club culturalmatienzo

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Pringles 1249Buenos Aires, Argentina

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club cultural matienzo: an organism

We stand for

We create, produce, support, communicate and con-nect artists, projects and networks, providing resources for the materialization and sustainability of innovative ideas.

The developmenT of Buenos Aires’ culTurAl lAndscApe

We produce and present high quality events for diverse audiences, ensuring a context of dialogue and freedom for the most diverse means of creation and recreation.

ExpErimEntation, divErsity and accEss to culturE

We promote creative bonds, team work, the fusion of the roles of artists and managers, and the development of independent networks of creation and community action.

Collaboration

a VenUe For arts, CULtUre anD CommUnitY LiFeWe host a daily program of activities in our 1000m2 building: music, performance arts, literature, visual arts, cinema, design, education, an online radio station, a bar and much more.

a CoLLeCtiVe oFCreationA team of 80 members create and produce events, festivals, exhibitions, publications and other projects inside and outside Matienzo’s building.

a moVement For CHangeAll that we do is rooted in the understanding of culture as an identity building process capable of generating creative bonds, collective action and social transformation.

20085 friends opened Club Cultural Matienzo. Until 2013, it was based in a 220m2 residential house in Palermo neighborhood.

2013The opening of our current venue, located in the booming Villa Crespo neighborhood, was a turning point, broadening the relevance and scope of the project.

2015With more than 80 active members, Matienzo is changing its internal structure to become a horizontal, cooperative organization.

so far

We foster conviviality and the development of active, creative and caring audiences. We look forward to meeting the cultural and social needs of our environ-ment, and to having a positive influence in the city’s cultural policies.

Community building

We are

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How we do

tHingstHe building

Home

980 m2 ViLLa Crespo 15 + 12

450 peopLe Mon-Sun …anD a bar

total area between Palermo & almagro neigHbourHoods

events + worksHoPs Per week

total audience caPacity

oPen from 5 Pm to 2 / 5 am

peopleClub Cultural Matienzo is a Non-For-Profit organization that supports and connects teams and projects. In the crossroads between a cooperative and a network of organizations, between a family and a tribe, Matienzo develops a collective identity while looking after the singularity and sustainability of each team and project.

Family & tribeHow we do things is as important as what we do. We aim to sustain an open, receptive structure signed by change, personal development and creative bonds.

Terrace60 seats

Bar & KiTchen3 bars

Lounge room

audiTorium60 seats60m2 floating floor

exhiBiTion room8 x 5 x 4 m

3 cLassrooms

main room350 people(120 seated)50m2 screen36m2 stage

radio coLmenaDigital studio

dressing roomsPaTio3 resTroom areas

3 bars of drinks and Homemade food

CLUB CULTURAL MATIENZO

COORDINATIONBOARD

SUPPORT / TRANSVERSALAREAS

Communication Design

Bar and kitchen

General coordination

Technical department

Administration

Commercial and financial department

Institutional relations

Legal issues

Infrastructure

Project development,production and programming

Juan Aranovich, Claudio Gorenman, Agustín Jais, Javier Loy, Gabriel KirchukMaia Minovich, Luz Peuscovich

CONTENTBOARD

CONTENT& PROGRAMMINGTEAMS

Músic

MARTE (Performance arts)

Matienschön (Visual arts)

Matienzo Lee (Literature)

Matienzo Audiovisual (Audiovisual arts)

ED en Matienzo(Design)

Colmena (Radio)

Formación en Matienzo(Education)

Paula Baró, Gabriel Kirchuk, Luz Peuscovich, Agustín Jais, Nela Regazzoni, Laura Preger, Micaela Freire, Isa Crosta,Sol de Martini, Camila Zapata Gallagher

ASSOCIATEDPROJECTS

Abogados culturales(Cultural Lawyers)

Yo Reciclo (Environmental & social undertaking)

Centro Cultural A Cielo Abierto Armando Labollita(Open air cultural center)

FCA (Festival ofself-managed culture)

ACTIVENETWORKS

MECA(Organization of independentcultural and artistic spaces)

ESCENA(Network of self-manageddrama spaces)

Cultura Unida(United Culture)

RAMA(Regional networkof self-managed artists)ACTIVE MEMBERS CURRENTLY 75

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60 314Curated at CCMatienzo Editions of LET IT VJ

& MAÑA festivals

exHibitions proJeCtsabroaD

FestiVaLs

20CommissioneD mUraLs

MatienschönContemporary art

teamLuz Peuscovich, Agustín Jais (heads), Martina Amiras, Sonia Basch, Camille Cousin, Tamara Painé Ciai, Santiago Ocampo, Daniel Bouix, Julia Roiffe.

areas,projects,teams stuff we’ve donetHe areasREgULAR CREATINg & PROgRAMMINg TEAMS

Matienschön Visual arts

MARTE Performing arts

Audiovisual arts

Music

Matienzo Lee Literature

Radio Colmena

Education

ED Design

besiDe & beYonDSPECIAL PROJECTS, PROJECTS IN CO-PRODUC-TION AND/OR SPONSORED BY MATIENZO

Abogados Culturales (Lawyers

for Culture)

Yo Reciclo (I Recycle)

CC Armando Labollita (open air cultural center)

noDes & LinKsACTIVE NETWORkS

MECA (Organization of independent cultural and artistic spaces)

ESCENA (Network of self-managed drama spaces)

Cultura Unida (United Culture)

RAMA (Regional self-managed network of artists)

A team of 9 artists, curators, art histo-rians, designers and producers develop contemporary art projects and run an exhibition space. Matienschön leads collective curatorial processes, providing human, spatial and material resources for the development of site specific projects. Its identity is rooted in collaboration, experimenta-tion and challenge, the development of experiences of artistic inhabiting, and the broadening of access to contempo-rary arts.

