este não é um erro temporário, mas sim um discurso permanente. this is not a temporary error, but a persistant speech. esto no es un error temporal, pero un discurso persistente.
work in progress
work concept
Being an artist with another artist has emerged as an conceptual project that is based on ideas of critical and unreal and at the same time satirical. This project was born has an response to the antropologic and social problems presents in the city of Barcelona, Spain.
Therefore, after an intensive research on the history and society of this city, especially at the Raval District, we’ve decided that the street Rambla del Raval would be the space to intervene. Our proposal is to recruit the following artists: Jeff Koons, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Kosuth, Juan Munoz and Dan Flavin for an artistic intervention in this urban space - this art work would give another way to look at what is happening is this neighbourhood, a place that was for years left to the prostitutes and the drug mercenaries.
The intention is to submit this «new clean up» District [Raval], in which the Barcelona City Council with the support of other political domain, tried to rehabilitated the urban space in this neighbourhood by giving a new face with a easy resolution of the situation, forgetting the anthropological and social nature of it. The Raval is a place that need to be respected and be filled with new opportunities to praise the people and their culture. It’s need more social work to save a neighbourhood that just put a five star hotel in the middle of the Rambla… the money society don’t save everything…
In this way of thinking, our intention would be to borrow the “hoover” by Jeff Koons, which Claes Oldenburg would make a giant reproduction, and ask to Joseph Kosuth to take a photography and write a subsequent explanation of the social, cultural and political significance of this intervention like an extension of the work himself that would release the meaning of the work (the hoover on the Rambla del Raval is a symbol to the political «cleaning» of the neighbourhood). A Juan Munoz we would ask to make a house for the cat sculpture that is at the Rambla by Fernando Botero and to Dan Flavin to make a light fixture with colour restrictions (the use of pink would be necessary, because it would be an allusion to the prostitutes in the Raval), and finally, we would ask Christo and Jean Claude to wrap the “hoover” to offer to the city of Barcelona. This intervention is an work of public art that tried to make people think about the situation of this public space.
by Inês Barroso and José Simões
joseph kosuth concept apropriation by bawaa
bawaa image apropriation with ojo de pez magazine
