Poética de la necesidad – Ernesto Oroza para Coloquio de An-Arqueología de los Medios
Esta charla versa sobre la investigación en diseño, y su pedagogía, cuando peor están las cosas
Repairability as a Condition of the World: Ernesto Oroza’s Archive of Dis/repair – By Lucy Benjamin
Theory, Culture & Society Benjamin, L. (2023). Repairability as a Condition of the World: Ernesto Oroza’s Archive of Dis/repair. Theory, Culture & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231204858 “In an age of apparent disrepair as the climate crisis takes hold and neoliberalism fails to liberate, as the cost of living rises and rights…
Rikimbili as prop
Sheet printed in gradients from red to blue, transiting through yellow. This sheet (25 “x18.5”) is produced in government printing presses, outside working hours. It is usually sold in stores for popular creators located in Havana City, at a price of 5 Cuban pesos each. It is used to cover…
Protected: On documentation of research @ ENSAD_Nov-2023
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Efficiency (after Papanek) presents Julio Llópiz-Casal
We are pleased, in this fifth iteration of Efficiency (after Papanek), to present the works of the artist and designer Julio Llópiz-Casal. The exhibition of Julio Llópiz-Casal’s Caja China in Efficiency (after Papernak) takes place within the frame of the exhibition Alibi, organized by the Forma Foco collective and ENTRE for the exhibition On the new. Viennese Scenes and Beyond at Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art.
Poética de la necesidad: Reparación, reúso, repentismo.
Esta charla versa sobre la investigación en diseño, y su pedagogía, cuando peor están las cosas.
Rikimbili as anagram
download pdf here: rikimbili-as-anagram “To understand that new needs demand the emergence of new productive protocols, new ways of speaking and doing. New conveyor belts are needed with new mounting sequences. The rikimbili as the new conveyor belt. That sounds better. Surely the opposite—a rikimbili made with the motor from a conveyor belt—already exists…
Factographie des brocantes à Cognac @ Almanach – Fondation d’Entreprise Martell
Factographie des brocantes à Cognac Notes on a research residency at the Martell Foundation, as part of the exhibition Almanach. Ernesto Oroza, July 2023 “If the film you are about to see seems enigmatic to you, life is enigmatic too. The author declares that he did not want to play with…
Résidence – Fondation d’Entreprise Martell – 2023
Ernesto Oroza est le premier invité des résidences Almanach. Artiste, designer et chercheur cubain, il s’intéresse notamment aux “architectures de la nécessité” et à la désobéissance technologique, ainsi qu’à d’autres sujets qui lient le design et la société en temps de crise économique et politique. Il produit et distribue des…
Blender garment pattern: Fin, pero no es el fin
Blender garment pattern: Fin pero no es el fin Digital printing on polyester. Pattern ready to cut and sew. Telarte patterns by Tomas Sanchez, Arturo Cuenca and Tonel. Dimensions: 70cm x 70cm Edition of 100. Numbered and signed. 150.00 euros To purchase this item, go to https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/TextosMoireStore and send the amount of…
Blender garment pattern: Los De Arriba y Los De Abajo
Blender garment pattern: Los De Arriba y Los De Abajo Digital printing on polyester. Pattern ready to cut and sew. Telarte patterns by Tomas Sanchez, Arturo Cuenca and Tonel. Dimensions: 70cm x 70cm Edition of 100. Numbered and signed. 150.00 euros To purchase this item, go to https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/TextosMoireStore and send the…
“It was Always About You…” @ Oolite Arts
Oolite Arts’ “It was Always About You…” is an intimate celebration of a community of artists who have had a significant relationship with Oolite Arts over the course of its four decade history on Lincoln Road. Shepherded by a ceramic work from Oolite’s late founder Ellie Schneiderman, this show is…
Techno-disobedience @ Constant – Brussels 2023
Technological disobedience talk at Techno-disobedience worksession Organized by Imane Benyecif and Martino Morandi, among others, at Constant https://constantvzw.org/site/-Techno-desobeissance,246-.html?lang=en
Arquitectura comodín
Arquitectura de la necesidad – rikimbiligao Esta charla versa sobre la potencialidad política de la arquitectura comodín, placeholder, vicaria, o proxy. Tomando como punto de partida las transformaciones realizadas a las viviendas por sus habitantes—definidas en esta investigación como arquitectura de la necesidad—, esta tesis indaga sobre las cuestiones que…
100 artistes & designers se mobilisent pour l’ésad Valenciennes
100 artistes & designers se mobilisent pour l’ésad Valenciennes, à travers une exposition-évènement du 5 au 20 janvier 2023. Ils et elles sont enseignants et étudiants à l’ésad Valenciennes ou l’ont été, Ils et elles sont venus y partager leur savoir au travers de conférences, de workshops, d’ateliers… Ils et…
Repair as rupture lll
Reparación como ruptura III :-), 2022 (scroll down for english version)
Una funda de batidora es una tipología contemporánea de objeto. En este sentido, no es distinta de la batidora que cubre.
