Francesco Jodice: CITYTELLERS
Marta Cervera Gallery: until early April.
(original article in 'arte10.com': http://www.arte10.com/noticias/index.php?id=386 )
If it is somewhere to direct the architectural concerns, is to try to clarify the linkages that operate between subject and environment. In this regard, many current artistic practices emphasize the processes of subjectification in direct relation to the environment-the preeminent city-stop, from there, carrying out a sociological study about the real-if still existing conditions from to think a free and autonomous subject. Francesco Jodice in your project Citytellers, has documented since 2006 a number of places, macrourbes mostly to show us that the exclusion of promoting a socio-political system based on the show - and the separation speed limit operates Inside, "is our most essential destination.
"Today we have implemented the three divine attributes: the ubiquity, immediacy and immediacy, the total vision and total power. This has nothing to do with democracy, but tyranny. " Paul Virilio, architect by training, he who speaks so clear in relation to the apocalypse of a society as ours, which has demolished all legacy illustrated.
In this regard, the catastrophe of the ethical and practical dictates of modernity converted into mere individual survival, the city, once a prominent place in social community, has become the moment for the representation of same contradictions of modernity. And it is in the city where, more urgently than anywhere else, is carrying out the prophetic statement Baudrillard: "One day, society will be perfectly done and there will only be excluded."
Francesco Jodice, also a trained architect, raised in the exhibition can be seen until early April in Marta Cervera Gallery, a privileged tour of three cities to confront the contradictions that are subject the primates of modernity and its full scan every sphere of sociality and community.
In this sense, Jodice appeals to the architecture is not in any way to gloss the concept archimanoseado and non-privileged site-incarnation of the postmodern-apolitical, nor to rely on a diffuse spectacle of megalomania of architecture, but to bind to a sociological reflection on the relationship between humans and the urban environment around him.
is the man, the citizen and his relationship with the social environment that matters, architecture being the perfect representation of that mediation, once buried in the dialectic of the simulation, the maelstrom of hiperaceleración, has become a perfect simulation for a system that takes the show to its particular Weltanschauung. If the show is, as Debord "The main production of current society, to Jodice interested in architecture as hypervisibility element from which to dissect the network of macrourbes ghostly today.
In this regard, the video Citytellers Dubai is only symptomatic. With less oil than their neighbors, the chiefs decided to bring to it the western-disciplinary production system but in its most spectacular. Mass calling the hedge fund, promising what imprometible allowing the macrotransacciones game, taking a simulated democracy, which seemed perfectly reconciled to the secular and the religious Muslim world, Dubai eventually sink into the mud on which it had risen.
In the video Jodice, buildings that are postmodern pastiche of high-tech version, with the coarseness of the Pharaonic hiperespectacular are discovered in the unbearable reality that hides behind: Employees hired en masse by the call petrodollar, are imprisoned and exposed to extremely low survival conditions to collect enough money to go back to their countries.
Confined suburbs not to bother the 5 star luxury experience you are looking for the occasional tourist, workers are brought in and taken by bus to, as soon as it finishes its journey of 15 hours be returned to its place. Slavery and segregation, overcrowding and survival are the realities in which they live-safe even today despite the crash suffered by the city-the worker.
Aral Citytellers focuses on an area which, after a technical error due to the need to provide water to the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya to irrigate crops, has become a vast desert. What was once the Aral Sea, the fourth largest in the world today is a DRYLAND where people struggle to survive in appalling conditions.
The third video, Sao Paulo Citytellers Shows us the ins and outs of a city, Sao Paulo, with about 18 million people in self-management has a major weapons to fight against despotism and incompetence of politicians. Jodice gives voice to different groups of people - graffiti, helicopter pilots, armored car dealers, collectors cards of the street to conclude that today, if the city is hoarding privileged to instill the value of subjectification processes is due to the fact that trace and mark the most basic strategies for creating identification processes: bunkerization and supervivneica, hypervigilance and crime, exclusion and marginalization.
The three videos as part of the project Citytellers begun in 2006, give a good account of the current situation facing a final reality: that globalization, far from utopian destination Belhumeur of humanity has arrived last foothills clean and healthy progress, the tontuna global village but does not refer to a process-simulation and comprehensive as they should be now all processes, which is in the exclusion aldeanización and its negative pole.
While, on the one hand, globalization falls squarely within the processes that have sought to expand on an notions of universality on which stands the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is nonetheless true that in its implementation in any production demolition of sense-of-identity and sociability brings, have ended up violating all political and social scheme established on the basis of justice and equality, to operate a bloody dialectic speculation-and, not too spectacular, on which to establish the victory of hyper.
architectures shown in the wild by Jodice in the phantasmagoria of Arab grandeur, in the motley claustrophobic space condensation Sao Paulo, in the desert led by technological development of the environment, the only thing clear is that attempts to silence all in the simulation of globalization as the last refuge of progress and overdevelopment, there is only the latest twist to the full establishment of the disciplinary and precise control strategy.
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