Story Box / C.U.V.O.
Participatory installation in the public space
STORY BOX is an interdisciplinary project, in which literature becomes performative in the frame of an “installation-machine-monument” located in the public space.
Inside a cabin made of wood and carton, different people read, one after the other, stories from different places in their mother tongue, for 48 hours non-stop. The project is a human-machine that works without rest, day and night. Placed in the public space of a city, STORY BOX acts as a living monument, activating associations, memories and images in the visitor, only through the spoken word.
STORY BOX was developed in 2010 in Germany. The project relates to the main characteristic of Berlin ́s district Neukölln: the coexistence of different social and ethnic groups. Situated in the square in front of Neukölln ́s city-hall, over 40 participants read in 18 different languages during 48 hours non stop, in the frame of 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival.
A second edition of the project, C.U.V.O. / caja urbana de voces otras, was presented in Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA (Mujeres Argentinas square), in the frame of Night of Museums in Buenos Aires. 70 participants read in more than 25 different languages including native languages like quechua, aymara, guarani and nahuatl.
Concept
Valeria Schwarz
Team in Berlin
Betiana Bellofatto, Natalia Blanco, Lune Léoty, Jan Fischer, Valeria Schwarz
Team in Buenos Aires
Jan Fischer, María José Trucco, Betiana Bellofatto and Valeria Schwarz
Assistants
Fany Montero, Eva Solana
Photography
Steve Braun
Participants in Berlin
Florencia Almirón, Céline Andreoli, Iulia Anghelescu, Ion Arbelaiz, Maider Armentia, Petra Benková, Camille Boichot, María Cano Caunedo, Ismaele Cattaneo, Judith Feige, Betty Fox, Alan Gargo, Ulf Hermann, Maylïs Husson, Jeons Hyun, Maik Kerner, Claire Kurylowski, Alan Layton, Barbara Marcel, Arturo Martínez, Emma Moreno, Christoff München, Kaan Özger, Marlene Pfau, Ibon Quintano, Klara Reitberger, Klara Reitsma, Jeni Ringland, Ivi Roberg, Martin Shamoonpour, Stanley, Nuria Viladomat & Rosa Teixidor, Diana Toledo, Shuang Zhang, Diana Zolotarová, a.o.
Participants in Buenos Aires
Elna Eriksen, María González Rouco, Ramón Suárez O Muxo, Jan Magne Eriksen Bae, Erika Karlsson, Ignacio Baez, Mariana Andrusiak, Natalia Panyuk, Vendula Vlková Hingarová, Eliška Špatenka, Ana Souchop, Dana y Cristina Turecek, Renee Šumická, Carlos Horacio Bembibre, Patricia Llamas, Aldana Solimo, Irene Solimo, Nora Schamo, Diana Flores Mendy, Irma Podzun, Sergio Muñoz, María Lina Cirone, Anne Gauthey, Carlos Xavier Rodríguez Brandeiro, Matías Gonzalo Almeida Souto, Cecilia Jacqueline Álvarez, Florencia Belén Conversano, Rocío Mariana Gallo, Joaquín Manuel González Vega, Giovanna Rosina Grispino Peiteado, Paula Yael Maldonado, Sofía Montserrat Mezzina Iglesias, Florencia Aldana Mouriño Vodopiviz, Alina Hadjian, Emma Yeritsyan, Antonia Salerno de Bellofatto, Teresa Perinić, Ever Román, Carlos Marré, Alexandra Jamieson Barreiro, Marilyn Dieguez, Valerio Zanna, Päivi Niemelä, Angela Lunario, Zulmi Paradeda, Brenda Lupe Fernández Fernández, Zulma Romero, Jorge Florín, Edit Weber, Verónica Endres, Mana Laterrade, Germán Andrés Gómez, Débora Lowi, Michele Porfiri, Rossella Beraldo, Susana Blanco, Cecilia Martínez Salvatierra, Philip Webb, Octavio Fernández, Zulema Rodríguez, Jan Fischer
Produced by
iCollective e.V. in the frame of 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, GER, 2010 and Noche de los Museos de Buenos Aires, ARG, 2012.
Supported by
French Embassy in Berlin, Instituto Cervantes, Argentinian Embassy in Berlin, Kulturnetzwerk e.V., Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y las Ciencias del Ministerio de Cultura del G.C.B.A., Buenos Aires Capital Mundial del Libro.
Many thanks to
Weser 191, Anna Busdiecker, Matthias, Natasha Pradman, Victoria Plum, Steve Braun, Chela.