Público/privado: el arte como heterotopía en el espacio cotidiano e íntimo

Abstract

Public/Private: interventions into the Pachuca’s downtown houses, is an art project that we made in 2007. Pachuca is a small city about an hour away from México City. Face to face with this metropolis, Pachuca has limited formal spaces to make expositions and improve in a formal way the Visual Arts. The soccer museum is now the place where is supposed to be a contemporary art museum, this situation is a clearly effect about the culture that our government wants to our town. Facing the situation we decided to make about six interventions inside of living spaces in downtown, protesting about this fact that is affecting our culture we are looking for new viewers and present new works of art that are made of unconventional material by self-managed artists. That does not necessarily require the cultural government support.
In this paper, we are going to analyze the relationship between public space and private space as well as the related concepts with the space as an individual or collective experience: heterotopy by Michael Foucault and topology by Gaston Bachelard. Subsequently, we will link these ideas with site specific and social environment projects where the work is out of museums. Finally, we fuse this analysis to our project Public/private. All this in order to answer: What kind of artistic productions are viable alternatives in cities with a precarious and conservative infrastructure for the promotion and diffusion of Visual Arts?