REDline’08

REDline’08_Bordering on Us

This year’s edition of REDline is framed by the ideas of community, identity and representation. With a particular focus on the public space and public art, Bordering on Us is a project that wishes to produce a discussion on the strategies art has to occupy the public space and how it deals and relates with the passer-by. Also, how is public art, in its languages and processes, appropriated by power (political, economical, etc.) in processes of cultural definition and legitimization of its actions. Because it does not inhabit the protected space of the museum and has its grounds on a perpetually disputed territory, Public Art has been forced to choose different strategies in order to impose its presence. It is more often seen as a tool than as an end, reversely to what happens now in the fields of contemporary art. With this project we also aim to approach an understanding on how artistic creation is present in contemporary processes of identity representation, being those processes promoted by individuals, communities, governments or private enterprises. We feel that the concept of Public Space presently needs to be extended to the territories recently created by the new communication technologies. The blogosphere is rapidly affirming itself as a reference site for public discussion, being internet one of the largest and most inclusive forums ever created by mankind. We need to understand how we are starting to build landmarks in these spaces, lending our identity to them in proprietary actions.

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