Acciones. El efecto Goya

NO PUBLIC SPACE IN THE CITYPrevious to the time of tourism and cultural production in cities, there was a time of occupation.  This occupation is done differently in different cities. I have been tracing the way it have been done in the city of Madrid, in the late 1990´s under a major form the right party, marking the city by statues and in the late 2000´s filling up any public spaces with restaurant ands bars. The Goya Effect-Filling up the city of Madrid with statues Beyond the aesthetic and political implications of marking the city with this items, it is important to realize that part of the cultural budget was used for statues and that the architects commissioned to do then (there was no open competition for the statues) were working in Spain during the dictatorship. The last part of the project you can see stills from a video game to destroy the statues.This project was done in collaboration with Jaime Solano in 2000.