NO HAY OBRA, HAY TALLER.; Yara Almoina [and others]

Puebla: Cabeza Prusia; Profética, Casa de la Lectura, 2010. b/w plates, plans, bibliographical references (pages 95-99), fldg. wrps., translucent rice paper d.j. + 1 DVD, inserted in platic envelope, tipped-in in verso flap. Profética Casa de la Lectura is a private, non-profit civil association established in 2003 in the cityy of Puebla .The art and writing workshop has been seen in general as a more or less limited space, the place where a person works in what possibly most singles him out. Undoubtedly there is this sometimes-decisive relationship with the room, the study, the attic, the basement, the cubicle, and perhaps even more so with the most immediate objects to the touch: the table, the pencil, the paint canister, the test sheets, the ashtray. Thus, the workshop is conceived as the appropriate and often even generating- field of work. The work is then a goal of the activity, a destination already utopian or attainable but that in any case is presented as an otherness in relation to the medium that allows it to emerge. The workshop would thus be the place of the process, concerning only the producer, a theater of events that is hidden as soon as the work is finished and that, in the work itself, can if anything be guessed as a ghostly presence. What happens, however, when the work process not only inscribes its traces in the final result, but expands to appear as something much more significant or stimulating than a mere vehicle, a private mediation?. CONTENTS: Un pueblo del cansancio: notas sobre El Taller / Gabriel Wolfson -- LÍNEA -- La línea / Marcelo Gauchat, Horacio Berra -- ESTUDIO -- Laboratorio casa / Alejandro Hernández -- Una revista, un taller / Nicolás Cabral -- Yo soy mi taller / Gianni Capitani -- Refugio / Gabriel Wolfson -- CUERPO -- Barro / Yara Almoina -- Nosotros y el diablo / Gianni Capitani -- HERRAMIENTA -- El Taller del Lector / Juan Antonio Montiel -- ADDENDA. Includes DVD "Yo soy mi taller" / Gianni Capitani. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.