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Cosmico

La Paternal Cosmic Center

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Memories get blurry.
Years 1984/85.
How did Jorge set up the Cosmic Center in La Paternal, so I go to those who have material and memories.
A huge house, parties, people who come and go, projects, clubs, typewriters refresh my memory through some photos.
Joaquín Amat has many video productions that can be seen atYoutube.



 

"...we made a very big festival, they are all things that you surely know better than me [the only participation of the Redondos in a festival is known history. Later, I formed a kind of community with other people, somewhat similar to this, but perhaps with many more people, in a very large house that we rented. It was a different project, we wanted to do a publishing house but it ended up in something else. That was in La Paternal, a place we built in '84 called Centro Cósmico La Paternal and it lasted until 1990. It was a very large house that some friends of mine had rented, and where they proposed to me to make a magazine. I had been left with a pending matter, after the many problems I had with the publications I put out, that the titles of the Imaginary Express were stolen from me, etc., etc., and I wanted to continue making a publication."
Was it a big place?

Yes, a house more or less similar to this one, but with many more rooms, a gigantic patio, sheds. When we wanted to agree, after a few weeks everyone slipped in and then in the end we said "let's organize as a community, a newsroom here is going to be impossible" (he laughs). And it was a very nice experience because we did it, we organized ourselves, there were many boys between mine and those of my friends, like ten. And we set up a work cooperative, we painted walls, we did various jobs, with what more or less each one knew. Decorations, whatever. We had a box in common -which we have here too- and with that we spent six years with various... (He remembers and laughs) with various incidents, some of a certain seriousness. A very heterogeneous environment was generated, so we went from hippies from El Bolsón to many heavy metals.All the tribes were there. All, yes. The V8s came at first, which later, in that house, became Hermética. We would have some very large barbecues to which the most diverse people you can think of would come: very lumpen people, very marginal, and out there intellectuals and hippies. But they all lived... 

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The interiors of the Fontova Presidente video were recorded at the Cosmic Center.

You can see it by clicking on the play of the television 

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Jorge and Joaquin Amat

Far from his natural habitat, Jorge had landed in Lavallol.
To see it you had to make a long journey. Ricchieri, Camino de Cintura to reach a modest "home", very modest.
His spirit continued to fight against injustice, although on those lonely nights, anguish and depression would surely take over him.

When I was left with my family without a place to live, a friend got me a house that was unoccupied in a workshop belonging to the Amat textile factory in Monte Grande, which was among the three most important in the country and gave work to more than a thousand people. The place where I went to live was called the little workshop because in relation to the factory it was. But this "little workshop", which was in charge of the manufacture of spare parts and the maintenance of the entire industrial complex, comprised a block and almost a hundred people worked. In other words, the back of my house was separated, by a sliding gate, from huge sheds full of people working.

But of course, while this workshop flourished, the factory collapsed, like the rest of the productive apparatus. That's how one fine day they declared bankruptcy, kicked everyone out, put closing strips on the  doors and

Right off the bat I found myself alone with my wife and three children, in the midst of the oppression of the huge now empty sheds, waiting for the moment when they came to evict us. I felt the torment of seeing how once again it was necessary to renounce and leave behind everything that had been built, just like with the Express and the Cosmic Center. In this case, things were much more dramatic because the companions, most of them because of their age, would not get a job anywhere. I was always on the streets and developed defense mechanisms, but they were left in the most absolute helplessness and it seemed to me a betrayal to leave without fighting. This lasted four years from when we took over the factory with two hundred workers and transformed it into a cooperative until the moment in which they managed to finish it off. Osvaldo Quintana -The Collective Magazine

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When I was left with my family without a place to live, a friend got me a house that was unoccupied in a workshop belonging to the Amat textile factory in Monte Grande, which was among the three most important in the country and gave work to more than a thousand people. The place where I went to live was called the little workshop because in relation to the factory it was. But this "little workshop", which was in charge of the manufacture of spare parts and the maintenance of the entire industrial complex, comprised a block and almost a hundred people worked. In other words, the back of my house was separated, by a sliding gate, from huge sheds full of people working.

But of course, while this workshop flourished, the factory collapsed, like the rest of the productive apparatus. That's how one fine day they declared bankruptcy, kicked everyone out, put closing strips on the  doors and suddenly I found myself alone with my wife and three children, in the middle of the oppression of the huge sheds now empty, waiting for the moment when they came to evict us. I felt the torment of seeing how once again it was necessary to renounce and leave behind everything that had been built, just like with the Express and the Cosmic Center. In this case, things were much more dramatic because the companions, most of them because of their age, would not get a job anywhere. I was always on the streets and developed defense mechanisms, but they were left in the most absolute helplessness and it seemed to me a betrayal to leave without fighting. This lasted four years from when we took over the factory with two hundred workers and transformed it into a cooperative until the moment in which they managed to finish it off. Osvaldo Quintana - El Colectivo Magazine

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Photo: Uberto Sagramoso

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