Since 2009, Matienschön has curated, produced and commissioned site-spe-cific exhibitions, new media & visual arts festivals (LET IT VJ and MAÑA) and events, performances, murals in public spaces, international residencies and exchange programs, open calls and con-tests, books and dossiers, workshops and talks. These projects are held at its own exhibition space at Club Cultural Matienzo, as well as in other spaces within the house, and at other public and private venues.

Matienschön has organized and cu-rated exhibitions and residencies of artists from France, germany, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Chile and the USA. It has also curated exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro and Rosario, and acted as jury for Belgium-based MAF Festival.

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matienscHön: A DECLARATION OF (ITS OWN) INTERESTMatienschön is interested in the development of inhabitable spaces with an artistic logic. How to make an exhibition space an inhabitable space? How to make an inhabiting experience an art experience?Matienschön is interested in experimental processes based on the collaboration between artists, curators and people with different backgrounds, involving new challenges and findings.Matienschön is interested in projects that involve material-ity -i.e. the development of objects, techniques, aesthetics. At the same time, it focuses on the relationships, processes and learning experiences that take place along the way.Matienschön is interested in new media as much as it is in-terested in traditional artistic disciplines, although under a contemporary vision. Furthermore, it is very interested in dis-ciplines at the edge of visual arts, as well as knowledge that expands the traditional field of the arts. Most of all, it is inter-ested in bringing all these disciplines and ideas together.

Matienschön is interested in planned and unplanned rela-tionship and contamination between the exhibitions and the rest of the activities at Club Cultural Matienzo, and the un-expected encounter with the audiences that wander around the building.Matienschön is involved in the spatial definition of Club Cul-tural Matienzo through the commissioning of murals and in-terventions. It is interested in developing sociability policies marked by warmth, inclusion and experimentation.Matienschön is interested in broadening the access to con-temporary arts.Matienschön is interested in developing a diverse agenda. It’s broad in its interests and thus eclectic in its proposals. It is interested in linking the personal, artistic and professional development of its members with the demands of their envi-ronment. For that reason, as it happens with every dynamic organism, it attempts at constantly renewing itself by putting the previous statements into question as often as it can.

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matienscHön:seLeCteD exHibitions

FeDeriCoLamas:“banDeras De Con-VenienCia”September 2014Curator: Agustín Jais

Lamas, who has showed his work in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janei-ro, Recife, México DF, Azores, Madrid & Barcelona, worked together with Matienschön to push the boundaries of his long-developed series “Hellish vision”. The central piece was a video installation based on two projections and a custom mirror that made pos-sible the translation of the double-im-age effects of his drawings into space and time.New drawings and a zine were also produced for the exhibition as sketch-es for a research based on social feel-ings towards land and the psychology and history of borders. The closing event was a “World Ping-Pong War”, with Lamas as referee and live visuals operator.

Coza: “CoVer/Un piano Fantasma”Abril 2014Curator: Agustín Jais

COZA turned Matienschön into a tem-porary “mutant” sound and graphic studio exploring ideas of data mining and DIY sound devices. The exhibi-tion’s central piece was a hacked pi-ano connected to motors and hanging drums. Around it laid different hacked instruments, a DIY tower of mega-phones and a graphic station that distributed fanzines and posters with texts, drawings and scores by COZA and guest artists.Live events were a pivotal aspect of the exhibition. Horacio Lavandera composed and played “We’ve never been modern”, a sound piece spe-cially created for the piano. Musicians and composers Zimmerman, Taranto, grinjot, Norris, Leibson, kirszner, RS, Sánchez and Asurey also played and/or composed pieces for the piano. Fur-thermore, collectives Sonido C!nico, Fábulas Mecánicas and Otro Laborato-rio lead an experimental soundmaking workshop, where 15 participants de-veloped DIY instruments and a sound performance. Finally, for the closing event, the instruments were installed at Matienzo’s main room for a festival where 4 experimental noise bands in-teracted with the works.After the exhibition, COZA presented the pieces for the “ghost piano” com-posed at Matienschön by Zimmerman and Taranto at MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) and CC Haroldo Conti.

sÉVerineHUbarD (FRA): “et QUe ça moUsse!”

