Public performance, during "Altrolato - Art and crafts for urban redevelopment", Fondamenta S.Simeon Piccolo and Fondamenta dei Tolentini, Venice, Italy.
Fakemaps of the city designed to disorient those who use them. These maps - inspired by the errant ancient cartography - are the answer to satellite omniscience of our devices and to the predictability of standard routes. The purpose: to get lost and be willing to meet the unexpected.
The best map of Venice is a fake map!
The imprecision of ancient maps made the world more interesting. Technological perfection makes the world more boring.
Venice is one of the world capitals of the touristic alienation.
According to Plato, being puzzled is the origin of philosophy.
This project is inspired by the concept of dérive.
The dérive is a revolutionary strategy by Guy Debord. He defines the dérive as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances." It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations and "let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there".
The dérive's goals include studying the terrain of the city (psychogeography) and emotional disorientation, both of which lead to the potential creation of Situations.
The dérive was a critical tool for understanding and developing the theory of psychogeography, defined as the "specific effects of the geographical environment (whether consciously organized or not) on the emotions and behavior of individuals."
Dérives are necessary, according to Situationist theory, because of the increasingly predictable and monotonous experience of everyday life in advanced capitalism.
The hand-held camera emphasizes the comic and ironic nature of the action.