The blender cover is a contemporary object typology. In this sense, it is no different from the blender it covers.
RENCONTRE AVEC ERNESTO OROZA @Artagon Marseille
RENCONTRE AVEC ERNESTO OROZA Artiste, designer et chercheur 08/12/2022 – 18h30 Artagon Marseille 13 boulevard Jean Bouin, 13014 Marseille © F. Roure Ernesto Oroza est un artiste, designer et chercheur cubain. Diplômé de l’Institut Supérieur de Design de La Havane, il est responsable du 3e cycle Design et Recherche à…
CORRECTED CHAIRS Workshop at MAGICAL HACKERISM_Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
WORKSHOP 08.–09.10.2022 WITH Ernesto Oroza LANGUAGE English OPEN CALL The workshop is open to all but has limited capacity. If you are interested to join us, kindly register until 06.10.2022 with the subject line “Corrected Chairs” at workshop@savvy-contemporary.com Within the frequencies of our ongoing project MAGICAL HACKERISM, we warmly invite you to join us for a workshop…
Critical Jugaad Ontologies – Practices for a Just Future – Deepa Butoliya (p.44)
There is a different tradition in design that we have learned to know through the application of ethnography, anthropology, natural studies, climate studies and the study of complex social relations. This tradition flows like a river underground and occasionally rises to the surface carrying with it profound results that help…
Plaza Instar – Instar @ documenta fifteen
Provisional bench and corrected chairs for Plaza Instar, documenta fifteen, 2022. Seats made to host the program of events organized by the International Institute of Artivism Hannah Arendt at documenta fifteen, Kassel. The murals at Plaza Instar by Carlos Rodriguez Cardenas and Hamlet Lavastida. Metal school chairs, monobloc plastic chairs,…
Notes on a vector chair
He aquí un ejemplo de la actitud recurrente ante la degradación material de Cuba. Acostumbrados a reparar los objetos del hogar, algunos individuos comienzan a modificarlos antes de que se rompan. Partiendo de un conocimiento de los puntos débiles de la silla plástica conocida como monobloc, algunos han optado por…
Within the Revolution, Everything @ Shift Space 2.0 – Edited by Natalia Zuluaga
This text discusses three spontaneous computer-based protocols that took shape and became systematized in Cuba over the last twenty years. It is about digital practices that question, update, or crack the cultural politics of the Cuban Revolution. The three practices — and these have antecedents in past decades and prior productive processes — are popularly known as the Paquete Semanal (The Weekly Package), SNet(Street Net, aka The Republic of Gamers), and Revolico.
Towards anarchist design. An interview with Ernesto Oroza and Olivier Peyricot
Emanuel Quinz : Towards anarchist design. An interview with Ernesto Oroza and Olivier RADDAR N°3, 2021 | 2021 politiques du design | design politics https://www.citedudesign.com/fr/a/raddar-3-politiques-du-design-pour-un-design-anarchiste–2008 “Une anthropologie anarchiste, entendue comme un “discours éthique sur une pratique révolutionnaire”, exigerait une relation différente entre l’intellectuel et le peuple ; une relation inclusive et non élitiste. Elle…
Dancing with a document. Tactical display (after Andy). À L’INTÉRIEUR DE LA PRODUCTION
This dance class is designed around a propaedeutic object. Visitors, following the instructions they receive on site, will be able to learn, or practice, a type of dance common on the island of Cuba. The object used to learn to dance is at the same time an exhibition of costumes designed to accompany various activities during the biennial.
A’l interieur de la production – Organized by Ernesto Oroza & Le CyDRe
À L’INTÉRIEUR DE LA PRODUCTION International Design Biennial of Saint-Étienne. April 6th to July 31, 2022 http://lecydre.space/ CyDRe: 3rd Cycle of the École Supérieure d’art et design Saint-Étienne: Delphine Hyvrier, Inès Le Menec, Lola Hen, Corentin Brule, Charlotte Goffette, Zoe Colliot, Karolina Borkowska, Alex Delbos-Gomez, Jade Herbert, Laura Ego, Samantha…
Anyone can design, even designers
Anyone Can Design, Even Designers In Collaboration with: Institut Francais d’Indonesie (IFI), Cité du design Saint-Étienne, École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne | Speakers: Ernesto Oroza | Moderator: Yap Saubin
Common Space
Group exhibition curated by Sally Eaves Hughes (@sallyeaveshughes), which will open @oolitearts 924 gallery on Oct. 20, 2021. “Common Space” features work by artists based in New York, Chicago and Miami and will present site-specific installations and activations throughout the duration of the exhibition for viewer participation and engagement. Bethany…
Ruptura II (juntas)
Ruptura II (juntas) is an archive of spare parts manufactured in Cuban houses (specifically, rubber gaskets for pressure cookers.) Each rubber sealing ring is attached and handled by a homemade hand puppet, commercialized in the city. I collected the puppets and the spare parts in Havana.