October 2013Curators: Agustín Jais, Luz Peus-covich, Camille Cousin

In exchange for a glass of champagne, the artist invited audiences to wear swimsuits and enter a jacuzzi made of discarded wood and filled with con-fetti made of shredded argentinan money, found in the garbage. Hubard also showed a series of watercolors depicting objects found in and around Matienzo and decorated by chopped bills. After the exhibition, the wood and shredded paper money was used to create other objects.A dossier including an essay by Ariel Idez was published in December 2013 In 2014, the artist re-built the Jacuzzi at Eva Meyer Contemporain, Paris.Séverine Hubard (Lille 1977) has made projects and exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, France, The Nether-lands and germany, and residencies in Turkey and Japan. Her work is part of public and private collections world-wide. She was professor at Angouleme University and Centro de Investiga-ciones Artísticas.

VJ CoLLi: “oH, HoLiDaYs at Last”August 2014Curator: Luz Peuscovich

Matienschön invited the Bahia Blanca’ born, Buenos Aires’ based artist to de-velop a piece that may reconcile the two sides of his practice: the artist and the VJ, the inspired and the techni-cian, the serious and the funny. Colli created an interactive light and sound installation: a pun on “eternal rest”, the immersive space allowed different ex-periences and points of view: looking into the projector shaft, or interacting with the sound and vision by mov-ing a concrete tombstone. One night, musicians Chico Ninguno and Patokai played among the installation.

paULa DUró & aLeJanDro sorDi:“Línea DeL soL”May 2014Curator: Luz Peuscovich

Matienschön invited Duró and Sordi to pursue a challenge: work together for the first time, and together move from painting into space, installation and live art. The result was the foun-dation of an inseparable duo in art and life, that took the aesthetics de-veloped for “Line of sun” to galleries, walls, audiovisual sets in Buenos Aires and Paris and even videos for Cirque Du Soleil in Mexico.The starting point was to create a scene in space and time derived from the universe of their paintings. Three huts, costumes and other objects filled Matienschön. Every Tuesday life was infused into it: tarot readings, perfor-mances and acoustic musical jams, all framed by the artists’ hermetic, mysti-cal and alchemical vision of nature. As such, the exhibition acted as an oracu-lar artifact activated by music, friend-ship, collaboration and the operation of symbolic devices.

zosen & mina HamaDa (ARG/jAp/SpA): “popULar CULtUre”November 2014Curator: Camille Cousin

Zosen (Argentina) and Mina Hamada (Tokyo)’s first exhibition in Argentina as a duo consisted in paintings, prints and a site-specific installation. Besides the exhibition, the internationally ac-claimed duo based in Barcelona devel-oped a big mural in Barracas.

pLUraLOctober 2012, Galería Antonio Berni, Consulado General de Ar-gentina en Río de Janeiro & Sep-tember 2013, CC Matienzo.Curator: Camille Cousin

Plural was a Project developed for Rio de Janeiro’s Antonio Berni gallery by Matienschön director Luz Peuscovich alongside a group of 10 artists.A group of works (installation, paint-ing, photography, performance, vid-eo, participatory games) organized in three “roads” allowed for a sensorial and intellectual experience of bonds, networks and identities towards the building of a diverse, connected world. A version of the exhibition was pre-sented for the opening of the new exhibition space at Club Cultural Ma-tienzo’s current building, as a declara-tion of intentions for Matienschön’s fresh start: contemporary art as an ex-perience of inhabiting and embodying creative, transformative relationships.

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axeL VoiD (SpA/GER) & FranCo FasoLi (ARG):“meDioCre”December 2013Curator: Camille Cousin

Internationally acclaimed muralists Franco Fasoli and Axel Void (Spain/Berlin) were invited to work togeth-er for one intense week. The artists submerged into Argentina's current events through the reinterpretation of local news pieces. 14 paintings and a large scale mural, all created by them both, were the result of a dialogue and plastic negotiation between two art-ists with very strong graphic identities, that illuminated tensions regarding media biases and distilled the violence present in our daily actions. A dossier with an essay by print me-dia journalist Nicolás Lantos was pub-lished online.The exhibition was made possible by the support of AECID, CCEBA and the Spanish Embassy.

CHristiane pasCHeK (AuT) & martín boLLati (ARG): “FiCtions”January 2015Curator: Agustín Jais

Fictions was the first collaboration between photographers Martín Bol-lati (Argentina) and Christiane Paschek (Austria), and Paschek’s first exhibi-tion in America. Both artists worked together on an artist book, a mural and two photo series dealing with language as an axis crossing issues of fiction/reality, love/idealization and landscape/body.

CarL paLm (SwE) & gUiDo Yan-nitto (ARG): “4”February 2013Curators: Leandro Martínez De-pietri & Renata Zas

Palm’s first exhibition in South Ameri-ca, and his first collaboration with Yan-nitto, was also for Matienschön the first international residency project.The curators invited both artists –who didn’t know each other but shared aesthetic and conceptual interests, ways of working and also prominent international recognition- to inves-tigate together the possibilities and constraints of the exhibition space. The artists reflected on the possibili-ties of displaying contemporary art in a private, independent cultural center where different disciplines share space and time. Art and entertainment, sa-cred and profane, mainstream and un-derground, suggestion and pedagogy were questioned through different media and techniques in a sober, chal-lenging display.As part of the exhibition, an open dia-logue around the uses of art spaces was held between curators of three very different contemporary art insti-tutions: Florencia Battiti (Parque de la Memoria), Bárbara Renati (Casa Presa) and Agustín Jais (Matienschön).To make the exhibition possible, Mat-ienschön worked together with Swe-den’s IASPIS and set up a studio space for Palm in Buenos Aires.

