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Biccerija Workshop

2016 Alberto Favaro

Art installation and video

Created at the Biccerija Workshop

In collaboration with Design 4D city

Short Description

 Cleaning, fixing and creating public areas is luxury. Such services are extremely unfairly distributed around the city. Apparently there are spaces and people that deserve that, and others don’t. How did it happen that we got used accepting that millions are spent to pave some areas of the city with expensive stones, while other are not maintained at all, not even using just cheap asphalt ? How did it happen that we find so natural that a pile of smelly trash can “adorn” some corners of the city, but we get upset or disturbed in seeing and smelling the same pile placed in another neighborhood? How did it happen that cities (and inhabitants) are subjected to such an evident unequal treatment, and we find all this completely normal? And last but not the least, how come when some cleaning is finally done, not only the garbage is removed, but with it, even residences are displaced? ..Those are some of the reasons why garbage was purposely moved throughout the city…why a trash bin became golden….and why it is now placed in front of an historic niche on top of a XVII century fountain, as a reminder that architecture (even what we call heritage) should serve people (all), and not the opposite. To see more interventions and documentations of what was produced during the workshop “Design 4D city”, tonight for the notte Bianca, pass by the old Biccerija and at St Elmo, Valletta.

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