{"id":15977,"date":"2021-10-02T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2021-10-06T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:19:16","slug":"press-release-davenport-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/press-release-davenport-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Braceli’s Public Art Project at Davenport Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miguel Braceli’s Public Art Project at Davenport Park<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

PUBLIC ART AT DAVENPORT PARK, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

VAEA New Rochelle Arts, The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts\u00a0<\/strong>(VAEA) & The New Rochelle Parks and Recreation presented the public-art project Davenport Park\u00b4s Here Lies a Flag<\/em> by venezuelan architect and artist-in-residence in New Rochelle, Miguel Braceli <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Miguel Braceli presents Here Lies a Flag<\/em> in collaboration with students from New Rochelle High School in New York.<\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>

Miguel Braceli’s works are site-specific participatory projects centered on education by reimagining different ways of learning while working collectively in public space. One can participate in the creative process accessing the social, political, and experiential realities of different places as Braceli transforms the city into a school. Students, teachers, and the community can continuously intervene in the realization of a unique and unrepeatable work of art. The approach to art from an educational standpoint makes the action of learning spread as a scenographic project of the human condition, as the territory becomes a classroom. Braceli’s work is based on the vast tradition of land art, happenings, and public art, but in his practice these works are re-dimensioned from a formative space.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Here Lies a Flag <\/em>is performed in parallel to the Parisian installation Arc de Triomphe<\/em> by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude who wrapped the emblematic icon in immense fabric while, on the other side of the Atlantic, Miguel Braceli, lowers the American flag from the flagpole at Davenport Park in New Rochelle, New York. The park became a scene transformed by a new flag, overflowing and without borders. A 400-meter linear white cloth became the subject of debate among more than 50 New Rochelle High School students. The artist begins a discussion on the \u201cuses and abuses of a flag,\u201d substituting nationalism for a humanistic approach to borders that overshadows the idea of \u200b\u200bnation. During the performance, the students organized among themselves to build a new territory and write their words freely on the canvas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Incorporating writing into the installation process Here lies a Flag<\/em> transformed the project into an assembly, to be performed as the mind and body work in synchronization. The act of lowering the flag, rolling it up, and taking it to a grave that was dug in the middle of this natural setting, between the mast and the shores of the sea, is the culmination of the performative installation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The act of burying a flag opens a poetical approach to the imagination of new possible geopolitics. This type of art modifies the perception that one could have of the public space as a work of visual art, playful and formative with critical intention. Braceli’s practice is a call to inclusion and reflection thanks to the staging of a series of elements that, although incongruous in appearance, are equally part of the final assembly of the work of art.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Here Lies a Flag<\/em> is a project that had the participation of students from New Rochelle High School, with whom the artist plans to continue to collaborate for the development of new works in the city. The intervention, currently unfinished, will culminate with a commemorative plaque as a tombstone in the same place where the flag was buried. As a site-specific piece, the phrase: HERE LIES A FLAG reads on the plaque in memory and record of one of the installation acts in Davenport Park.<\/p>\n<\/div>

One cannot escape the Beuyssian<\/em> connotations given the educational character that the professor of the Kunst Akademie in Dusseldorf gave to the installations and the photographs that were made of his performances. Photographs, aerial shots, and videos were taken at Braceli’s Davenport Park collective performance, autonomously existing in the creative process. The result of these visual \u201crelics\u201d derived from the installation will be displayed at various points in New Rochelle for the engagement with the community and preservation of the memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Matilde Daviu*<\/p>\n

*Matilde Daviu is a writer and professor currently visiting New Rochelle.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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PARA PUBLICACI\u00d3N INMEDIATA<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>ARTE PUBLICO EN DAVENPORT PARK, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

VAEA New Rochelle Arts, the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts\u00a0<\/strong>(VAEA), y New Rochelle Parks and Recreation presentaron el proyecto de arte p\u00fablico \u201cHere Lies a Flag\u201d por el artista venezolano Miguel Braceli<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Miguel Braceli presenta \u201cHere Lies a Flag\u201d en colaboraci\u00f3n con estudiantes de New Rochelle High School en Nueva York. <\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>

