The role of art in disrupting the tourism experience.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Call closing: March 9 exhibition: April 12 - May 17
Imagining hypertourism as a tidal wave, an irrepressible and catastrophic natural event, it is easy to witness the inescapable and violent marginalization of poorer communities. The hypocenter can be identified at the level of the social ladder that determines who is excluded and who toasts these losses. The celebrated city users modulate the height of the destructive waves of touristification through their consumption activities. The first element of conflict emerges; the needs of tourists clash with those of the inhabitants, stifling the latter and manipulating the city's economy. Understood as an organism in which several different agents coexist symbiotically, the city is overwhelmingly replaced with a simulacrum of itself, a non-place, soulless and alienating, in which the law of homogenization and profitability reigns, instituted by a chronophagous and extractivist capitalism. It becomes increasingly urgent to construct practices of opposition to the sordid activities of dispossession of territories and bodies, imagining a hybrid, subversive reality, contaminated by fluid and liberated identities.
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NEW MEDIA / INSTALLATION / SOUNDART / LIGHTART / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART
Theə artistə is asked to reason about the dichotomy of inhabiting-visiting, about what it means to discover a territory outside colonialist logics, to live it with care and creativity, and again, about the possibility of creating a space animated and inhabited by human, animal, and mechanical bodies, intimately connected and aimed at the abatement of relationships based on exploitation, oppression and profit.