Revolico. Provisional Epilogue III (Rikimbili)
Revolico. Provisional Epilogue III (Rikimbili) “It has nothing to do with a technical renovation of language, but rather of its mobilization in the service of the struggle or work; in any case, in the service of the modification of reality and not its description.” – Walter Benjamin “We should learn…
Repentista Manifesto
Repentista Manifesto (fragments) Ernesto Oroza, 2020 Since this is a moment of irruption, an entrance, I’m going to take advantage of it to throw, suddenly, into the center of this text and this event my early notes on the Repentista Manifesto. I borrow the term (repentista) from a long-standing rural…
Archivo Anomico_Inglés PDF
ArchivoAnomico_Ingles_pdf-1 Archivo and Reuse on page 120 More info: https://redcsur.net/2021/01/20/archives-of-the-commons-iithe-anomic-archive/
Reuse @ AIM Biennial – Miami
You must understand this text as a set of instructions, but the first thing I advise is that you not follow them. Many times, as we see in manuals, we forget that places and needs are always diverse. What I am proposing (you not follow to the T) here are…
FAU in Prose
FAU in Prose ′′ Architectures of Need and Technologies of Disobedience ′′ 30/11/2020 Monday at 17 pm on FAU-Usp youtube Monday the 30/11th the Teacher Giselle Beiguelman-@gbeiguelman-receives Ernesto Oroza, Cuban artist and designer, also Teacher of the School of Art and Design of Saint Étienne. Prose will revolve around…
Visiones sobre el rol social del diseño – Compilado por Mariana Pittaluga -2020
Libro: Visiones sobre el rol social del diseño Compilado por Mariana Pittaluga para Wolkowicz Editores, Argentina, 2020.
Four Entrances to a Yanira Collado Exhibit. Ernesto Oroza, 2020
Four Entrances to a Yanira Collado Exhibit Ernesto Oroza, 2020 I’m going to begin a poem. The page is blank. Everything—anything—could be written. The poem doesn’t exist. The page is blank and I’m going to begin writing. What am I going to write? I don’t know. Anything can be written.…
drawn: concept & craft
drawn: concept & craftEXHIBITION COMING AUGUST 2020 SECCA proudly presents DRAWN: Concept & Craft, an expansive exhibition featuring more than 200 works by a wide array of artists including LeRoy Neiman, Kara Walker, Fab 5 Freddy, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze and Buckminster Fuller. DRAWN brings together the diverse works of…
Contro l’oggetto, contro il design Un’intervista a Emanuele Quinz, storico dell’arte e curatore – Giacomo Giossi
Contro l’oggetto (Quodlibet) chiama a raccolta attraverso una serie di conversazioni alcune tre le voci più influenti e radicali del design contemporaneo, come anche della critica e della storia del design.
Viral Self-Portraits
Viral Self-Portraits Online exhibition – Moderna galerija in Ljubljana 15 May – 31 December 2020Info: http://www.mg-lj.si/en/online-exhibitions/2888/viral-portraits/ Concept Zdenka Badovinac Curators selectors Afiaty Riksa, Zdenka Badovinac, Ekaterina Degot, Tandazani Dhlakama, Galit Eilat, Charles Esche, iLiana Fokianaki, Boris Groys, Hou Hanru, Vít Havránek, Koyo Kouoh, Pablo Lafuente, Tammy Langtry, Maria Lind, Nataša…
Liebesgrüße aus Havanna
Liebesgrüße aus Havanna Zeitgenössische kubanische Kunst im internationalen Kontext Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim 12. Februar bis 14. Juni 2020 Der Titel verweist auf jenen James-Bond-Klassiker, der kurz nach der Kuba-Krise im Kalten Krieg gedreht wurde. Bis heute beziehen sich bedeutende Teile der kubanischen Kunst auf die besondere Geschichte und…
10 de 500. La cuadratura del círculo
10 de 500. La cuadratura del círculoFactoría HabanaInauguración: Viernes 7 de febrero a las 8pmClausura: 18 de abril 2020 La cuadratura del círculo: enigma matemático, obsesión de pensadores y artistas desde Anaxágoras a Leonardo, convertido en símbolo de la búsqueda perpetua, la dificultad extrema, la persecución de una quimera o el afán…