BR1 & GEC - HAY AND ASPHALT (2014) an unauthorized intervention in which the two artists go through the streets of the area Barriera di Milano, pushing a bale of hay and dodging pedestrians and cars. The action will end with the final occupation of a car park. The forcefulness of the performance lies in its different reading keys, sometimes romantic, sometimes humorous. More or less consciously, various issues about current events are touched: from the relationship between natural and artificial landscapes, to the unbridled resources consumption in urban centers; from the different uses of the public soil to the rediscovery of the rural area, seen as an individual resistance to the depersonalizing pressure of the global economy. The relationship between the artwork and the public space is a crucial point in the practice of the two artists: their work is based mostly on ephemeral interventions in the urban context, almost always achieved spontaneously and without permissions. GEC and BR1 analyze the impact of the capitalist model on the identity of people, overturning and reinterpreting symbols and customs of the collective consciousness, taking part and involving actively the audience which sometimes, from simple user, it becomes protagonist of the work.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:25:01 +0000
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