The City as Page
2021
Public art intervention / happening
Painted banners, collective walk, Super 8 and 16mm film, medium-format photography
13 October 2021, Faculty of Fine Arts and the Júcar gorge, Cuenca
Considering the city as a text or a page, a receiving surface on which processes of representation gather, La ciudad como página took a set of large banners bearing texts out of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cuenca. Some fifty participants carried them in a slow, collective march along the Júcar gorge towards the mountain, pausing around the San Antón bridge, so that the texts could be read from changing distances and points of view across the city and its landscape.
Combining film, painting, action and the walk as an aesthetic form, the piece proposed a performative map: the city as page, text in motion.
Filmed on Super 8 and 16mm with five cameras by Saru Miras, Olaya Martínez, Tzuhan Hung, Alejo Duque and Esperanza Collado
Medium-format photography: Antonio Corrales
With students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Supported by Patronato Universitario Gil de Albornoz