Questionaire: Vectorial Elevation

1. With what kind of Intention the real public urban space was chosen as place for the project? Are everybody's accessibility all day or public sphere… an important issue for the project?

Everything that takes place in public space has political dimensions. My biases are usually manifested through certain choices, but in general I believe that one of the roles of the artist is not so much to provide moralistic commentary but rather to create spaces for participation, where a plurality of positions may emerge. Participation itself is a strong political element, particularly as the public sphere loses its claim to "represent" the people that may occupy it. The Zócalo's monumental size makes the human scale seem insignificant, a fact that some Mexican scholars consider an emblem of a monolithic political legacy; there are almost one thousand protests a year in this site and yet its scale drowns most of them. In order to have an impact on this square it was necessary to deploy very powerful equipment. Despite the power of the installation my intention was a quiet, slowly fluctuating space for reflection in a city that does not need any more aggression.

2. Shall the project make a special contribution for a new "better" public space? And what importance in that context has the use of new media?

My work attempts to introduce alien memory as an urban catalyst. We use large-scale technologies of amplification that are usually reserved for special something. It is always exciting to exploit them in ways they were not intended. I think work in public space should destabilize these prefabricated stereotypes. Technology is inseparable from contemporary identity I think artists use technology explicitly as a way to understand and criticise from within some of the paradoxes of our culture.