Treasures show

Listing categories Situations / GARBIBAI / Urban intervention
Address Alderdi Eder Park Donostia/San Sebastian
Location / Region Basque Country/ Donostia
Date 2015.05.30
Time 02:00 PM

Public presentation of all “treasures” collected the previous day in the Urumea river during the fourth and last edition of the race GARBIBAI. (2015.05.30)

The 6 hours installation/performance was developed on a Sunday right in front of the City Hall of San Sebastian. It was based in a big tent in the middle of the passageway from where two 15m blue cat walks where going out until security belts. In the sides, hundreds reserved chairs for all presidents, with goody bags (including small treasures tagged). Plants and vinyl stripes decorating side of tents.

Script
Industrial music begins when two functionaries goes out from the tent and walk until both extremes of cat walk, there they dress white overalls, gloves, sunglasses and masks and return to tents.

con sumo cuidado.
sudor,
es talla
de nube
tu lluvia
amares
ríos
y helados
somos
agua.

Immediately after, three women dressed with reused waste materials, start going continuously out from the tent one by one per side, placing treasures in the catwalk until was impossible to walk. In that moment they stay inside tents and functionaries went out again to collect all treasures back to the tent. Silence…

& Txotx!

ORGANIZATION GARBIBAI 2015

Gondolin Klub

GARBIBAI TREASURES PRESENTATION 2015

antipodes café

Cast

Alina Petrychuck, Jone Pujana (First Models)
Aitor Sansinenea (Gondolin Kluba)
Tuva Langfeldt, Felipe Ridao (antipodes café)

Spontaneous words

Felipe Ridao (antipodes café)

Simultaneous translation to Basque

Aitor Sansinenea (Gondolin Kluba)

Fashion Designer

Tytti Thusberg

Make up

Jone Pujana (First Models)
Tuva Langfeldt (antipodes café)

Line producer

Marcelo Díaz (Gondolin Kluba)

Photos

Video

Aitor Iturralde (Gondolin Kluba)

SUPPORT

THANKS

Gobierno Vasco
Donostiako Udala / Ayuntamiento de San Sebastián
Donostia Kultura
Olatu Talka
FCC

Iker Tolosa
Via Fora!
Iñigo Aristegui

Map
Street View

Address Alderdi Eder Park
Donostia/San Sebastian

GARBIBAI + antipodes café

In 2012, GONDOLIN KLUB -the first SUP club in Europe- started GARBIBAI as the first world clean up river race in stand up paddle along the Urumea river in Donostia/San Sebastian (DSS), Basque Country.

ts name came from the fusion of three basque words: "garbi" (clean) "ibai" (river) and "bai" (yes).

A year later, antipodes café suggested to the organiser, to make a twist in this unique sport initiative by including strategical stages of "SHOWING" and "REUSING". In addition, all collected objects should from then on be called "treasures", and the project should include a participative and accumulative communication.

The resulting diversion of the existent river, included many subtile and notorious situations, as for example:
- an urban intervention using all collected treasures in front of the City Hall,
- a workshop at an art space with a subsequent exhibition in a commerce information centre,
- a competition on how to stick their posters with a special "GARBIBAI tape" that also could be use to dance cheek to cheek during a celebration after the race,
- the creation of a mascot (kktua) for kids workshops…
and many more details…
and this project evolved day by day, edition by edition in its inevitable progress of many people giving their best, until the river enter into its mouth, where its sweet waters encounter with those salty ones.

Core activities of GARBIBAI, since first edition, took part of a massive festival called OLATU TALKA. Celebrating that town as European Capital of Culture in 2016, year when the organisation resolve to stop GARBIBAI.
This was one of the nicest project we were involved, thousand stories we accumulate in our hearts and livers. Txotx!

"No man ever steps in the same river twice" or in albertocastillan:

Treasures show

Overview

Gallery

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