The Ses Dotze Naus Foundation presents this weekend a new workshop, ‘Reimagining the Instant City: New Architectures for Contemporary Art’, as part of its program of public activities at La Carpintería. The proposal is the result of the research carried out by curator and researcher Raquel Victoria, selected in the first edition of a research residency program aimed at visual artists, curators and researchers from Mallorca, Menorca and Formentera. The workshop aims to develop experimental proposals inspired by the Instant City project , created during the VII Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), held in Cala de San Miguel from 14 to 16 October 1971.
This case represents a key turning point in the understanding of the relationship between art, architecture and experimental design , challenging the paradigms of conventional exhibition spaces.
Workshop ‘Reimagining the Instant City’.
Thus, through a combination of theoretical and theoretical and practical work, participants will explore alternatives to the white cube as the dominant model in the art and experiment with new forms of exhibition design and collaborative creation.
The workshop is aimed at artists, curators, architects, designers, students and the public interested in the relationship between art, space and community.
Interested parties can register by emailing info@ses12naus.org.
The activity is priced at 10 euros.
About ‘Instant City
The Instant City was a social and architectural experiment, designed as an unprecedented ephemeral city.
The project was carried out within the framework of the ICSID congress, an event that brought together designers, architects and artists from all over the world. This experiment stood out for its collective and participatory approach, where attendees built a pneumatic city using 15,000 m² of polyvinyl chloride, a million staples and basic technical knowledge offered by a group of young architects. It was organized in flexible modules interconnected through a system of ventilation and overpressure, generating an initially geometric structure, which over time was adapted and transformed as the inhabitants designed new configurations, in a clear experimentation exercise on the possibilities of space. During her residency at Ses12naus, Raquel Victoria intends not only to deepen her research on new architectural and curatorial forms within the framework of her PhD, but also to contribute through discussions on ephemeral and collaborative exhibition spaces, including the workshop ‘Reimagining the Instant City’., which will also be the last public activity of 2024 proposed by the foundation.
About Raquel Victoria
Raquel Victoria (Palma de Mallorca, 1998) is a contemporary art curator and researcher. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Granada, where she focuses her research on the physical and conceptual structure of the white cube in contemporary art. She graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Granada, where she specialized in in artistic production, cultural management and curatorial work. She later obtained a Master’s degree in Art Production and Research.
In 2021 he co-founded the cultural management association La Constructora and created and coordinated the Festival Al Liquindoi: Sonido Relativo. She has been a member of several research groups and has received several grants, including one from the Plan Propio de Investigación y Transferencia of the University of Granada. She has also worked as art coordinator and manager for cultural institutions such as Collaborations DK and CCA Andratx, both in Mallorca.
During his professional career, he has curated several exhibitions, among them The Softnessen Kunsthalle – CCA Andratx, The bliss of ignorance by Stefan Rinck and Philip Grözinger, and Concrete curtains by Xenia Lesniewski at La Misericòrdia, Consell de Mallorca, all in 2024. In 2023 she was curator of Dystopian archaeologies. Exploring the vestiges of a future past by Stefan Rinck and Trine Søndergard at La Misericòrdia, Consell de Mallorca, among others, and has been selected to curate an exhibition at the Museu d’Art Contemporani Es Baluard in 2025.
Ses Dotze Naus Foundation
Ses12naus promotes contemporary creation in Ibiza through artistic residencies, exhibitions and public programs. Since 2016, it promotes various initiatives that generate new dialogues between contemporary creation and the context of the island, to generate new narratives and provide new perspectives that feed critical thinking and inspire residents and visitors.
Ses12naus begins a new stage in 2022 with the constitution of the Ses Dotze Naus Foundation and the opening of the first creation center in Ibiza, La Carpintería, from where new lines of work and research are promoted with actions of different intensity, scope and temporality. In this period, the foundation has held five residency programs that have concluded five exhibitions at La Carpintería, around which more than 20 public activities and 10 educational activities have been carried out. More than 40 artists, curators and other local, national and international agents have participated in this program.
In 2023, the foundation was one of the three driving entities of Xarxa RESIB, the first network of creation centers in the Balearic Islands, and is part of its board of directors. RESIB currently has 15 centers and cooperates with other networks in the Euroregion. Likewise, since 2023 the Foundation has the support of the Balearic Government through the grants of the Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics aimed at creative centers.
