the catalogue to participate in the open call from the hdkvaland galleries. The next step is trying to answer the questions from the image.

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During the artistic residency I participated in in Biella, I presented my project to fellow artists and then, talking to the residency mentor, I understood that my main subject was not the balcony but rather artistic production in adverse environments: how to continue making art when everything seems inappropriate or how to keep making art inside the darkness?

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I decided to propose a project to making in Brazil using funds of the Rouanet Law (in the article you can read more about this law)

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Democratic Aspects of the Culture Incentive Law and its relation to the promotion of Cultural Pluralism

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Research Objective: To examine whether the Culture Incentive Law (LIC) contributes to the democratization of access and diffusion of different cultural manif…

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Projeções e encontros online Festival en Mi Balcón

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Mostra Aberta de Performances - Primavera em Mí Balcón Parte I