A Social Interface Traveling Through The City Streets
An object migrating from the suburbs to the city center and back will become a symbolic interface, a temporary space established with the aim of connecting Lublin’s communities and social groups. The objective of this permanent happening is an attempt at discovering the answers to some fundamental questions: how can it be made possible to achieve a balance, a connection between the analog off-line culture, which is strictly bound to the nature of the places which people inhabit, and the modern, digital and virtual on-line culture, where it is not the place where one lives that is of any importance, but rather the fact of one’s belonging to particular communities; how can bonds and connections between people representing those two different cultures be forged, and how can they become involved in a mutually collaborative creative process.
An object reminiscent of a giant banner, which will be put into motion by people, will serve as the manifestation and the embodiment of the needs which can be in summarized in the ambivalent slogan “Let’s connect together communities of every type, form and stripe”. In order to create the object and determine the path of its migration , the artist intends to collaborate with the citizens of the City Of Lublin, in a search for places which can be combined into a socio-historical “map” comprised of three reference points: exclusion, borderline and dialogue. Through the use of his individual interpretation of the working methods which a programmer/architect employs within an actual, physical city space, the artist aims to accomplish his project’s main task - the development of an artistic framework within which different types of communities can discover their own creative potential.
The project was being worked on by 5 chosen communities (Cultural Center Bronowice, Skarpa Cultural Center, Unblazed Trail Foundation, Klanza Association, Łopaciński Library) from October 3 through 6.