Screening of Untitled (Schindler/Gray), for São Paulo by artist Kasper Akhøj Pedersen, and El Toque Criollo by artist Raimond Chaves.

Venue: Casa Modernista (Rua Santa Cruz, 235). Free Admission.

Kasper Akhøj Pedersen (Denmark)
Untitled (Schindler/Gray), 2006
100 color and B&W transparencies, 2 Kodak slide projectors, fade control, a 19´ talk.

A programmed slide installation with voice over rethinking the histories of two early modern houses: Eileen Gray's E.1027 in Roquebrune - Cap Martin, France (1926-1929), and Rudolph M. Schindler's Kings Rd. House in Hollywood (1921-1922).

As the first houses which both architects built for themselves, these houses became the territory of professional and personal conflicts, materialized in radical transformations on the fabric of the buildings. The piece presents some of the narratives attached to these buildings as they converge and diverge, following closely related paths, albeit in opposite directions.

Schindler's house was built as a radical experiment in gender equality and sexual liberation through floor planning - probably the first house ever designed for swinging. Villa E.1027's story is better known. Eileen Gray built it together with her friend Jean Badovici as a response and critique of the ideas of Le Corbusier, who later, without permission, painted 8 murals in the house, and called them "Graffiti a Cap Martin".

If we think of a building as a text or a field of discourse, we can think of these houses as palimpsests, whereby one erases a text in order to write another.

Raimond Chaves (Colômbia)
El Toque Criollo, 2002-2008
Work in progress. Talk with image and sound. 45´ screen projection.

El Toque Criollo consists in a live talk with multimedia presentation -images, musica and sound files- based on a collection of record sleeves displayed in several groups.

The record sleeves are of Latin American Pop Music LPs from the 60's through the 80's, which were found in flea markets and second-hand record shops of different countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Dominican Republic and the USA.

This narration focus on different issues of Latin American history, politics and culture, including a wide range of references from the artist's own family stories to more general ones.