matienscHön FestiVaLs

Let it VJNew media, creative technologies & real-time artfestival

Held on a tree-monthly basis since 2012, LET IT VJ aims for the development, dialogue and visibility for artists working with new media.Each edition, more than 30 forward-looking artists and musi-cians show their work in 8 simultaneous spaces for 9 con-tinuous hours. Live bands and DJs share the main room with a 360 degrees, 29-screens setup where the best VJs display their talents. Interactive installations, experimental video-games, exhibitions and performances by both established and emerging, local and international artists span across every other room at Matienzo. As well as presenting innovative work, LET IT VJ also commis-sions the creation of new pieces.

nUmbers12 editions 2012-2015

180 participating artists

15 international artists

900 visitors per edition

some artistsVilla Diamante. Axel krygier. Bad Boy Orange. R3nder. Rec.Design VJcrew (SWI). Sol del Río. Carola Bony & Luciano Foglia (ARg/gER). Internal Affairs (ARg/gER). kif (URU). klauss. Tomy Wahl. Mateo Amaral.

maÑaVisual arts festival

An annual festival of installations and performances, MAÑA poses a question across the entire Club: how to transform default behaviors? How can a space be used? A dancer in the deposit. A VIP room in the main stage. An audio installation in the bathroom. An inflatable castle in the exhibition room: Dozens of artists create original works that turn the space into a game with rules to be discovered. The 8-hour, one-day festival ends up with music and dancing.

nUmbers2 editions 2013-2014

25 participating artists

600 visitors 2014

some artistsLolo y Lauti, Leandro Tartaglia, Liv Schulman, gabriela golder, Diego Alberti, Agustina Mihura, Ramiro Iturrioz, Paula Apa-ricio, CAHS, Fluo, Jorge Crowe & Javier Plano, Laura Preger, Santiago Orti, Octávio Tavares, Tíndari, Violeta Mansilla.

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3 5 30 4 260Per week Research, supporting &

infrastructure subsidies(per year average)

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martePerforming arts

MARTE – Matienzo Artes Escénicas (Matienzo Performing Arts) is a team devoted to the development of the per-forming arts. We promote the work of emerging directors, support young art-ists and encourage collaboration be-tween directors and performers.A group of fifteen cultural entrepre-neurs and artists work collectively to produce and present plays, series and festivals, show their own work, and build international networks of cooper-ation.MARTE’s productions are presented in

the Club Cultural Matienzo’s auditor-ium, with a capacity for 60 spectators, as well as in other local and internation-al venues.Latin American cultural networks are a main part of MARTE’s activities. We are actively involved in ESCENA (Au-tonomous Drama Spaces in the city of Buenos Aires), with which we produce a yearly, all-encompassing festival. We also work alongside RAMA (Network of Self-Managed Art), thanks to which a dozen exchanges among Argentina, Brazil and Chile have taken place.

teamPaula Baró (head), giuliana kiersz, Lucía Deca, Nacho Sánchez, Martina garcía, Nicolás Lodigiani, Clémence grimal (FRA), Hyngrid Bermann (BRA), Carolina Juskoff, Eva Jarriau (FRA), Juanca Prudencio (BOL), Belén Charpentier, Ana Capalbo, Bruno Fama.

pLataFormaLoDoMud Platform

_Festival of performing arts2 editions since 2014

LODO is a platform that promotes ex-perimentation and exchange in the field of the performing arts: dance, theatre and performance. LODO joins forces with artists and institutions to promote cooperative networks.Every year, the platform opens its doors to the public with a week-long festival including crossing projects between local and international artists, master classes and workshops commissioned by the festival and its partners, devel-oping in public spaces as well as in state and self-managed venues in the city of Buenos Aires and in the countryside. The week ends with an art marathon at Club Cultural Matienzo, presenting

marteperFormatiVe arts FestiVaLs

a selection of theater, dance and per-formance works resulting from an open call.LODO is interested in stage or site-spe-cific plays and performances with a rad-ically personal language, that emerge from territorial issues, that push the boundaries of theatre and the perform-ing arts.Alongside its partners, LODO builds new opportunities for participating art-ists to develop their work, by means of showing their work in other venues and festivals, attending artistic residencies and supporting their future produc-tions.

eL porVenirThe future_Theater festival 6 editions since 2009

Each year, El Porvenir commissions 12 new plays to directors under 30 years old. Plays are presented during one month, 3 plays per show. The festival also includes research projects, work-shops, seminars and talks, and issues a publication of artists’ texts and images.

After the festival, the 12 selected direc-tors are responsible for selecting the next year’s participants. Many of the 70 plays commissioned by the festival have toured the region and have been selected for national festi-vals and biennials.

