Neste verão, Luzinterruptus, já antes aqui mencionado,
esteve na Austrália com uma nova instalação.
Seguem as declarações e algumas fotografias:
"In June, we went to
Melbourne to carry out a large-scale installation, our largest so far, at the
Light in Winter festival.
This year’s theme was
“reading”, for this reason they asked us to recreateLiterature vs Traffic, a piece that we had
previously installed in New York in a subversive manner and which they now
offered us the opportunity to expand it and make it grow for a month.
We had 10,000 books discarded
by public libraries because they considered them to be obsolete, that the
Salvation Army was responsible for collecting and donating them to us,
altruistically of course, we also had our lights and the help of a lot of
friends with whom we lived for a month doing the work of assembly and
installation.
The objective
of this piece? The same as the first time that we carried it out, that a river
of books overflowing into the physical pedestrian spaces and installed itself
in the space allocated to cars, stealing precious space to the dense traffic in
the area, in a symbolic gesture in which literature took control of the streets
and became the conquerer of the public space, offering the citizens, a space
(not as big as we would have liked) in which the traffic withdrew yielding
ground to the modest power of the written word.
On the final night,
the overflowing river of books, was offered to the visitors who took their time
choosing the most interesting to take home from the thousands installed there.
In addition 9 artists from the company Yumi, conducted an impromptu and magical
performance that ended in a donation of books to the occupants of the cars that
were circulating in the vicinity, who, stupefied opened their windows to
receive these mysterious presents."
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