omi reserves the domain www.orilla-orilla.net and does some interface-sketches for the website we want to do in Medellin: el Puente! ..and Charley is here! he was resident in 2001 and came back to work on his project for a.i.m (arteattraverso i muri) – he wants to put a huge wall-graphic of Panganeas transformations..the continental drift as a metaphor for inevitable changes.. omi is going forward and backward Torino..packing things.. Teresa and Topo will take them all to Sevilla while Eva and him will be on their way to Colombia! the presentation day! 32Kb Oier does the first speech! La Tormenta! 49Kb i wish we could add some links to pages they made in cittadellarte for this presentation or any other online- translation from what happened this UNIDEE-year, but they are redesigning www.cittadellarte.it and it will take some more time.. omi gets a visit from Robin and Scully..the guys who invented and run http://www.paperkut.net.. they’d like to collaborate..fine..we’ll check paperkut out until the end of the year.. the presentation day is good..the show (open studio) is great! although the parallel presence in Antwerp made hings more difficult we manage a good day! and a good night: 36Kb first party this UNIDEE-year! dancing night! DJ-omito (hiphopsoul’nfunk!) and DJ-Daniele (househouse!) do a good and long job! finally we dance! thanks God you sent Charley! 24Kb Juan, Cristina and Anis are leaving tomorrow already to Colombia..but before we have to cel-ebrate the r-evolution day..this year without Michelangelo, and without Ryan and André who had to leave already back home..where projects are waiting..again up there in the bee keepers club, where this long table is.. 48Kb UNIDEEs final meal..the meal which wants to remember that this - although it ends - has only started..if we want..welcome in the network of cittadellarte! we all don’t know and we all are excited how this (and we) will go on.. Juan, Cristina and Anis are already gone, omi is leaving today to Madrid, L°°ks’ back home in mothership L.A. is preparing papers about geografia affettiva for http://www.sitemapping.ch and Miss Pi and Topo are staying some more days in Biella and Torino..packing their babyship-things..saying good bye to Torino.. and good bye residents2004! hope to see you all again! ciao Charley, hope to see you soon somewhere, why don’t you come to visit us in mother- or sister-ship? “good bye torino”..omi says..a bit sad..today..last day of having a bed here...it didn’t really work like we were dreaming after BIG closed and we opened the babyship..or did it? oo yes! but everything moved to Sevilla..wishes, ideas, plans..dreams.. ..”ciao sister Iris, good luck with your thesis..ciao Max..hasta luego Maria..bye You..see you soon in Spain..maybe right after Colombia?” just some hours before leaving Francesca, who runs cittas press office, sends out en e-mail about our colaboration in Colombia..in italian.. Madrid > meeting Eva in the late afternoon of the 4th of November! tomorrow they leave to Paris and Bogotá where they have another last flight to Medellin the same night..Juan’s there already.. he and Natalia will pick them up..volamos flor!   32Kb                32Kb while the flying c a l c delegation is watching the little screen in front of them..reflecting about the potential of geografia affettiva and playing with ideas for the coming workshop-weeks, Teresa and Topo are driving on their way down south from Turin to Sevilla.. 37Kb full car..it was snowing when they left Turin.. ..and its a clear warm night when Eva and omi are arriving in Bogotá..the international airport looks like a little national one but the national airport looks like the international one.. proportians and measures change and indicate that people are flying here a lot, si o que? si! Eva and omi arrive to Medellin, Juan and Natalia are awaiting them alredy..hola bonitos! on their way downtown Medellin they get their first lesson in “where am i here?”. they knew that this is going to be something else, but they are surprised that a lot of information they hear the first time. “don’t talk in public, somebody could hear your foreign accent and sell you to the guerilla”.. coming down to Medellin from the north..seeing this huge slim city-bowl from above..we stop for some beers and a Arepa (flat bread of corn) and listen..”never take a taxi in the street..the taxidriver could betray you..always call for a taxi!”.. we can stay in Natalias sisters house the first days..”she’s in the USA..no problem”..fine! tomorrow we have one last free day before we meet the students who are going to work with us! lets have a walk around..”no walks alone, only if you’re with us or the students, okay?” “okay..its scary here..” 31Kb but the fruits are so many! fruits we never saw..trees we never saw..downtown..how green this big city is..and how polluted..the buses seem to drive with coal.. 33Kb Natalia drives us around..its like a village..on the other hand it looks very clean here..this whole city is like hundreds of villages..no center..we pick up Cristina and Anis..Anis will go to the kindergarten the next weeks while we are working! now we are going to the city center..next day..where el centro colombo americano is..the center which invited us.. or better said Juan Alberto who is the director of the gallery there..we are going to meet the students today!