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P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Public Sculpture | Kings of the Street 

P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. PUBLIC SCULPTURE
2002


public sculpture


public sculpture


public sculpture

 


You have undoubtedly noticed, at particular times of the year on the streets of various city centers, certain mound-like forms that appear overnight and then after only a few days are gone. After analyzing and investigating this phenomenon more carefully we have come to the following conclusions:

  • PPS originates spontaneously in urban environments: on streets, in courtyards, next to apartment towers, by garden fences, in apartment-block communities and neighborhoods.
  • PPS originates as the result of the exchange and gift economies of the local population and is linked to the micro-economy and micro-ecology of relationships.
  • PPS directly reflects economic wealth/poverty, personal taste, and creativity.
  • PPS is a temporary form. It changes constantly through unloading, shifting, adding, removing, and so on.

A sequence of offering and exchange is created before our very eyes, and PPS originates as a by-product of these processes. Conclusion: PPS is an example of détournement in its purest form ("all elements, taken from whatsoever, can become the object of new realities").

 

> realised by
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art


> produced by
PMCA