{"uid":"8zZvfg52X6MtYV8Q","type":"artist","tags":["instalation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Ant Farm Buenos Aires","summary":"ANT FARM BUENOS AIRES\nparticipatory performance and installation\n\nI will build a large scale multi-colored map of the city of Buenos Aires made of translucent \u2018agar-agar\u2019 \u2013 a vegetarian gelatin substitute, combined with sugar, food coloring, tea tree oil, weeds, soil, black ants, and Fernet. The installation functions as an ant farm with the agar-agar serving both as habitat and nutrition for the ants. This allows the viewer to watch the ants turn the map into a colony around which they organize their lifecycle. The agar-agar is cooked on site and upon the successful completion of \u2018Ant Farm Buenos Aires\u2019 \u2013 the installation will succumb to the process of decay.\n\nThis project is inspired by \u2018Ant Farm Lagos\u2019 commissioned by the 2019 Lagos Biennial in Nigeria and goes back to an \u2018ArtSchool Palestine\u2019 residency.  In Nablus I mapped remnants of \u2018inverse geometry\u2019, a so-called \u2018high concept spatial technique\u2019 used by the Israeli Defense Forces in their 2002 offensive against the Palestinian resistance, and described by Eyal Weizman in his \u2018Walking Through Walls.\u2019 \n\nFor BIENALSUR, I will center my research around \u2018Desire Lines and Defensive Architecture in Modern Urban Environments\u2019 a recent paper by Naomi Smith and Peter Walters in which they introduce the concept of \u2018desire lines\u2019 as a means of overcoming or re-imagining defensive architecture which serves to \u2018discipline\u2019 city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city.","space":"The on site participatory cooking of the agar-agar is an integral part of the project.  I need about a week for this. The ants are harvested locally using sugar-traps.  \n\nI am currently thinking of a map of Buenos Aires of about 300 x 300 cm placed flat on a table\nor trestles. \n\nThe gel and the ants attract insects and other vermin. This must be taken into account when\nchoosing the location.  Semi outdoor-indoor is ideal; in any case protected from direct rain.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":7,"names":"Tom","surname":"Bogaert","email":"tombogaert.studio904@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"EN784015","address":"Via Olona 7","city":"Rome","nacionality":"Belgium","country_id":"113","birthdate":"1966-11-03T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1966-11-03T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+39 366 597 6995","web":"https:\/\/www.tombogaert.org"}