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How did it feel?

This was definitely a very unique experience since I had the opportunity to go around my city and appreciating the street art I found. I always saw the urban art in Cali in a really superficial way, but this time it was different since I took the time of analysing it and observing it in a detailed way, even going under bridges and to places I had never visit before. I must confess I didn't know my city had so much street art all around and I’m glad I took the time to do this.

ATL skills:

  • Make inferences and draw conclusions.

  • Consider all alternatives.

  • Interpret non-verbal communication techniques and use them purposefully

  • Make intuitive judgments.

  • Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.

  • Demonstrate persistence.

  • Practice strategies to reduce stress and anxiety.

Interview with Repso:

ATL skills:

  • Identify problems and develop aims, goals and objectives.

  • Consider ideas from other perspectives and points of view.

  • Find and select information via different media.

  • Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks.

  • Identify different points of view.

  • Reference accurately and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions.

 

Bibliography:

 

  • "Repso". (2015, March 22). Street art [Personal interview].

     

II bienal muralismo Cali:

The “Bienal Internacional de Muralismo y Arte Público” is an event that the “Museo Libre de Arte Público” from Colombia does biannually. It takes place in Cali, Colombia, lasts 10 days, and here urban artworks are done simultaneously in different places of the city. It has a tourist and social purpose, since it is intended that through the creation of murals, conferences, and exhibitions (which are free and public), all sectors, institutions, and communities will integrate. For this event near 70 national and international artists participate, representing various art styles from their own different continents. These works are donated by the artists to the “Museo Libre de Arte Público” in order to make Cali a museum open to everyone. The museum said "We don’t bring people to the museum, we bring the museum to the people."

 

This initiative goes along with the development plan of 2012 -2015 for Cali, where it is intended that through public art and the enrichment of cultural heritage, citizens will get involved in the construction of a diverse and multicultural city.

 

The main objective is:

 

·      The enhancement of the city and making it more beautiful.

 

The specific objectives:

 

·      Increase national heritage.

·      Promotion of artistic human capital in Colombia.

·      Making Cali the world´s headquarter of the international network of murals and public art.

·      Promoting social inclusion through the “open-sky museum”.

·      Create spaces where artists have the opportunity to expand their knowledge by learning from other artists and their techniques.

·      Building social inclusion by art.

·      Developing new audiences for the arts.

·      Expanding cultural tourism in Cali through the “Museo Libre de Arte Público”

ATL skills:

  • Break down large concepts and projects into component parts and combine parts logically as appropriate.

  • Inquire in different contexts to gain a diverse perspective.

  • Identify different points of view.

  • Write for different purposes.

  • Structure information appropriately in in written oral and visual work.

  • Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks.

Bibliography:

 

Street art in Cali:

I went throughout the city taking pictures to the different street art I saw. It was mostly murals and graffiti (spray-painted pieces of art), but also some stencils, wheat pasting and art done in ceilings, floors, and columns. In addition some of them had social messages and others were used for advertisements. 

Graffiti art 

Wheat pasting

Stencils

Mural

Art in floors

Art in ceilings

Advertisement 

Social Protest

In addition there was a street art shop, which evidences that people can use street art as a business for sustaining themselves, and on top of that it shows that people are actually interested in it (otherwise the business wouldn’t have succeeded).

Here are all the pictures I took…

 

By: Alberto José Otero - Personal Project 2015

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