Las intervenciones de Miguel Braceli son obras de arte in-situ vinculadas a la acci\u00f3n colectiva que tienen como centro la educaci\u00f3n. Al repensar la forma de aprender desde el espacio p\u00fablico, se participa en el proceso creativo acerc\u00e1ndose a las distintas realidades sociales, pol\u00edticas, y vivenciales del lugar, transformando la ciudad en una escuela. Estudiantes, maestros y comunidades intervienen conjuntamente en la realizaci\u00f3n de una obra de arte \u00fanica e irrepetible. La aproximaci\u00f3n al arte desde la educaci\u00f3n hace que la acci\u00f3n de ense\u00f1ar se propague como proyecto escenogr\u00e1fico de la condici\u00f3n humana y el territorio se convierta en un aula de clase. La obra de Braceli se asienta en la vasta tradici\u00f3n de land art, happenings<\/em> y arte p\u00fablico, pero en su trabajo estas pr\u00e1cticas se redimensionan desde un espacio formativo.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\u201cHere Lies a Flag\u201d (Aqu\u00ed yace una bandera)<\/em>, se realiza casi en paralelo a la instalaci\u00f3n parisina de los artistas Christo y Jeanne-Claude en el Arco de Triunfo envuelto en una inmensa tela mientras que, al otro lado del Atl\u00e1ntico, Miguel Braceli, baja la bandera americana del m\u00e1stil de Davenport Park en New Rochelle, New York. El parque se convirti\u00f3 en un escenario transformado por una nueva bandera desbordada y sin fronteras. Una tela blanca de 400 metros lineales se convirti\u00f3 en objeto de debate entre m\u00e1s de 50 estudiantes de New Rochelle High School. El artista abre una reflexi\u00f3n sobre los \u201cusos y abusos de una bandera\u201d, sustituyendo los nacionalismos por una aproximaci\u00f3n humanista a las fronteras que problematiza la idea naci\u00f3n. Durante la performance, los estudiantes se organizaban entre ellos para construir un nuevo territorio y escribir sobre la tela sus palabras en libertad. Incorporar la escritura durante el proceso de la instalaci\u00f3n Aqu\u00ed yace una bandera<\/em> demuestra que toda palabra escrita est\u00e1 hecha para la visi\u00f3n. El viento al ondearla realizar\u00e1 a plenitud su propio juego. El acto de bajar la bandera, enrollarla y llevarla hasta una fosa cavada a mitad del escenario natural entre el m\u00e1stil y las orillas del mar para enterrarla, culmina el performance de la instalaci\u00f3n en s\u00ed misma.<\/p>\n<\/div>

El acto de enterrar una bandera abre nuevas po\u00e9ticas a la imaginaci\u00f3n de nuevas geopol\u00edticas posibles. Este tipo de arte modifica la percepci\u00f3n que uno pudiera tener del espacio p\u00fablico abierto en tanto obra de arte visual en tres dimensiones creadas con una intenci\u00f3n recreativa, formativa y cr\u00edtica. La practica de Braceli es un llamado a la inclusi\u00f3n y a la reflexi\u00f3n gracias a la puesta en escena de una serie de elementos que aun siendo incongruentes en apariencia, forman parte por igual del ensamblaje final de la obra de arte.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Aqu\u00ed yace una bandera<\/em> es un proyecto que empieza con la participaci\u00f3n de estudiantes del Liceo P\u00fablico de New Rochelle, con los que Miguel Braceli seguir\u00e1 trabajando para el desarrollo de nuevas obras en la ciudad. La intervenci\u00f3n, hasta ahora inconclusa, culminar\u00e1 con una placa conmemorativa a manera de l\u00e1pida en el mismo lugar donde se enterr\u00f3 la bandera. La frase: HERE LIES A FLAG reza en la placa en memoria y registro de uno de los actos de instalaci\u00f3n del proyecto de Arte P\u00fablico de Davenport Park en New Rochelle.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Uno no puede escapar de las connotaciones Beuyssianas <\/em>dado el car\u00e1cter educativo que el maestro de la Kunst Akademie de Dusseldorf le dio a las instalaciones y a las fotograf\u00edas que se hicieron de sus performances. En la instalaci\u00f3n de Braceli en Davenport Park se hicieron fotograf\u00edas, tomas a\u00e9reas, y videos participando de manera aut\u00f3noma en el proceso creativo. El resultado de estas \u201creliquias\u201d visuales derivadas de la instalaci\u00f3n \u201cHere Lies a Flag\u201d, ser\u00e1n exhibidas en varios puntos de New Rochelle para el encuentro con la comunidad y la preservaci\u00f3n de la memoria para la nueva escuela y la ciudad.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Matilde Daviu *<\/p>\n

*Matilde Daviu is a writer and professor currently visiting New Rochelle.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Here Lies a Flag<\/i>. Miguel Braceli in collaboration with students\u00a0from New Rochelle High School. Artist-in-Residency at VAEA New Rochelle, NY. 2021\u00a0\u00a9 Miguel Braceli<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>
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