VOLT

The new Volt bar opened on 2 March, designed with neon artist Kleber Matheus.



Kleber (centre) with video artist Ed Andrade (left) and Yassin Lahmar

PURR

Purr is a bookshop / gallery by Marina Alessio providing a platform for international artists and new fanzines.

ART, FOOD AND WATER

A live interactive installation at a major gallery in Santiago. A kitchen feeds the onsite community, with produce from a garden in the grounds, and a water tower constructed in the main hall.



The artists explain the project

AT HOME WITH CARLA AND FRANCISCA

Artists Carla Verea and Francisca Rivero-Lake were my hosts and guides to Mexico City. They work together and individually on projects that often have a strong relationship to architecture and space. Carla's photography of Guatemalan bodyguards has been exhibited internationally, and her recent commission of Barragan's Mexico City apartment buildings is part of the current Barragan show. Francisca's site-specific sound art project, Sound Oasis / Oasis Sonoro, is created in response to urban spaces and situations.



Guatemalan bodyguards

Inside Carla's photography studio

LUCIANO MATUS

Artist Luciano Matus was trained as an architect and has been producing work that reveals the possibilities of spaces. He has a major installation planned for Mexico City at the end of 2009, and has also been commissioned to design his first house. The photos are from his publication that documents a recent project that involved interventions in historical buildings and public spaces in Antigua, Guatemala; Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; Lima and Cusco, Peru; and in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay.