City of Madness

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Inspired by the ungoverned settlement Kowloon Walled City that once existed near Hong Kong, two versions of “City of Madness” have already been constructed.

They reflect on the continuous processes of artificialization of human life and the experience of reality is expressed by the construction and reconstruction ad aeternum of a shelter formed by technological waste – these artifacts of modernity. Evoking the concepts of technology, mediation and interference, accumulation and waste. Products are piled up, structures are manipulated, space is confined – a spectator is invited to a moment of recollection, a reflection on our relationship with the world dictated by technique, about the constant human agency in the exploration and production of its environment. (Andreia César, by the occasion of WIP at MUTE