1984_Interdisciplinary festival November 2th, 2014

An interdisciplinary festival that brought to the present the ideas developed by g. Orwell. Matienzo was divided into the four Oceania’s Ministries, each of them comprising installations, perfor-mances, music, workshops and round tables exploring what 1984 had to say to our contemporary society.More than 30 artists and academics participated in this one-day festival. Playwright Marcos Perearnau staged a fake public interview with a young translator born in China’s contempo-rary Communist regime. Performer gael Polícano Rossi led an experience of hypnosis aimed at “forgetting useless words”. Project Salinger & Sonia Basch

mixed love and surveillance in a device whose starting point was recording and drawing kissing couples in Matienzo. The Teenage Theater Investigation Workshop staged a play called “We are the future”. PUNTO collective devel-oped a highly technological live au-diovisual installation and performance as a utopian & dystopian experiment on contemplative peace. Matienzo’s Design team curated an exhibition of posters. The band La Panda del Wonder Chowa improvised around found video footage.Hundreds of people came to Club Cul-tural Matienzo despite the pouring rain.

interCambioExchange

_Performative arts festival May 30th, 2015

Labeled “general considerations around artistic chemistry”, this one-day festival dealt with Club Cultural Mat-ienzo’s core values: exchange and col-laboration. 44 artists were invited to work in duos, each one collaborating with his/her partner for the first time, creating original performances, situa-

tions and experiences that took place everywhere in Matienzo over a tight schedule, for an audience of almost 1000 people. Furthermore, Matienzo’s meeting room was turned into an “ex-change of knowledge zapping”: a mara-thon of 12 mini-workshops, from Big-bang theory to beatboxing to recycling.

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May 2015 / 6 nightsDIVERgENCIA was the result of the need to open an institutionalized, vis-ible and open space inside Matienzo to discuss gender and sexual identities. More than 20 artists staged short per-formances, readings, songs and experi-ences.

April 2014 / 8 nightsFour commissioned plays, each taking a different raw material as a starting point: wood, plastics, organic materials, and technological waste. Participating artists were contemporary art duo Lolo y Lauti, photographer Belén Charpen-tier, theater director Laila Dustchazky, and contemporary dance collective Café Müller.

After this premiere at “Materia Prima”, two of the plays were invited to perform again on different stages. “Comunidad”, Charpentier’s directorial debut, was presented again at LODO Festival and led the artist to be selected for 2015’ El Porvenir Festival. “Cumbres Borrasco-sas”, Lolo y Lauti’s adaptation of “With-ering Heights” performed by motorized electrical appliances, seasoned at CCRR Rojas, University of Buenos Aires.

marte regurlarly develoPs Performative seasons. organized around a Particular subject matter, marte commissions and Presents Performances, sHort Plays and otHer actions.

Produced by marteoUr pLaYs

LOS RuBieCitOS The liTTle blondesWriter and Director: Laura Derpic (Bolivia)Cast: Ruben Sabadini, Miguel Angel Vigna, Franz Baltazar, Eva Jarriau (Fr) and Fernando Viñas.Live drawing: Sonia BaschLighting designer: Rocio Caliri

Los Rubiecitos is based on “Alma de Ni-ño” (A boy’s soul), a learning manual with which many Bolivian generations learned to read and write until 1994. The book served as a means for politi-cal indoctrination, acceptance of child labor, racial segregation and the dis-semination of myths as the one stating that the military loss of the sea is the cause for Bolivia’s underdevelopment. Los Rubiecitos poses a hypothesis: what would happen if two of the book’s characters went into the real world, af-ter being both accomplices and victims of this indoctrination. In their attempt to recover the sea for their country, they revolt against their owners/bosses (“the little blondes”) and put the book’s universe into crisis. Produced by MARTE, Los Rubiecitos premiered in Club Cultural Matienzo in 2014. A reduced version of the play was presented at FILBA 2014 (International Literature Festival of Buenos Aires), Centro Cultural San Martin. Club Cul-tural Matienzo published a dossier on the play, with critical texts by Jorge Ve-larde Rosso, Magdalena De Santo and Julio César Estravis Barcala.

eN ADeLANteGoinG forwardWriter and Director: Marcos PerearnauCast: Adela Busquet, José María Mones Ca-zón, Catalina Muñoz, gastón Nesossi, Matías Reck, Martina Schvartz

A group of youngsters set to perform idealistic actions in a “seventies” fash-ion, although their activities don’t have any meaning or target. Weapons, thou-sands of beers, books, a songbook and a van to travel around South America are used as props by the youngsters, who seem to be learning something they don’t know what it is. What they know is no one can stop them. It seems as if the revolution takes place in an uncon-scious way, like a board game.The play premiered in 2013’ Buenos Aires Biennal of Young Arts; produced by MARTE, it was performed in 2014 in Club Cultural Matienzo. A dossier on the play was published, with critical essays by Lucas Brockenshire, Manuel Mensa, Sebastián Peloche and Jorge Drechsler.

COMuNiDADCommuniTyWriter and Director: Belén CharpentierPerformer: Antonella QuerzoliStage design: Sergio FasaniLightning designer: Rocío Caliri

A participatory performance that deals with private property, money and pol-lution, Community lays out a small scale model about big issues: the art of organizing a community through the building of a house. A project as uto-pian as constructive, it proposes ways to generate artificial but possible social life. Community builds up a community to destroy it and interweave it back again.Community was developed in 2014 for “Raw Material”, a series of original plays commissioned and produced by MAR-TE. Club Cultural Matienzo published a dossier on the performance, with texts by Mara Teit, Tomás Bartoletti, gabriela C. Pignataro and Rocío Frías, and pho-tographs by Martina garcía and Paula Surraco.

