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Harvard University’s Widener Library. Has a collection of books from various Cartoneras in the Americas and Africa. Pre-Texts updates are featured on the weekly Cultural Agents Initiative newsletter. Sign up to stay informed! Sign up for General Interest. Boylston Hall, 417 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138. Culturalagents@gmail.com Phone: 617-495-5273. Powered by D-Brain Solutions.

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The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Harvard Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University offered the first intensive cretificate program in the PRE-Texts methodology from August 29th to September 1st, 2012. The training was led by Doris Sommer and organized by Harvard graduate student Jerónimo Duarte Riascos and Cultural Agents Initiative intern Stephanie Cedeño. Sign up for General Interest. Powered by D-Brain Solutions.

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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Surrogate MDF guitars, vinyl backdrop Music library, sound system, group activity. 2004, Tianguis del Chopo, Mexico City. 2008, Mash Up, USF Contemporary Art Museum Tampa. El Tianguis del Chopo is a street market in Mexico City where every Saturday, punks, goths, emos, head bangers, and other rock-related tribes meet to swap and sell records, all dressed up for the occasion. I fabricated a series of sculptures in the shape of electric guitars. Fiberglass, group activity. Video, 5’. To make a piece for th...

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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House for Future Caveman. Eschigo Tsumari Triennial, Japan. The new does not necessarily replace the past. We live in an era of anachronisms in which new neighborhoods are made in the fashion of old villages. I thought that if we traveled into the future, we could see architectural styles go backwards. The ultimate house of the future then, would be a cave. In the distant future we will become cavemen again. Carboard, Strobelight, group activity. Preaching to the Birds. In “Uccelatto e Ucelini&#822...

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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Study for a Recycling Device. In nature, “all waste equals food.” All waste becomes a biological nutrient. On the contrary, our technological waste is a toxic element rather than a nutritious one. Powder coated steel, wood, Group activity. Another interpretation could shift from problems into opportunities, a potential “social leverage”, or the power of an individual to transform his group. If you change your own habits you are multiplying your efforts by one. If you manage to introdu...I was invited to ...

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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Fundamentals of Pachyderm Architecture. Video, 6’. While I was in an artist's residency in Upstate New York, I found an old book about fantastic architecture in the university library. In this book, there was an engraving of a building near New Jersey made in the shape of an elephant. I asked my friend María José to join me on a trip. We decided to go out into the streets disguised as elephants in search of the elephant building. This video tells the story of our expedition. Atlas for Civic Innovation.

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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People’s United Nations (pUN). This is an experimental conference that seeks to apply techniques and resources from social psychology, theater, art, and conflict resolution to geopolitics. Unlike the real United Nations (UN), where delegates are appointed by states and are career diplomats, the people’s UN welcomes 193 regular citizens who live in the region and are connected by family ties or by birth to the nations represented at the UN. Instruments made from de-commissioned weapons. Making art about g...

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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Pharmasphere stages an abridged history of the production, distribution and consumption of prescription and illegal drugs from prohibition times to the present day. PHARMASPHERE * * * * * *. Loudly, addressing the four sides of the public). Welcome everyone. You are about to see a very peculiar play. It’s about drugs, violence, and international conspiracy. These are not appropriate subjects to be presented by teens. Oh it’s so embarrassing! Would you please explain how it works? Showing a giant molecule).

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Pedro Reyes - Artist

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Collected guns melted into steel to fabricate shovels, tree planning. Jardín Botánico de Culiacán. 1527 weapons were collected. 40% of them were high power automatic weapons of exclusive military use. These weapons were taken to a military zone they were crushed by a steamroller in a public act. This shovels have been distributed to a number of art institutions and public schools where adults and children engage in the action of planting 1527 trees. 2008 Vancouver Art Gallery. 2008 Maison Rouge, Paris.