Carapantallas Project
Open Call

Proyecto´ace invites artists, designers and researchers to participate in Carapantallas, a program that transforms traditional Buenos Aires billboards into spaces for artistic experimentation. Taking advantage of urban memory and the processual dynamics of a residency, this project combines printmaking, painting, print media, installation, and urban intervention to explore new forms of expression in the public and private spheres. Emerging from the restoration of two discarded ‘carapantallas’, now installed in our studio, this program offers a platform to intervene and reflect on these urban devices as contemporary palimpsests where the ephemeral and the institutional intertwine in the struggle for visibility and permanence.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:

Each participant will have 3 days to intervene one ‘carapantallas’. On the last day, the participant will finish his/her intervention live during the presentation event, with the local community as the audience present. Participation in the program:

• is completely free of charge
• is open to participants from all over Argentina (whether born or naturalised) who have a DNI–National Identity Card and who have not previously received grants from Fundación´ace
• will be held in two open calls
• accepts diverse techniques, such as painting, engraving, graffiti, 3D modelling, digital media, photosensitive techniques, object languages, etc.
• does not include transportation or lodging (for participants living outside the AMBA)
• includes materials and tools commonly found in a workshop*
  *(ask for special materials and tools)