Dislocacion Project
Decreto público no habitable

By the invitation to Dislocación I dare to cross the boundaries of the architecture through the cotemporary art. The problem of social housing in Chile towards a more universal reality, shows a context to watch and think which is different than the original. Carrying out a transfer as aesthetical as political, through a “social modeling”1, in which a peripheral look is inserted, this dismantled  space, of social problem, is moved towards a space visited my minority.

The Work

This work is the representing of the living – dining room of  a basic social housing  (12 mt 2) in which the average Chilean family of 5 persons lives every day. The overcrowding and the accumulation is  complete, directly affecting on psycho-somatic, sociological  illness, and strongly increasing the desire of being out of home and look for the street.

On the other hand there is a trend to try to solve these problems, but from a look that does not understand the real necessities of these communities. The sustainability in Chile goes through paying the utility bills, where does the citizen participation arrive. The desire of people is space, place and belonging. But, how is this materialized?, Where do they find  this?

The social housing has been transformed, or certainly it comes to be a political, economical and cultural setting where the favored ones are those who do not live in this place and there are some lucky ones that do live in this context of social fragility who really find in this space a sense of belonging. How, do people in this fragility situation find and use the public space?

The setting proposes a space to reflect about how do we see, get close and think about people that lack opportunities, live on a stigmatized and poor environment. How do we see ourselves reflected and projected in this context? And on the other hand it shows us reality. Producing a dislocated space. A place created by every spectator looking around the installatio.
Javier Rioseco

OOO Estudio 2008

OOOESTUDIO‘s objective is to generate  every necessary mean in order to transmit culture through the recognizing, observation, studies and research of  socio cultural problems, in a critical, independent way and free of particular, governmental and / or institutional interests of every kind. It specifically generates opportunities of creation, analysis, promotion, transformation and development of culture in Chile and all over the world.

At the same time we propose to Foster the associability through the creation, development and promotion of net working and through cultural, technological and economical exchange so it can favor the generation of new meeting and opportunity places, emphasizing on processes, transformations and organization.

Javier Rioseco
Was born in Santiago de Chile on 1981. After a short stay at the Music School of Universidad de Chile, he studies Architecture and Art at the same time at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. On 2008 he created the OOOEstudio Society – Centro de Estudios Culturales.

www.oooestudio.com/

/ Created and curated by Ingrid Wildi Merino in Santiago, Chile and curated by Ingrid Wildi Merino and Kathleen Bühler at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. wildimerino.curatorial@gmail.com