57Kb hola todos! Liliana, Diana Z., Alejandro, Daniel, Julian, Diana G., Lina, Ricardo, Victor, David, Paola and Paula from the colombian shore! hola Juan, Cristina, Eva, Natalia and omi from the european one! we are all artists..except David..he’s a historian.. Natalia who was and partly is the art teacher of all the Medellin artists started to work with them already a year ago..”the bridge”. . ‘..what bridges we want to investigate or build knowing that Juan, Cristina, Eva and omi are comming with the intention to develop and set up a bridge for communication.. for exchange..a bridge where projects can be discussed, presented, found..?! Natalia maybe asked them 12 months ago..everybody presents his project..one after the other.. wow, we are surprised, there are so many good starting points! but to cut a long story short > they are all (t)here: www.orilla-orilla.net .. Key writes an e-mail..the first e-mail omi reads in Colombia: Maria Merz, our Torino neighbour, died..some days ago.. we left Torino and he left the world..ciao Mario, thanks for the numbers, the lights and igloos.. now, after knowing what each one is planing to show in one week (when we want to open the gallery resp. the workshop to the public..) we are all going to Santa Helena.. up to the mountains where Natalia and her boyfriend Ricardo have a house! 54Kb it rains on the pass..and there are these red phone - shells everywhere..it starts in the suburbs..every 500 meter there is one..thousends..Ricardo tell us that they are all for free..this phones got robed so many times that it was cheaper to let people make local calls for free than to repare them all the time.. 35Kb it goes so well!..doing a big brainstorm..finding a lot of ideas together..que chimba! how great to be here, how great to be with you all! this will be a good bridge! 33Kb its all full of flowers here..flowers Eva and omi never saw.. we cook on the fire outside..its always spring here they say.. and war..everybody talks about heaven and hell..we are in heaven and in hell! 32Kb after 50 years of left extreme and right extreme terror we hear from everybody the same..BASTA YA! we have other ways of dealing with problems..yes injustice is still outrageous.. but the industry of guerilla- and paramilitary violence must stop..but how? 36Kb ..we have to find ideas and ways to invent peace.. who is not rich enough yet, who not poor enough? this country could be wealthy only from exporting flowers and fruits.. 39Kb the world seen from Colombia makes very helpless, pessimistic..and then optimistic, sanguine..just by looking at a flower..or listening to this young people..to the sound of their bridges..how they want art to be responsable.. and social..and yes, transformative.. 47Kb back in Medellin we have all our hands full of work! we decided and started so many things already!: that we want to draw a huge map of Medellin..over three walls, also the map of Colombia and the map of europe we start to project and draw.. 36Kb we won’t show products but processes..starting points, first conceptual pilars of different bridges..for geografia affettiva its too early here..only two of them are using a mobile phone..still very expansive..but just a questions of few years..or we do it phoneless in the beginnig and manage everything via the website..? lets have a Jugo (fresh fruit drink..) up in the 10th floor restaurant.. 51Kb but lets start analog for now..like a geografia afffettiva analogica..we want to to tense fine threads from where projects started..indicating it on the map and span the threads all over to a “zoom” > the enlarged spot of it – and to present near those zooms the projects.. the processes.. we stop for some hours..omi is invited to talk about c a l c ..en la universidad de antioquia ..3, 4 hours again.. the little history of art again..some projects..dialog in a circle and dialog in a net..responsibilty in circles, re-sponding in nets..good talks, everybody so awake here! thanx everybody, thanks Evita! at the same time Teresa, l°°ks and You..in Europe..are thinking what to show in Captown..remember? this “paradise exhibition”.. we don’t know what we have to do with “paradise” or “utopia”..we are just trying to propose and do small changes..we feel like the elephants in the paradise- shop..but we’ll show something there..okay Karin (Frei – curator..)! although there is no money to bring us there, only very little to develop something..we’ll.. we meet online..a park for L.A. says Miss Pi..we never showed the images we sent to the printer in Linz..okay lets play with the question how these images could move something..in Captown and in L.A..