Can we turn temporary inhabitants into permanent habitants?
Do cranes only exist when we need them to?
Where do they go when the invasion is done? Where do they sleep?
What secrets do they hide?
We will focus on spatiality as a “spatial practice”, thus distinguishing between “representations of public space” and “public spaces of representation”. The understanding of spatiality evoked here is situated knowledge that summons different levels of implication/articulation of the thing with its context/situation. The project in public space is indiscernible from temporality, from the micro-practices of everyday space as well as from the social, technical and economic realities involved in the effort to materialize it.
With the reference of John Cage's 4'33. The video suspends the content of constructions and invite us to introspect through the only blue crane in the city, an alien to its own kind.
It is about seeking to record performative, spatial or relational occurrences, of a nature that is not immediately visual through visual or plastic forms. These performativity in the public space can be understood in a broad spectrum of occurrences and connections between the human, non-human and atmospheric dimensions.
Starting with the reference of Francis Alys's Seven Walks (2004-2005), these series explore the concept of 3 Approaches.
By focusing on almost-still images it uses non-human entities and rhytmical sounds.
What secrets these micro universes hide?
It is intended that through visual analysis of the space and its recording, students can approach the perceptual complexity offered by urban space; that internalize and experiment with different possibilities for representing space, as well as its image manipulation and formal composition.