DivergenciaDivergence

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Matienzo AudiovisualFilm and audiovisual arts

Matienzo Audiovisual is a team of pro-ducers, film-makers, photographers and students that love movies. We put on films and produce a diverse array of pro-jects at Club Cultural Matienzo’s digital auditorium as well as in other venues.Our main goal is to present local and international independent audiovisual arts to wide audiences, and to foster dialogue between artists, audiences and organizations. To pursue this goal, we curate “META CINE”, weekly screenings of national full-length films presented by their makers. Furthermore, we develop “Plano contra plano”, an event where an

established and an emerging filmmaker have a dialogue through and about their films, and we partner with Colectivo ARkHÉ for “ARkHÉ presenta”: monthly screenings dedicated and presented by relevant experimental film & video art-ists. Finally, in partnership with state and private organizations from the Netherlands, germany, Uruguay and Argentina, we’ve hosted series of na-tional, regional and international short and full-length films. Also, we look forward to developing experimental approaches to audience participation at film shows. Live music,

romantic dinners, cocktail tastings, performances, poetry readings and re-designed movie poster exhibitions have accompanied some of our special movie nights. In the same spirit, in 2014 we created “Festiset” a festival that pre-sented original videoinstallations, per-formances and workshops by 15 artists in 8 simultaneous rooms.Finally, we explore the connections between audiovisual arts and other disciplines. We regularly present per-formances, installations and new media works.

teamLaura Preger & Micaela Freire (heads), Denise Lara Margules, Antonella Mastantuono, Cleménce grimal, Julio César Estravis Barcalá.

Some artists:Martín Piroyanski, Marcos López, Lúcia Murat (BRA), Néstor Frenkel, Andrés Di Tella, Ariel Winograd, Santiago giralrt, Iván Fund, Ayar Blasco, Martín garabal, Melina Serber, Liza Casullo, Liv Schulman, Marcos Perearnau, Leticia Obeid, gabriela golder, Paulo Pécora, Andrés Denegri, Pablo Marín, Jorge Honik, Ayar Blasco.

Connect:www.facebook.com/MatienzoAudiovisual

MusicMusic is at the heart of Club Cultural Matienzo. We discover, present, sup-port and develop a broad scope of musical projects, focusing on innova-tion, experimentation, potential and professionalism. Our aim is to promote the development of Buenos Aires’ independent musical landscape and present it to wider audi-ences; to foster the meeting of different styles and audiences; to provide tech-nical, spatial and human resources that guarantee quality and innovation; to foster the connections between music and other means of expression; and to make each gig a transforming experi-

ence both up and down the stage.We’ve hosted thousands of shows and all kinds of musical performances, from big festivals to intimate concerts in spe-cially designed environments. We present at least 5 shows every week at our main room for 350 spectators. Furthermore, we produce festivals and cycles such as:“Mañana es mejor” (Tomorrow is bet-ter), a festival to pay tribute to Luis A. Spinetta’s musical and social legacy, launched by Club Cultural Matienzo and produced in collaboration with 10 artist-run spaces and the NgO “Con-

duciendo a conciencia”. Each of its 3 editions has presented more than 100 emerging artists in 11 simultaneous venues, with free entrance.“Hit de road” festival, a marathon of music and visual arts that celebrates journeys as vital experiences. 3 simul-taneous music stages, zine fairs, per-formances and poetry readings, group exhibitions and visual paraphernalia are part of a multi-sensorial collective trav-el experience. First developed in 2009 by Club Cultural Matienzo, it has held 5 annual editions and presented 80 bands and 50 visual artists for almost 3000 spectators.

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Some artistsNick Allbrook (AUS), Skip&Die (NLD), Yaima Orozco (CUB), george Haslam (gBR), Dani Umpi (URU), El Caribefunk (COL), Chinoy (CHI), El Mató A Un Policía Motorizado, Mariana Baraj, Aca Seca, Palo Pandolfo, Miss Bolivia, Edgardo Cardozo, Los Álamos, Astro (CHI), gabo Ferro, Fauna, Morbo & Mambo, Alerta Pachuca, Franny glass (URU), Leo garcía.

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Matienzo LeeLiterature

“Matienzo Lee” (Matienzo Reads) pre-sents and develops literary events such as readings, book presentations and literary festivals. Our aim is to support novel authors and independent pub-lishing houses; to promote experimen-tation in alternative formats for story-telling, audience participation in literary events, and to foster the merging of literature and other disciplines. Some of our projects:“Varieté Literaria (literary variety show)”, produced by Matienzo Lee for 4 years, is a monthly event that commissions pieces around a given subject. The texts

are read by their authors in combination with visual, musical and/or performing arts, always providing audiences with diverse tools to engage. “Festival Minitas (girly festival)”, created in 2012, gathered together 30 authors, songwriters and playwrights in a festi-val focused on feminine issues. “Taller interactivo (interactive work-shop)” is a monthly series of open, ex-periential learning events coordinated by invited lecturers. It is intended to take on the multiple dimensions of liter-ary development through personal ex-periences and non-formal teaching.

