Formed in La Plata, Argentina, this artistic-environmental NGO works mainly in the Rio Plata Estuary and the Paraná Delta. This is the basis for their intuitive, emotional, imaginative and sensorial relationships they forge between art and social and environmental development.
Since 1991, Ala Plástica has worked on a series of unconventional artistic initiatives on a “bioregional scale”. The group’s participants and collaborators come from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring that it can easily adapt to any type of project. Each builds a complex web that interrelates ecology, sustainability, networking, knowledge production, recovering local economies and social frameworks.
2 people are responsible for the coordination of operations: Silvina Babich and Alejandro Meitin. Whilst the other participants vary, the group is currently made up of around 40 people, brought together by a desire to share and build through art.
The group’s contribution to MDE11 is based on the perception of urban structures within the natural setting of the Santa Elena gorge, in which the local community also participated. This is project which will have to be analyzed, discussed and enriched within the framework of the exhibition of produced material.
Ala Plástica’s artistic work consists of strategies ensuring dialogue with people in Medellin (and the local community in Santa Elena), bound up with the social contexts that exist between the various discourses. Art is an integral part of a body of project the group call “experimental communities”. The commitment of participants lies within immersion in the process. Public debate for this group is an inherent element within the project as a whole.
Website
www.alaplastica.org.ar
Links of interest
‘Grant Kester: Interview with Ala Plástica’
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