THE ROUTE

A car's red light. A woman whith a whit shirt with green stripes (or vice-versa?). The word Clean printed on a dump truck. The detail of a crosswalk. The seemingly disconection of this photos, shot in two weekends of january 2009, vanishes when the format that becomes recognizable as the map in which they are published is zoomed: the geotagged images draw a palestinian flag over the streets of Higienópolis (neighborhood in São Paulo that concentrates the biggest number of Jews in the city).

The project was motivated by the sequence of news about Israel's militar interventions on the Gaza Strip, that occupied a lot of space on the media, on the beginning of 2009. The topic is polemic and allows the most different views, usually gutsy and built with apparently irreconcilable arguments. By proposing a symbolic superimposition between both cultures, nowadays in a conflict as violent as unequal, the work proposes an utopy in which the overlaying of net and world should stimulate greater dialog between the different cultures the connect.

Metaphor of possible coexistences, in a world increasingly resistant to plurality. In a very intense moment of economical and ideological crisis, and a conservative escalade in Europe on the very moment Obama becomes the president of the United States, the gesture aims to stimulate a wide reflection on the complexities of contemporary politics. A GPS drawing that aims to re-map cartography.

about LAT-23
(Claudio Bueno, Denise Agassi, Marcus Bastos and Nacho Durán) The group develops online experimental maps, aiming to deconstruct traditional cartography by exploring the possibilities offered by popular tools, such as Google Maps and Picasa.