Marianela Casado(together: Ezequiel Adelmo Manasseri, Lucas Tibaldi, Maria Sol Depetris)

Situated Residencial Program | April 2018

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Residency programme (April 2018)

Ezequiel Manasseri, María Sol Depetris, Marianela Casado y Lucas Tibaldi (Argentina)

The work developed on the poltry yards is a collective and interdisciplinary reflection about inhabiting a space. It opens a line of dialogue that reveals the historic layers of the area and brings into question the concept of architectural value from new perspectives.

In the thirteenth century these poltry yards were the houses of the castle’s workers. They later became a place for animal husbandry. The poltry yards represent a connection between different cultures and periods of time, they stand as a neuralgic point where territory and habitable spaces meet.

The team started its investigation rearranging objects and abandoned elements.

They reconfigured them to highlight the structure of the space and its original uses.

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Parallel to their collective project, Ezequiel Manasseri, María Sol Depetris, Marianela Casado and Lucas Tibaldi develop their individual perspectives through different formats. Marianela has started an anthropological research that rises questions about the arabic origins of Blanca; Ezequiel and Sol have begun a series of photographs where they capture forgotten architectural elements around the Valley; and Lucas has developed a series of sculptures and small objects made by found objects and materials.

Some of these pieces are presented in this space, with the intention of understanding their collective project as the sum of their subjectivities and experiences of the territory.

Residency programme (May 2018)

Marianela Casado & Lucas Tibaldi (Argentina)

Displacement blue

Understanding the notion of place as an historical construction, this installation reflects upon the complex relationships between spaces and cultures, identity and power, negation and resistance.

A small sanctuary stands. In it the artists compile symbols of the values, habits and traditional knowledge that the inhabitants of Blanca have shared with them.

In addition to their installation, the artists perform an action in collaboration with Tamara Ascanio. Through it, they symbolize an offering and tribute to the coexistence of cultures in Blanca. The elements of the scene intend to expose a dual relationship with the soil, which is perceived for both cultures as generous and at the same time hard element.

BIO 

Marianela Casado / Anthropology / Pergamino, Argentina

In 2010, she began her studies in Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the National University of Rosario, UNR. Since 2011 she was part of a neighborhood work group called the Popular Education Group, with which she carried out university extension work in various peripheral neighborhoods of the city of Rosario. Some of the projects that she have been guiding are: Sembrando Realidades, construction of a community garden in the Puente Negro neighborhood, and Está por visto, a photography workshop with children in the Los Pumitas neighborhood. In 2015, she coordinated the Popular Education Group and held an adult literacy program called “Yo sí Puedo” in the Ludueña neighborhood. In 2016 she graduated as Professor in Anthropology and made different teaching experiences in secondary and university level. Currently, she is part of the Course ‘Curriculum and Didactics of Teachers in Anthropology’ as an Assistant Professor and is a graduate member of the Center for Philosophical, Historical and Anthropological Studies in Education, UNR. She is also doing her thesis, through which she conducts research within the area called Urban Anthropology. In 2017, she began an investigation based on a neighborhood in the city of Rosario that is in the process of being privatized.