RoToR // www.rotorrr.org/

By means of real facts and practical explorations Rotor is in the process of constant self-definition.
It becomes the dynamic part of an engine made up of people from different ambits, working together and sharing their knowledge. In Rotor there’s always the chance to play decoding the chains of information and creating a new system of signs and valuation having to do with both, personal conditions and locations. Rotor connects up and crosses, goes up and down. We learn from the game the role we are playing and the board where we are located. The movement keeps us awake and it makes us activate a closer and more vital relationship not only with the environment but also with the emotions players feel when enjoying it. It offers the possibility to take part in the process of creating the rules of the game.
It gives us a mission.

Rotor explorations are divided into three different phases: terrestrial phase, aerial phase and aquatic phase. Nowadays Rotor is in the air.

Terrestrial phase: Ground operation // Olympic Games // Adventurous explorations // Safaris // Short cuts // Cartography

Poble Now: Exploring the changing territory, 2002-2003 // ”…a series of projects which involve the production of changing maps of the Poblenou district, one of Barcelona's main focuses of urban redevelopment. The maps show open spaces, no-access zones, temporary accesses, border zones, zones of surveillance, zones where building work is in progress, places you have to jump across, places you have to climb down, where there is a chimney still standing, where the property developers and new housing are located. The maps, which the artists publish themselves, show the movements you have to make in order to cross these areas. The body once again becomes an indicator which marks the territory. As Deleuze and Guattari would say, the artists reterritorialise these spaces with their own experiences. They simultaneously photograph, film on video and make notes on the plans. The situation they document stems from the logic of the excursion, which they refer to as a safari. This attitude suddenly transforms the places visited into uncovered places full of exotic attractions and also tells us what they think of the tourism industry as a whole.” (Carles Guerra) // Explorations Poble NOW (www.rotorrr.org/poblenow_01.htm) //
Safaris PN (www.rotorrr.org/safari_poblenow.htm) // Planariae PN (http://www.rotorrr.org/planariae.htm) // Teixit*PN (www.rotorrr.org/teixit_pn/)
Sculptural Olympiade / BCN02 (www.rotorrr.org/olympiada2002/logo.htm )
Aquatic Phase: Pirates overboard! // Recycled rafts // Turn the barriers: Geopatographic Planisphery / Pateras on the river, lake and sea // Aquatic demonstration // Schengen without effort (Assimil)

TURN THE BARRIERS // In search of new horizons where tellurocracy has still no power on the seas, we build naval devices to flee from the urban plentitude -out of illusion- and junmp into the infinite emptiness of the sea -full of hope-
We fabricate rafts gathering and reusing urban control and construction accessories common in the metropolis of the westernized world; the standardization and accessibility of these elements in the urban environment make possible the use of the manual on a world-wide scale.
The Manual Navigatio suggests a modular construction typology developed from the on-site interpretation of randomly found materials, inviting one to explore the sea by geopatographical naval routes and in turn, experiencing the depth of distance. // www.rotorrr.org/patera // www.paterasurbanas.net //
Assimil (www.rotorrr.org/assimil/)

Aerial Phase: Taking off // Roof stralls / bridges, nets, ballons / Satellite System Comunication // GPSManual // Mobility

ALT_ERATED LINKS // A superpopulated territory as the Gothic centre of Barcelona contains, thanks to the specificity of architecture, an overlayered, elevated and paradoxically much emptier territory. Above the narrow, dense and dark streets, another geographical layer is built, massive, with an extension almost equal to the studied neighbourhood, inhabited but not accessible. It’s an unusual, unknown and private territory. Unfortunately, these roofs cannot be followed as an itinerary nor considered as public, but remain exclusive of their owners.
So we start exploration itineraries based on the trespassing permits given by the owners of their accesses.
From the collected information, two kinds of maps are produced: a territorial map that investigates the opening of transitable itineraries on a compartmented plane at scale and a dynamic map which represents the social links generated from the connexions of neighbourhood, friendship, or simply the wish to build a bridge between two roof terraces. // www.rotorrr.org/terrats/ //
GPSm (www.rotorrr.org/GPSm/)

See you on FIRE!

Vahida Ramujkic, (1973, Belgrado) // Laïa Sadurní (1973, Barcelona)