#180creativecamp

A text I wrote about 180 Creative Camp 2017, in Abrantes. An event hosted by Canal180 that gathers many young creatives in a remote city of Portugal. 

Frank Kalero is one of the confirmed artists on the next edition of 180 Creative Camp.

But, who is Frank Kalero?

Frank Kalero is establishing himself as an important photography curator, being the person in charge of many different festivals as the GoaPhoto, in India, the PhotoQuai, in Paris or the Getxo Photo, in Spain. In every place that he visited (Spain, India, Germany, Brazil) he published many important photography magazines (like the OjodePez or Punctum), also, he was responsible for the creation of Invaliden1 Galerie, in Berlin, along with the art magazine The World According To. (Uff!)

Recently, he created “Screen”, which aims to be a lab that “produces and distributes stories using the languages of documentary, journalism, film and art. They work across platforms to connect wide audiences with compelling subjects.”

He arrives at Abrantes in July, and now, during the third week of May, he will travel to Bolivia to shoot a documentary about Freddy Mamani, a Bolivian architect that works in a very peculiar way, to say the least.

"I want you to go there because" is an art intervention done in Abrantes, PT within Store Art Attack (180 Creative Camp). The action had its opening on 9th July 2015 in two traditional stores in the historic centre of the city: Restaurante O Pelicano and Restaurante Santa Isabel. The project is ongoing so you can still visit these places mentioned above and participate. We propose action based on interchanging the postcards between unknown people. We invite people to enter in a kind of game: fill in one postcard and take another one already filled in by another person. Select a place on the map and write down the explanation. Our project proposes to give people a good reason to stop, sit at the table, smell coffee and think about the city in a different way. We ask people (locals and tourists) a simple question: where and why you want people to go in Abrantes? We want people to share their impressions, feelings and hints linked to these less obvious and more hidden city layers: soundscape, smellscape, tastescape, touchscape and memoryscape among others. Our action aims to involve people into dialogue about the city. In the context of everyday rush, rarely we have enough time to stop and observe, listen, smell and touch the city. We think that making more use of our ears, noses, hands and even whole bodies, we can explore our nearest surroundings differently. Exploring textures, temperatures, forms, sounds, smells of our cities, we can feed our imagination, give ourselves exclusive possibility to stop, disconnect, reflect and finally better understand our city. Rediscover it and fall in love with it. With its nuances.

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Restaurante O Pelicano: https://goo.gl/maps/UeGVB