Under Construction 2007-2008
Flash application
Under Construction is an art-device that conceives the city as a continuously-changing environment. The city is a space that is being constructed and reconstructed by the uses and appropriations that the citizens make of the urban landscape. The urban space is not only a physical space, planned and organised following an Utopian plan that must be realised in the future, but it is a perceived and lived space. It is constituted according to the collective point of view, so it can no exist previously to culture and politics. It is a space for temporality where a multiplicity of situations takes place and where it is possible to build new possibilities for life. It is always under construction and, for this reason, it can be reconstructed.
“We are at the epoch of simultaneity. We are at the moment when our experience of the world is less that a long life developing though time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein”.: Foucoult
Under Construction is an interactive collage that contends a multiplicity of simultaneous possibilities that the subject can execute. At this way, the spectator determines by his elections how the project occurs. This allows showing the complex net of relations that conforms our environment. An environment where, with the same material -the quotidian-, different stories may happen.
Under Construction offers to the viewer the possibility to create its own city, and to convert a collective space into an individual one, by means of a trip impossible to map, in which the space is constructed according to will and desire. As the monadic passer by Deleuze and Guattari the spectator plans his journey at the same time he executes it.
Via a drifting journey over different images taken from the reality and belonging to different cities and environments, the interacting person follows his impulses choosing among different options in form of typical urban elements content on the represented landscape. At this way the images are assembled shaping, with each click, new and unpredictable cityscapes.
The work is formed by 160 images taken from photographs of various cityscapes. The combination of all these images comes to form more than 400 possible landscapes that are formed depending upon the selections of the viewer who is also guided by the sounds emitted by the different elements. These sounds are recordings taken in these different environments.
