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Healing Cotton Balls (Ouch)

Artists: Claudia Sandoval and Marrikka Trotter
Location: Rua Agusta con Fernando, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date: 3/29/2008

Every city tenses at its thresholds – the zones between public and private are always fortified, whether physically or virtually, through architectural strategies, manned patrols, security cameras and systems, or combinations of all of these.  This small-scale intervention was intended to respond to a common strategy of threshold defense in Sao Paulo, spikes set in concrete, in a way that both called attention to a habitual tactic of urban defense, and sought to temporarily appropriate an aggressive infrastructure with a small act of gentleness and delight. more info

 

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