SPINNING DREAMS  

Performance

During the Crouch End Festival we installed a strap across the whole perimeter of Hornsey Town Hall Art Centre, a gorgeous building from 1930s and people will be able to write their dreams...building a chain of dreams!  Hilanda makes a thread that becomes a sculpture the size of the public square filled with dreams.

Hilanda is playing with architecture as a place of transit, where stories constantly develop, both inside and outside. She wants to make people aware of the space they are passing by. The aim is to raise awareness about the buildings that surround them everyday, the places they transit and inhabit. She wants people to kneel to the everyday architecture which is indeed worth looking at. (while they write they have to kneel, and look at the corners and the details of the constructions).

The intervention C:/Hilanda/to_be_expired/Spinning_Dreams.exe consists in a drawing of the room scale 1:1 with a line following the walls of the gallery at 60cm from the ground. The line is drawn by writing a chain of dreams that begins with a dream/fiction from the artist, followed by dreams written by the public and fellow artists.

The installation is part of a series of interventions that follow the same parameters and that each time explores the imperfections and corners of the spaces it inhabits. Also it explores the body positions in relation to space. The heigh of the installation forces the participant to notice the corners that envelop everyday life and to somehow to humble against it and kneel to it. 

Artist: Hilanda (aka Tania Lopez Winkler). Hilanda is one of many fictional characters that Tania created to work with her artistic projects. Tania is a Mexican architect and visual artist based in London. 

Hilanda is a Spatial Private Detective. She looks for clues embedded in the fleeting aesthetic experiences of city life. Hilanda’s work involves strolling about and getting lost in the city’s maze and dreamscapes. If she was in Paris she would be a flaneuse,  but since she operates in London she is a detective. When in rapture and delirium instead of playing the violin she spins filaments and threads. 

Curated by Lassla Esquivel. Mexican curator based in London. 

Date: Saturday 18th of June 2016 from 10am to 6PM. PERFORMANCE 4pm. 

Tania López Winkler is an exhibiting artist and architect based in London. Her interests are focused on the liminal space between interior space and city (as enacted in detective fiction and manifested in architecture).  Her work is an enquiry of modernity and the notion of ‘the normal.’ As she investigates what is to be modern her work uncovers the world of fantasy poetic imperfections embedded in the quotidian. As a detective of the domestic, she invents personages.  Her photographs and art installations have been shown and published internationally. She received the Latin American in U.K. (LUKAS) Visual Artist of the Year 2015 Award. She is invited to give lectures and seminars in many countries including England, France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Poland and Mexico.  She holds architecture degrees from ITESM in Mexico and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she was granted a Ph.D. for her thesis “The Detective of Modern Life.”

Her photographs and art installations have been shown and published internationally. She received the Latin American in U.K. (LUKAS) Visual Artist of the Year 2015 Award. She is invited to give lectures and seminars in many countries including England, France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Poland and Mexico.  She holds architecture degrees from ITESM in Mexico and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she was granted a Ph.D. for her thesis “The Detective of Modern Life.”

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