PRESENCE AND IDENTITY
Last week I was talking about the subjects of urban presence and identity. From what I have gathered so far, Espoos center is mostly a functional center. Transportation, residential and administrative hub. Nothing else. Its a patchwork, in all its levels. What is keeping it from being a weave instead of a patchwork? Movement is necessary, people interacting, density not more spreading…
I was trying to focus my intervention on making a “social art pavilion” to “fix” that, but trying to figure out what I would put inside, I found that that was the actually the interesting part. I thought about how art can make a point of this urban absence.
Doing this in a visual way:
Having images around at different scales, populating the urban landscape (live photos, thread, sculptures, visual)?
Making a sarcastic point? (people watching point)
Trying to physically change the situation with nomad gallery?
Talking about identity and inclusion:
Collection of peoples ‘most finnish object they own’
Espoonian of the year (give away mask of an unknown person from Espoo: masked crowd changing urban landscape, unifying...what?)
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