Balance

Fall 2013
Caracas, Venezuela
Installation and procession

This work was created in Caracas with 75 participants from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, hosted by Backroom CCS with support from the United States Embassy in Venezuela and the UCV. Balance was created through a series of workshops and public walks throughout the campus designed by Carlos Raul Villanueva. Discarded building materials were used to create a series of full scale drawings to be used in a procession through campus and in an installation in one of the university’s galleries. The procession followed a path between the artworks which inspired our drawings. Each of the murals represented, for the architect, a synthesis of art and architecture. Participants worked together, teaching each other skills and figuring out ways to make dissimilar things connect. We used the ground floor of Villanueva’s Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo building to build the the three dimensional drawings. The project also included a sound workshop with Josefina Benedetti.

Project Proposal
Printed Matter Catalog

Photography by Meridith Kohut for Backroom CCS

Collaborators:  Magu Acedo, Alma Ariza, Leonardo Ascanio, María Eugenia Bacci, Guillermo Barrios, Jarrod Beck, Paulina Benavides, Josefina Benedetti, Gioconda Berríos, Miguel Braceli, Eleana Briceño, Gabriela Callejón, JF Cantón, José Gregorio Castillo, Antón Ceballos, Kristian Ceballos, Daniela Codecido, María Eugenia Contreras, María Gabriela Córdova, Jonathan Corro, Tomás Davis, Alejandro Dávila, Hernán Díaz, Rody Douzoglou, Valeria Escobar, Juan Carlos Figuera Durán, Astrid Franco, Analenin Galindo, Leonardo García, Jorge Gómez Salas, Eliana Goncalves, Diego González, Mariano Guevara, Kleyver Gutiérrez, Miguel Gutiérrez, Stefan Gzyl, Fernando Henríquez, Ángel Hernández, Gustavo Izaguirre, Ricardo Jaimes-Branger, Katherine de Jesús, Meridith Kohut, Oscar Lezama, Tiago Loureiro, Alexandra Masson, Ignacio Marcano, Andrea Marcial, Ariam Martínez, Génesis Martínez, Franklin Mendoza, Nathalia Mendoza, Julio César Mesa, Alexandra Mercado Araujo, Edwin Meyer, Eduardo Miralles, Luis Montero, Emilia Monteverde, Viviana Mujica, Miguel Navarro, Alexandra Núñez, Jesús Olarte, Carla Olivares, Raquel Paolini Madrid, Andrea Palacios, Alfonso y Stefania Paolini, María Isabel Peña, Daniele Pignataro, Luciana Pimentel, Arlenys Pino, Ana Cecilia “Chechi” Ponte, Andreina Ramos, Yoisy Rangel, Jonathan Reverón, Oriana Ríos, Wilmer Rivas, Joel Rivero, Adriana Rodríguez, Alan Rodríguez, Pia Rodríguez, María Alejandra Rosales, María Victoria Saavedra, María Corina Sacchini, Carlos Sánchez, Juan Francisco Sanz, Laura Sayan, Francisco Schutte, Carlos Sisco, David Soto, Natasha Tiniacos, Bárbara Valera, Gigliola Varvaro, Débora Vetencourt, Saúl Yuncoxar, Luis Felipe Zamora