"Occasional Cities"
exhibition in Buenos Aires
The exhibition is part of the "Post-it-City", directed by Martà Peran, launched in 2005 during the seminars and workshops at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica in Barcelona. The research project emphasizes the use and temporary occupation of public space for commercial, recreational and sexual cities around the world.
As the curatorial team, this type of urban practices appear, move and disappear, as if it were a post-it notes places significant time, and that leaves almost no trace whatsoever. It is, in short, phenomena that highlight the different needs and deficiencies primarily affect certain groups and that recover the value of using public space.
The search for this type of odd jobs in the city from two different perspectives: first, emergencies that are forced to parasitize public space and, on the other, the capacity of citizens to optimize space beyond their intended purposes. With this dual perspective, the exhibition presents 90 cases of cities as diverse as Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Hanoi, Santiago de Chile, Bologna and Barcelona.
Post-it-City
City Post-it tries to explore the phenomenon of casual city in its many variants, with the aim of documenting and reflecting on it: an industrial estate that becomes an illegal circuit on weekends, use of the city "under construction" for nerds adventure explorers, certain variants of the squatter phenomenon, the use certain terrains vagues for casual encounters, a nomadic camp, a rave party, "the conversion of the campus day in a sexual transaction during the night, etc.
is a project that, in the set of parameters that comes into play, leads to a number of issues of particular interest to contemporary culture: the need create spaces available, the versatility of the idea of \u200b\u200brecycling, the emergence of new subjectivities, among others.
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