haudenschildGarage, Spare Parts Presents A Crime Has Many Stories - The shortest distance between two points is never a straight line :: November 29, 2008 :: Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A multidisciplinary, one-day event with Ricardo Piglia, Washington Cucurto, Roberto Jacoby, Fernanda Laguna, Rosalba Mirabella, Eloisa Haudenschild, Steve Fagin, Alejandro Ruiz, Monica Jovanovich, Judi Werthein, Sonia Becce & Eloisa Cartonera. The goal of this project is to generate a dynamic event that works across literature, art and the city. Our hope, by joining artists from the 60s with young artists of the present and crossing the boundary of literature and fine art, is to “perform” the continuity and range of Argentine cultures at its strongest. We feel that the role of South America and Argentina in general has been greatly underestimated on the world stage and we hope this event, in its modest way, will support the growing awareness of the quality and specificity of Argentina’s historical and current contributions to world culture.

A Crime Has Many Stories is an exquisite corpse project set in Buenos Aires. It is based on Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia’s short story, La Loca y el Relato del Crimen (Madwoman and the Story of a Crime, 1975). Piglia’s text generated a commissioned story, El Hijo, by Argentine writer Washington Cucurto and two site-specific pieces Donaciones by Roberto Jacoby & Fernanda Lagunda and La Despedida Escrita en el Espejo by Rosalba Mirabella.

The extravaganza will begin with a video of Ricardo Piglia’s elegant interpretation of his own text performed especially for our event and premiered at Malba - Fundación Costantini (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires).

We will travel from the opening reception at Malba - Fundación Costantini to the closing party in La Boca by way of the projects of Jacoby, Laguna and Mirabella in a movable feast of culture and repast.

The climax of our extravaganza will be the inaugural performance of Cucurto’s savagely brilliant short story, commissioned by the haudenschildGarage. Cucurto and the literary collective Eloisa Cartonera will do an ensemble reading of the story at their space in La Boca. A catalog of the entire project and a limited edition Survival Kit that will be provided to the audience at Malba to facilitate their journey will be produced in collaboration with Eloisa Cartonera. Monica Jovanovich will be making daily entries on the haudenschildGarage’s blog.

The haudenschildGarage, Spare Parts Projects, conceptualized, commissioned and produced by Eloisa Haudenschild and Steve Fagin, are a renewable 3-year cycle that encourages the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane. Our current cycle of projects also includes Decolonizing Architecture in Palestine/Israel and The Last Book in the US.

The haudenschildGarage is a cultural platform that stands somewhere between a salon and an alternative space, the goal of which is to be a home away from home for cultural experimentation, play and conversation. It routinely presents symposia, lectures and film screenings to the public. Whether international projects, dialogs or commissions, the haudenschildGarage collaborates with international institutions, alternative spaces and emerging artists in a permissive context for opinion and production.

Please visit the haudenschildGarage website and blog for more information.

EVENT SCHEDULE
4pm – 5:30pm, Malba - Fundación Costantini
Video of author Ricardo Piglia reading his story La Loca y el Relato del Crimen (1975) in the auditorium.

6pm - 7pm, Space on Avenida Colon
Artist Rosalba Mirabella will be thinking, writing and drawing a crime during her two month voluntary incarceration in a room in Buenos Aires.

7:30pm - 8:30pm, Museo de Calcos
Copies end up having real results with Fernanda Laguna and Roberto Jacoby’s project. Through the dexterity of a series of objets d’art being bequeathed, the passage of the seeming same leads to a world of difference.

9:00pm -12:00am, Eloisa Cartonera, La Boca
El Hijo, by author Washington Cucurto, will be performed by the collective at Eloisa Cartonera’s La Boca workshop followed by a closing party.