aggiustare
Grassello di calce spread out by hand, song that calls for common participation in fixing things based on research on Palermitana market songs.
Aggiustare is a site specific work in the Piazza Garraffello, Palermo, Italy. It comments and critiques how local infrastructures and commons are severely neglected and in consequence are privatized and gentrified, and/or controlled by the mafia. While these two exist in a tense situation, local citizens feel powerless and stop caring about buildings and their urban environment. The work practically counters this and hosts an action with locals to fix one wall in the city.
The work asks what does it mean to fix things in the context of Palermo, of La Vucceria, and even further in, of Piazza Garraffello? This question struck me as I heard about the redevelopment plans of the cities leading architects to fix the surrounding old buildings in Garraffello, and the cities collaboration with Manifesta to redevelop the whole old city that is the heart of Palermo. In this question I realized, synchronistically from other research I had been doing.
The work took on a life of it's own and became a viral image site in Palermo.
Photographs of performance by Angela Benivegna. Photographs of wall by Timo Tuhkanen and Egle Oddo.
Aggiustare is a site specific work in the Piazza Garraffello, Palermo, Italy. It comments and critiques how local infrastructures and commons are severely neglected and in consequence are privatized and gentrified, and/or controlled by the mafia. While these two exist in a tense situation, local citizens feel powerless and stop caring about buildings and their urban environment. The work practically counters this and hosts an action with locals to fix one wall in the city.
The work asks what does it mean to fix things in the context of Palermo, of La Vucceria, and even further in, of Piazza Garraffello? This question struck me as I heard about the redevelopment plans of the cities leading architects to fix the surrounding old buildings in Garraffello, and the cities collaboration with Manifesta to redevelop the whole old city that is the heart of Palermo. In this question I realized, synchronistically from other research I had been doing.
The work took on a life of it's own and became a viral image site in Palermo.
Photographs of performance by Angela Benivegna. Photographs of wall by Timo Tuhkanen and Egle Oddo.