The event “Homage to Roberto Bolaño” commissioned an original theater piece that was presented alongside a reading by celebrated author Martín kohan.Independent publishing houses such as Pánico el Pánico, Blatt & Rios, Entropía, Mardulce, Vox, Hydra, Viajera Editor-ial, Eloísa Cartonera, Conejos, galera, Milena Caserola, Melón Editora and Añosluz regularly present their new books and host literary events on our premises.In 2014 and 2015, Matienzo Lee also hosted FILBA, Buenos Aires Inter-national Literature Festival.

teamMarianela Regazzoni (head), Luciano Cioffi, Isa Crosta, Camila Zapata gallagher

Some artists:Silvina giaganti, Washington Cucurto, Ignacio Molina, Esteban Castromán, Lucas Oliveira, Enzo Maqueira, Iván Moiseef, Iosi Havilio, gabriel Cortiñas, Victor López Zumezlu, Darío Sztajnszrajber, Fernando Bogado, Tom Lupo, Juan Terrano- va, gabriela Bejerman, Rosario Bléfari, Al- fredo Jaramillo, Leonardo Oyola, Mercedes Halfon, José María Muscari, Natalia Rozenblum, Alejandra Zina, Osvaldo Bossi, Ariel Bermani, Mariano Blatt, Camila Fabbri, Féliz Bruzzone, José María Brindisi, Tálata Rodríguez, Natalia Moret, Juan Diego Icardona, gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Leticia Martín.

radio ColmenaOnline radio station

Since 2010, Radio Colmena has spread independent culture through more than 30 weekly live shows, musical selec-tions, live broadcasts of shows, festivals and cultural events at different venues in Buenos Aires, and the development of events such as open radio nights and parties.In 2013, we moved our studio to the very heart of Club Cultural Matienzo’s building, radically growing in infrastruc-ture and visibility. In September 2014, for our fourth anniversary, we made a festival that celebrated radio, digital

audiences, humor and independent culture across the entire Club Cultural Matienzo’s building, with participa-tory installations, bands and live radio. In 2015, we redesigned our identity; under the new slogan “Internet-born and raised”, Radio Colmena fully em-braced its digital identity, with columns in each live show dedicated to digital culture and intensified activity in every social network.Artists, journalists, designers and cul-tural entrepreneurs such as Martín garabal, Villa Diamante, gael Polícano

Rossi, Paula Maffía, Loli Molina and many more host weekly live shows, while thousands of musicians, writers, actors and personalities talk and per-form at Radio Colmena’s studio.

teamSol de Martini (head), Natali Stein, Alan Janowski, Luz Venneri, Sofía Carmona, Ezequiel kinigsberg.

Listen:www.radiocolmena.com.ar

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EducationClub Cultural Matienzo’s education area puts forward a program comprising workshops, seminars, creative labora-tories and other activities around three central concepts: research and experi-mentation in arts, creative technologies and self-management.Workshops are led by renowned cre-ators with whom we work to enhance their teaching skills. Workshops put together the study of theories, lan-guages and skills with opportunities for concrete action, looking forward to the development of collective initia-tives around artistic, cultural and social issues. Our aim is to strengthen the hybrid role of the “artist-creator-man-

ager”, professionals with interdisciplin-ary mindsets, capable of self-providing the conditions for the materialization of their ideas, and interested in developing networks of collaboration and solidar-ity.Workshops are complemented by the provision of spatial, technical, human, creative and institutional resources for the development of projects by lectur-ers and participants. Furthermore, an annual “Open workshop” festival pre-sents all projects and experiments de-veloped in the current year and acts as a platform for dialogue and collabora-tion between participants, teachers and other people involved. Finally, works

and initiatives developed in the work-shops are given opportunities to partici-pate in other Club Cultural Matienzo’s events and productions.

Some Teachers:Mariano Swi, Colectivo Argentino de Danza, Ezequiel Acuña, Nacho Sánchez, Lucas DM, Marina Zeising, Colectivo ARkHÉ, Celia Coido, Coiffeur, Jonah Schwartz, Inés Efrón.

team:Camila Zapata gallagher (head), Mariel Britez, Agustín Jais, Juan Aranovich, Marcos Perearnau.

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ED, Matienzo’s Design team, aims to spread the work of young local design-ers and engage audiences in issues around the relationship between design and its context, through the develop-ment of non-traditional design events and initiatives. Starting in 2014, a team of design-ers developed projects like “Proyecto Poroto”, a bi-monthly series of talks by young designers. We also curate design

exhibitions at Club Cultural Matienzo.ED en Matienzo also collaborates with other Club Cultural Matienzo teams for the production of events such as “El Diseño en Foco”, a series of film shows and dialogues around design and en-vironment. Furthermore, we partner with other groups and organizations to present events and festivals such as “Replika”, devoted to contemporary counter-advertising artivist strategies.

