inVESTIR

MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT: VIRTUAL ART, POLITICS AND PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE

inVESTIR is a multidisciplinary project between Europe and North Africa, in which virtual art, politics and participatory intervention in the public space are intertwined in order to create an intercontinental dialogue. It structures itself in two phases:
1. A virtual phase: using online social networks, we get together people from North African states, building a temporary community and developing a fluid dialog. We chat about the present, identity, future perspectives, the way they perceive Europe, etc. These conversations serve as a ground for the second stage of the project.

2. i Collective selects relevant quotations from the dialogues and prints them on ecological fair trade T-shirts. We call for volunteers that would like introduce the words of North Africans in their own context, wearing these T-shirts in their everyday lives, as well as in an artistic event.
By doing so, inVESTIR proposes a transference of subjectivity dynamic, in terms of putting someone´s voice in somebody else´s body. Also, all these temporary communities the project fosters, come together in the social networks and the blog.

WHY NORTH AFRICA?

inVESTIR was firstly developed for Parallel Events Manifesta 8 Biennial in 2010, shortly before the Arab Spring and presented in Murcia, SPAIN. Through the social upheavals that started in North Africa in 2011 inVESTIR became more relevant as a pre-revolution archive of feelings, impressions and opinions from people living in those countries. In order to explore the changes that the Arab Spring brought in people´s consciousness, i Collective decided to continue the project in 2012. From then on,

More info:

www.proyectoinvestir.blogspot.com