Memento

Abstract

MEMENTO is a project produced by |carnicería.

MEMENTO x ARGANZUELA is conceived as its first program, in collaboration with Intermediae - Matadero Madrid, within the program Mirador Arganzuela.

The second edition, MEMENTO x CARABANCHEL is carried out with the support of the creation and mobility assistance program of the Madrid City Council.

Core team:

Helena Gallego is an architect, researcher and tattoo artist. She focuses her production from the interest in radiographing the contemporary moment, the digitalo-analogical duality and the body as territory. PhD Candidate for ETSAM (UPM), M.Arch Architect specialized in Urban Environments from the University of Alcalá (UAH), with a year of stay at the University of Brno (Czech Republic). She has developed urban projects in collaboration with cultural institutions such as Matadero Madrid or Medialab-Prado, among others, as well as architectural communication projects for different media such as Tectónica or METALOCUS.

Niko Barrena is an architect, professor and researcher. Co-founder of |carnicería (transdisciplinary studio), he research on the new metropolitan logics and emerging critical practices. PhD Candidate and M.Arch Architect by ETSAM (UPM). M.Arch Student at TUT (Finland, 2015-16). Researcher at HyperMedia Research Group (UPM), where he works on the house/city, communication and mediation. Professor in the Master’s Degree of Architectural Communication “MAca”, which belongs to the Moncloa UPM + UCM Campus. Professor of Fashion Film in the Postgraduate Degree in Architecture, Fashion and Design “AMD” (UPM). Professor of Foundation Course in Total Design in IED Madrid.

The first edition had the collaboration of Iris Hernández, political scientist, mediator and cultural manager, who focuses her production and research on cultural policies, the potentialities of the proximity culture and experimental processes as social transformation tools. She has a Degree in International Relations and a Master in Cultural Policies from the Sciences Po University of Paris, with a year of studies at the American University of Cairo (Egypt).

The second edition and future has the collaboration of Martina Gonzalo, graduate in philosophy from the UAM and an independent curator, especially focused on the history of aesthetic ideas and art criticism. She is in permanent research around identity concepts and contemporary narrative lines that can be registered, in a transdisciplinary way, in new ways of conceiving the artistic.