Some artists:aniel Arzola, Max Rompo, Fede Cimatti (Prensa La Libertad), gustavo Zhard (ODD), Juan Manuel Puerto (La vuelta al mes), Ana Sanfelippo, Santiago Pozzi, Proyecto Squatters, Franco Basualdo, Debora Nishimoto.

team: Isa Crosta (head), Emilia Ferrareso, Florencia Cicirello, Paula Wegman, Sonia Basch, Eugenia Summa.

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An NgO devoted to pro-bono legal consulting for artist-run or independ-ent cultural spaces and collective pro-jects. The organization is made up of 30 lawyers, whose activity develops in the following areas: permits, fines and closings; copyrights; legal consult-ing; research and training. Abogados Culturales actively participated in the development and promotion of a bill concerning licenses for cultural cent-ers, unanimously passed by the Buenos Aires city Legislature.

Link: www.facebook.com/AbogadosCulturales

Club Cultural Matienzo manages a Me-dia Library currently hosting 400 books, magazines and CDs donated by inde-pendent record companies, publishing houses, organizations and artists: from self-published records to established bands; from cult zines to some of the most important cultural magazines of the last decade. The collection is avail-able every afternoon.Link: www.ccmatienzo.com.ar/mediateca

Produced by Club Cultural Matienzo in collaboration with more than 60 spac-es, managers and artists based in the city of Buenos Aires, FCA’s aims to pro-mote the development of the self-man-aged cultural sector, share resources, strengthen networks of collaboration and spread collective and self-managed ways of cultural production to wider audiences.In September 2014, FCA’s first edi-tion presented a week-long program of hundreds of events, shows, exhibitions, films, performances and talks at 60 si-multaneous venues. A closing festival in a park presented music, theater, visual arts, readings and a fair of independ-ent record labels, publishing houses, art collectives and cultural initiatives.FCA is currently in the pre-production stage of its second edition.Link: www.festivalfeca.com.ar

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A project launched by Club Cultural Matienzo that seeks to bridge the gap between neighbors and cooperatives devoted to waste recovery through the development of an app that connects them both, allowing them to efficiently coordinate recollection of recyclable items, improving logistics and foster-ing source separation and recycling of waste. The app also has a management system for cooperatives.More than a tool for neighbors and cooperatives, the project’s goal is to make visible the amount of people and organizations that work in unfavorable conditions to separate the city’s waste, in order to build a “green community” that may advocate for the re-utilization, source separation and recycling of waste.Starting in 2012, in 2014 Yo Reciclo was awarded first prize at the con-test “Throw your ideas to the trash” organized by the city of Buenos Aires’ Environmental Protection Agency, guaranteeing funds for the integral de-velopment of the project.

Club Cultural Matienzo has been collab-orating since 2014 in the development of a Cultural Center in an unused plot of land in Avellaneda neighbourhood (Province of Buenos Aires). Its activity is focused on community development. In 2015 the project was selected at Fun-dación Lebensohn’s open call “Interdis-cipline collective practices in context”. “Labollita” will develop an exhibition and program of activities at Fundación Lebensohn in December 2015.

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Founded in 2010, MECA is a network of self-managed and artist-run cultural centers based in Buenos Aires. Currently composed of 20 spaces, is a platform for collaboration whose goals are establishing connections, promoting visibility and advocating for is-sues related to local cultural policies. Besides developing artistic festivals and exchange programs, MECA drafted and advocated for the bill concerning licenses for cultural cent-ers passed in December 2014.

Link: www.facebook.com/MovimientoMECA

ESCENA gathers together and represents more than 20 self-managed drama spaces in the city of Buenos Aires. Declared of Cultural Interest by the city’s legislative body, advo-cates for cultural policies in support of inde-pendent activities in the cultural field, and develops events such as Festival ESCENA, a week-long marathon of plays and special activities hosted by all ESCENA members.

Link: www.facebook.com/espaciosescena

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A movement that gathers together cultural oganizations such as MECA, ESCENA, AR-TEI, FAAO, Potencia Unida, La Cultura No Se Clausura, Seamos Libres, Roja y Blanca and Abogados Culturales. It acts in representa-tion of teachers, students, artists, manag-ers and cultural workers, street artists, self-managed spaces, artists’ studios artists-run spaces, theaters, and audiences. Founded in 2014 as part of the initiatives leading towards the passing of the bill concerning licenses for Cultural Centers, it advocates for the meeting of the diverse needs and de-mands of the city’s cultural sector.

Link: www.facebook.com/la.cultura.unida

A network that develops self-managed ex-change programs between artists from dif-ferent countries and of diverse practices, founded in 2011 by a growing group of art-ists from South America.

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The new building seems to have everything it needs to become a high point

of the independent artistic activity.

A key venue of Buenos Aires’ underground scene since 2008. It has built its own

identity. The city has reasons to celebrate the opening of its new building, which

increases by four the size of the original

What shouldn’t be forgotten is the inevi-table effect that [spaces like Club Cultural Matienzo] have in their neighbourhoods and the way they operate as permanent

exercises of civility and the search for agreements.

A must in alternative culture. There is no need to exaggerate about what happens besides its doors: everything is contained in the literally uncountable activities that

happen every day at the Club.

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