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Mooring, Co-production Workshop by Eric Conrad
MOORING, CO-PRODUCTION WORKSHOP BY ERIC CONRAD
Eric Conrad’s co-production workshop at the Antofagasta Regional Library, located in Plaza Colón, was a cross between the museum without museum and the school without school programs of this biennial. Mooring was the title of the work, the post, pillar or ring where something is moored, where boats are tied. Like all great moorings, this work required many particular energies and was thus a significant and enriching encounter between the artist and those who came to be part of the process between September 27 and October 1.
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A total of eight people participated and set up a genuine carpentry workshop in the library’s auditorium, a place completely unrelated to this purpose. There they cut and sewed multicolored fabrics, sawed and hammered wood, sewed and filled with felt large extensions of fabric, all to the sound of an
This work aimed to upset installation work that, step by step, was conquering the entire library, from the auditorium to the central hall, going the iconic building’s identity, up to the third floor and reaching through a window that overlooked the exterior façade of the library. As a whole twisting its neoclassical and as an actual flood, this work aimed to upset the iconic building’s identity, twisting its neoclassical verticality, verticality, disturbing its disturbing its scholastic maturity and dismantling its instructive splendor with disruptive and shapeless objects, scholastic maturity and even displaying elements of the domestic world, such as, for example, giant socks or a pair of oversized underpants dismantling its instructive hanging out of the window. splendor.
One of the participants of the workshop, Jordán Plaza (28 years old), mentioned that it wasn’t a process of passively assisting the American artist, but rather a collaboration in which his own traces, marks and personal impulses coexisted with those of the participants, something that Conrad himself details in the Territory section of this book.
