Code: (16.b.BL4)
Title: BL4CKØUT
/// Authors: Victor Mazón + JARD
/// Year: 2016
/// Prize: Co-winner in the competition Europe Lighting Festival Kassel
/// Prmtrs: Noise Horror Vacui Visual Corporal Error Color Nocturnalia Kairos Days No (i) Legal Commons Quotidian Visibilise Control Otherness Collaborative Ad hoc Awarded Exposed
Turning off “public” lighting for a dedicated period of time [~ 5 min.] in order to generate/induce critic atmosphere
| SEE MORE | The project it´s mentioned as an action that links time, absent and emptiness full filed with interior/personal references to the power of public lighting, natural light and personal space. From a social state it´s intended to create a [parenthesis] on daily synchronization to urban life and citizenship common periods. Public resources are dislocated in time to engage a reflexive act about contemporary urban electric resources from a minimalistic and conceptual approach. The conceptual position tries to contrast money and time investment on the production of an art project, proposing a simple action/thinking, but with a radical implication of citizenship and social thinking. The project involves an internal negotiation with the local government, the electric company which controls the public lighting and festival staff. All generated documentation will be released as an open edition with all produced media: electronic measurement of unused electricity, audiovisual documentation, photography, texts and related projects and incidents during [blackout] periods. | SEE LESS |