[Nettime-nl] sawubona [i see you]

[Marieke Istha <istha@nimk.nl>]

sawubona [i see you]

Come and see sawubona [i see you] an interactive installation in former 
RedDistrict window...

March 30, 2010
Location:  Bergstraat 14, Amsterdam
Time: 8:30 pm

'Sawubona', zulu for ' i see you', is a collaborative work between Lilia 
Perez Romero (MX / NL) and Doung Anwar Jahangeer (Mauritius/ ZA). The 
work is a subtle interactive video installation's in a previous sex 
workers window at Bergstraat 14, in the RedLight district Amsterdam.
Conceptually investigating the idea that people in space make place, 
'Sawubona' roots itself in the Ubuntu " umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" . A 
zulu humanist philosophy meaning that 'a person is a person through 
other persons'. The work is a critique on the rampant global-capitalist 
dehumanising tendencies of city making. It offers its audience an 
opportunity to re-discover the one in the other . Michel De Certeau 
(1984) in his book on the practice of everyday life became an advocate 
of the narratives told by pedestrians in the city.
Not verbalised or written in text, people traverse through space 
creating spatial narratives in an organic fashion. This provides an 
intelligent alternative to the disciplined, rational use of space 
defined by planners, architects, engineers and owners of capital.
The works also takes the responsibility to be site responsive. Choosing 
to be in the RedLight District is a comment how space becomes 
conditioned and in this case in the commodification of the 'being human' 
specially of the female gender in the realm of sex work.The artists 
recognise that the dehumanising efforts in space making is consistently 
intrinsic to some human practices.

The intention is that of an exposure of an existing parallel reality and 
hopefully to create a shift in our minds towards the way we perceive the 
other.

Lou Reed puts it nicely "...you are my mirror , reflect what i am....".

This art project is part of 'The Media City' workshop, hosted at the 
Netherlands Media Art Institute. Kindly supported by Mondriaan Foundation.

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
http://www.nimk.nl





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