Idea
The idea is to destroy Chile. Countries don’t have to last forever. Sometimes they commit irreparable crimes. For example. A court.
The idea is to destroy Chile. Countries don’t have to last forever. Sometimes they commit irreparable crimes. For example. A court.
What if we define values, principles, and methodologies, resisting the pressure to define outcomes? What if we focus on what drives us and on how we want to live and work together, but leave the imagination open to the concrete shapes our collaboration can take?
Under El Sisi, where every inch of the city is controlled by the army, censorship spreads like a plague, and the possibility of any form of creative expression in the public space – especially graffiti, which was an extremely important medium during the revolution – is close to nil. And so the appearance of a work of street art on such a gigantic scale is phenomenal.
It is raw, it is real, it is happening with you in the room and can only be experienced in the “here and now.” It is open to a multiplicity of heres and nows depending on the realities, perceptions, localities... of those present.
This cultural subversion transformed the plazas into stages of theatrical action, and its participants into architects of spatial poetics.
You’re on a long slow road in the Karoo. It’s hot and dry and all of your previous girlfriends are hitchhiking out of Cradock.