Agoraphobia
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler
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From the series Time Divisa (Time Currency). 2006 - 2012
(see the particular works on the next pages)
Time Divisa is a project that explores the possibility of replacing money with a time-sharing system based on the exchange of specific time periods where different tasks are done. It consists of 365 individual exchanges with inmates at the Santa Martha Acatitla prison in Mexico City. On a specific, mutually agreed upon day and time, tasks are undertaken simultaneously. Each party performs a task requested by the other. The documentation of each task is the currency.
Macotela documents the tasks he undertakes for each prisoner as audio or video recordings, while the inmates draw and/or produce certain objects. The time exchanges are classified according to the specific tasks the artist asks the inmates to perform. He considers the outcomes of each time exchange as individual artworks. While he presents the objects produced by the inmates as his because they are the result of their time exchanges, he chooses not to present documentation of the tasks he performs for them because they represent the time that belongs to them.
(From the handout of Agoraphobia)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler