AFTER PSYCHOTROPIC CONCEPTS

THE IDEA IS THE MACHINE THAT MAKES THE ART

From 2 December to 16 December The BCN Psycho Tropic Workshops
was a working progress show featured at Antigua Casa Haiku in
Barcelona.
Curated by Alex Brahim.
The show was about a sort of retrospective and introspective tour
around material from the very far past and the immediate future.

It started as an introductory show/event where old and new films where
screened,a spoken word piece was re-enacted, the space had few sections
and made a total installation composed by big wood murals and zones
of painting as performance, references to Kaprow, Klein, and Oiticica.

A new project based on the Legend of The Chupacabras which was also part
of a virtual opening night at Miami Basel Art Fair

From the 6 till the 9 of December the workshops where on , participants
and ocasional visitors mixed and interchanged opinions and derives.
Finally the 16 of December and as a sort of conclusive performance,
a Club Esther night was reproduced for the first time ever inside a gallery
space.

Here are bits and fragments of how it was like.....


Collaborative setting between PsychoTropic workshop members

Opening Night

                                               International Red and Neo Concrete Presence


 6 white panels brushed with Colour Palette guide by the voice of Allan Kaprov









Dark Star Poster Set






Dejar que las imágenes y fotos de cerca de estos no-obras de arte tomadas por otro ser, otro artista joven que decide por si mismo que quiere ver en estas composiciones su momento y relación con ellas.. dejar estos documentos ser 

Absorber a los modernos como Man Ray pintar encima de sus consagradas obras y de su rostro

Corrupción en Miami: un video casero muestra a un supuesto Don Johnson en un nuevo inédito capitulo de la serie, en el queda clara la relación entre el tráfico de drogas, el mundo del arte y 

las casas de los super ricos, sus hábitos hipócritas. Influenciada por las experiencias directas de este tema al visitar Miami para una expo en Basel justo un par de Diciembres anteriores a estas fechas.

    A spoken word re-enactment of Redum  a text piece from 1998



THE PSYCHOTROPIC WORKSHOPS


Psicotrópico (del griego psyche, "mente" y tropein, "tornar") es un agente que actúa sobre el sistema nervioso central, lo cual trae como consecuencia cambios temporales en la percepción, ánimo, estado de conciencia y comportamiento.

psy·cho·tro·pic (sk-trpk, -trpk) adj. Having an altering effect on perception or behavior. A psychotropic drug or other agent. psychotropic [-trop?ik] Etymology: Gk, psyche + trepein, to turn exerting an effect on the mind or modifying mental activity

psychotropic (s??·k?·tr??·pik), adj concerns that that affect the mind and influence behavior. psychotropic capable of modifying mental activity.