A result of the Caracascase: Informal Urban Culture project, Urban-Think Tank curated and organized an exhibition in the Sala Mendoza Gallery. There, the work of 17 artists, researchers, and documentarians presented alternative views on the rapidly changing metropolis. The participants were both local and international, including work by Ignacio Arcaya, Diego Rojas, Alexander Gerdel, Pablo Souto, André Cypriano, Keisuke Fukuma, Shui Endo, Marco Poletto, Guy Lafayette, Armando Silva, Tulio Hernández, Nicolás Bancilhon and Marí­a Alejandra Padrón, Marjetica Potrc, Liyat Esakov, Sabine Muller, Andreas Quednau, Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, Feliz Madrazo and Elena Chetchencko.
The exhibition itself makes no attempt at final solutions, but rather attempts to understand and generate discussions on unsanctioned “informality” as a cultural force. After travelling to the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, the show was repackaged into a book, “Informal City: Caracascase,” published in 2004.

Sala Mendoza

Caracascase

Exhibitions

21 January 2018 – 24 February 2018 – <a href="http://civic-city.org/places/barcelone-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2">CIVIC CITIES NETWORK #horspistes13 / Centre Pompidou</a>
In a world where a large majority of the population lives and works in cities, their role and responsibilities are bigger every day. Perhaps more aware of global interdependencies, often more open and progressive than nations, they start to connect and talk in synergy about the great challenges of our planet. With such prospects to contend with, Civic City focuses on ‘public space’ as a new type of proximity common area.

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Places en Relation

15 May 2018 – 17 May 2018 – <a href="http://www.lacolonie.paris/agenda/caracas-reset">Regards Sur La Création Contemporaine Vénézuélienne: CARACAS RESET!</a>
CARACAS RESET! presented creative works from leading artists, architects and thinkers connected to the Venezuelan crisis, bringing together projects from the diaspora. Marked by mass exodus, the fracture of cultural institutions, economic failure and the birth of new political consciousnesses, the works represent a broad reflection of the process of cultural fragmentation and re-assemblage in a variety of modes.

Paris

Caracas Reset

In 2008, the director of the Architecture Biennale of Venice, Aaron Betsky, invited Urban-Think Tank to participate in the “Experimental” section of the exhibition. U-TT’s installation aimed to insert the discourse of Caracas’s streets into the show, displaying a mix of political propoganda posters taken from city walls along with U-TT’s own satirical design advertisements.
The message was clear: cities are political spaces, especially in the hyper-polarized Venezuelan context. With themes such as oil-funded infrastructure, a housing shortage, informal densification, and the appropriation of unused space, U-TT’s installation confronted viewers with an intense reality that demanded both a critical perspective and civic activism.

Location	The Architecture Biennale of Venice
Year	2008
Curator	Urban-Think Tank

Slum Lifting

The Venice Architecture Biennale