My street
Feb 21, 2010
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We love streets. The street is a beginning, a journey, a love affair, an end. A street is something that everyone has. It gives us a common ground, a possibility to share. The street (or my immediate neighborhood) is the perfect place that is still very small to be „mine“, to belong to my personal identity, and big enough, at the same time, to represent society, rules, culture and norms that influence us on an invisible level. We can see the street as a „micro model“ of the society – a place where we clash with others, learn to understand and keep borders, realize our free will and choices. If we could observe and understand how we influence the streets we live in and how the streets influence us – we could than probably start to observe differently also our place in bigger social and collective constructs.
Raycho Stanev
This is a fantastic book and a great website. we have just hosted this group of artists at ‘The Edge’ in Birmingham, artist-led space. they presented the project, the book and we were intrigued and amazed that their publisher, Mano was a key and integral part of their artist team a very non-traditional way of working. we have a video of their talk if anyone is interested http://www.frictionarts.com it was creative, full of integrity and beautiful. thanks Sandra.
Comment by Sandra Hall
6. March 2010 @ 15:42