THE COLLECTIVE ACTION VACIANDO-SÉ, BASED ON THE “PRINCIPLE” OF INTENTION WITHOUT INTENTION, IS A PROPOSAL OF MANENA JUAN FOR THE CLEANING OF A PLACE, AN EXPLORATION OF THE “ART OF EMPTYING”.

« … to clean a room at the San Martín Hospital, with no other purpose than to experience this action (which will be recorded on video) as an artistic and experiential intervention and a shared process:

    1. No contrived, linked to everyday life, domestic, ordinary and simple.

    2. Helpful, collaborative, and generous.

    3. Experiential, processual, ephemeral and unfinished.

    4. Non-invasive, that subtracts more than adds.

    5. Without adding, altering or manipulating any substantial object-based reality.»

Manena Juan

LIMPIARTE: THE COLLECTIVE

On February 6th, 2010 a group of women clean the room of reception of the old Hospital of San Martin (HSM), then to be the future Centre for Participative Cultural Production.

MANENA JUAN (Gran Canaria / sculpture, cultural creation), CHONY JIMÉNEZ (Gran Canaria / law), EDURNE GONZÁLEZ (Bilbao / fine arts), ANDREA MASEDA (Madrid / fine arts, contemporary dance), Mª JOSÉ OLLERO (Madrid / fine arts, education),  PRISCILLA VALENCIA (Gran Canaria / industrial design),  LAURA FERNÁNDEZ (Madrid / architecture), OLIVIA MENDOZA (Barcelona / audiovisual communication),  CLARA MASEDA (Gran Canaria / urban scenographer) y Mª JOSÉ PLANELLS (Valencia / fine arts).