{"id":25392,"date":"2024-10-01T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/la-gent\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:50:09","slug":"la-gent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/la-gent\/","title":{"rendered":"La Gent"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″ el_class=”texto-info”][vc_column_text css=””]Date:<\/strong> June 2024<\/p>\n

Location: <\/strong>IVAM Institut Valenci\u00e0 d’Art Modern.<\/p>\n

In the context of:<\/strong> CONFLU\u00c8NCIES. Artistic interventions in rural areas<\/a><\/p>\n

Curated by:<\/strong> Eva Bravo and Sonia Mart\u00ednez[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Confluences. Between the archive and intervention<\/a><\/strong> is an exhibition proposal that reports on, archives and updates events that have taken place since 2021 in various towns with fewer than one hundred inhabitants in the Valencian Community as part of the programme Confluences<\/a>, and displays twelve new interventions and pieces by the team of artists created specifically for the IVAM Valencian Institute of Modern Art.<\/p>\n

‘La Gent’ is Makea’s proposal for the exhibition, which continues to focus on the collective capacity to construct messages of hope in order to transform the dull and cruel reality in which we live.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”24671″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]The intervention takes the form of a mobile wooden bench engraved with the inscription \u201cLA GENT\u201d. It is a handcrafted piece that makes use of the rest of the original reclaimed red pine beam that we used for the interventions in the Sacanyet cave (Alto Palancia) and the square in Puebla de San Miguel (Rinc\u00f3n de Ademuz)<\/a>. It is accompanied by Joan Brossa’s poem \u201cLa Gent\u201d (Askatasuna, 1970), also engraved on a large blackboard that visitors to the exhibition can interact with.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”24667″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]Both pieces construct a proto-space for reflection and action within the museum.<\/p>\n

LA GENTE (the people) are the element that fills the void in the TOWN, completing it, giving it life, giving it a voice and making it what it is. It is no longer an inert and static element, but a mobilizing force.<\/p>\n

This artefact brings together the reflections and lessons learned from previous interventions and transfers them to another context where, together with Joan Brossa’s poem La Gente, they are reinterpreted and take on a new collective and transformative meaning.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”24804″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” css=””][vc_single_image image=”24664″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” css=””][vc_single_image image=”24806″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]LA GENT<\/p>\n

People don’t realize the power they have:<\/p>\n

a week-long general strike would be enough<\/p>\n

to collapse the economy, paralyze the state,<\/p>\n

and demonstrate that the laws they impose are unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Joan Brossa, 1970<\/p>\n

(Translated)<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”24673,24675,24677,24679″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” speed=”2000″ autoplay=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes” wrap=”yes” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]For the archive section, two publications have been produced that bring together the experiences and materials from the interventions in Sacanyet and La Puebla de San Miguel, as well as the activations in the territory.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”24667″ img_size=”full” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” css=””][vc_single_image image=”24811″ img_size=”large” css=”” title=”Publications”][vc_single_image image=”24809″ img_size=”large” css=””][vc_single_image image=”24790″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” css=”” title=”Related interventions” link=”https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/la-del-pueblo-confluencies\/”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intervention and proposed pieces for the exhibition “Confluences. Between the Archive and Intervention” at the IVAM – Valencian Institute of Modern Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions","category-exhibit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25479,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25392\/revisions\/25479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeatuvida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}