about Quadrafonia Urbana

We follow instrictions as a kind of coreography, no matter in which city we are. These instruction, created by Agustina Barthes - from Argentina - for Quadrafonia Urbana Project (click here to read the project-description that was sent to XII SAL - Seminario de Arquitectura Latinoamericana), syncronize our "walk throught the cities" despide of ask asking us to improvise our walk as a person who "walks around where lives". As Sebastián Bravo wrote in Spanish, it means: to record urban spaces "atraves da mirada de sus propios habitantes". So, we can say that the "process" has 3 instances:

1 - to syncronize: 4min
2 - to improvise: 6min
3 - to improvise (again): 2min

Here is the "coreography" we all try to respect using a timekeeper for the Quadrafonia Urbana Nº1 and during some proposes developed after it:

00’:00” - START
00’:20” - Turn left and walk for 1 square.
01’:20” - Turn right and walk for 2 squares.
03’:30” - Turn left and walk.
04’.00” - Start free record guide by the actuality circumstance in each city and by the cameraman feeling. Do not look for a final approach of urban space, just try to record what happens around you. Free record, walk as a "flauner" without a precise end.


Plaza das Armas, Santiago, Chile by Sebastián Bravo (january, 2008)



10’.00” - Record the "sky-line".
10’.03” - Turn 180º looking to the sky above you.
10’.05” - Start walking to the nearest corner and record it: the corner.
11’.00” - In the corner, record the cars.
11’.30” - Cross the street and search for a "landscape record".
11’.50” - Keep recording the landscape.
12’.00” - STOP.


Plaza das Armas, Santiago, Chile by Sebastián Bravo (january, 2008)