Παρασκευή 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2015

Action in the streets - Documentation - Idea Development

The past week I have been trying to come up with ways to ineract with people in the streets by installing objects or posters/stickers. The aim of what I will put in the streets is to make people reconsider their daily walk in the streets and how they perceive anything around them. Anything that is common, usual and trivial could be highlighted and presented in a new way. Like saying to passers-by "Hey, have you noticed this???"

For the past five months I have been taking pictures in the streets of Norwich of details that most of the people do not often notice or perceive as significant. Things like street signs, abandoned objects, lines, drains, patterns and random messages. Here are a few examples: 










All the pictures are uploaded om Instagram , in a profile that I created under the name "norwich_streets". I am very intrigued by messages in the streets, mostly handwritten ones. While cities are branded by authorities and city councils, all those unexpected and spontaneous handwritten messages or human touches prove how the cities belong to the people. 

I am not talking about any illegal action. Writing something with your own hand , be it a notice, announcement, putting something for sale, or sending your message out to the world by using 
a non digital medium is an action of great importance amidst our current digital era.



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