Slovenian artist and architect Marjetica Potrc said that ''cities have the will of their own''. Is that a thought that we could apply to any city, in any period, or does it depend on the place and the specific moment in the (political) history of the city?
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The city is a living organism.
Architecture, visual aesthetics of the streets, voices and smells, sounds and stories, its ''handwritings''... But what is the city and who is the city?
The life of the city, its specific energy and visual language of the streets can be created by their users, inhabitants, but it is also formed by other, outer authorities e.g. economy, government, different policies of public space, and similar.
My occupation with the phenomenon of wild postering came as a consequence of personal delight in poetics of the street-scenery which creates this characteristic phenomenon, but it also manifests a personal micro-resistance towards the existing tendency to sterilize and ''passivize'' the living space (physically and mentally).
Contrary to the commercial forms of advertising; huge, aggressive and sterile citylights, billboards and wallscapes, these places present the living tissue of the city; the part of the public space which successfully escapes control, manipulation and organising, which ignores the legal regulations and develops organically by its own laws.
Wild postering brings spontaneity to the public space of the city, creates colorful scenes in the city streets, shapes an autonomous area of sharing information.
Until recently, the streets chosen for running this project were prolific spots of wild postering.
Recently, the characteristic locations have regularly being cleaned and marked with captions: ''Zabranjeno plakatiranje'' (''Postering prohibited''). Slowly but surely one thing becomes obvious - the tendency to erase this ''disgraceful'' appearances from the city surface.
...
The city is a living organism.
Architecture, visual aesthetics of the streets, voices and smells, sounds and stories, its ''handwritings''... But what is the city and who is the city?
The life of the city, its specific energy and visual language of the streets can be created by their users, inhabitants, but it is also formed by other, outer authorities e.g. economy, government, different policies of public space, and similar.
My occupation with the phenomenon of wild postering came as a consequence of personal delight in poetics of the street-scenery which creates this characteristic phenomenon, but it also manifests a personal micro-resistance towards the existing tendency to sterilize and ''passivize'' the living space (physically and mentally).
Contrary to the commercial forms of advertising; huge, aggressive and sterile citylights, billboards and wallscapes, these places present the living tissue of the city; the part of the public space which successfully escapes control, manipulation and organising, which ignores the legal regulations and develops organically by its own laws.
Wild postering brings spontaneity to the public space of the city, creates colorful scenes in the city streets, shapes an autonomous area of sharing information.
Until recently, the streets chosen for running this project were prolific spots of wild postering.
Recently, the characteristic locations have regularly being cleaned and marked with captions: ''Zabranjeno plakatiranje'' (''Postering prohibited''). Slowly but surely one thing becomes obvious - the tendency to erase this ''disgraceful'' appearances from the city surface.
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