YOUR TEXT HERE by marcos zotes

‘YOUR TEXT HERE’ by marcos zotes

with cities constantly telling us what to do, what to think, and how to act, using explicit visual language, a multiplicity of billboards, signs, images and symbols invade that our public spaces to tell us something, ‘YOUR TEXT HERE’ by architect marcos zotes of unstable, is a project that challenges this condition: citizens are given the opportunity to change their role as receivers of information in order become the authors. 

the participatory, site-specific light installation aims at empowering local communities by providing a tool that transforms people voices into citizen proclamations the size of buildings. these members of the audience are invited to submit anonymous text messages through their mobile phones with total freedom of speech, engaging in a dynamic dialogue with the city. 

the façade of a large heat production plant is transformed into a giant display board that reflects the variety of voices existent in the area. during two nights, thousands of citizens gathered in the street as a community, where they publicly shared their feelings, identities, secrets, criticism, wisdom, support, advice, and frustrations. more than 1,000 anonymoustext messages were submitted. each of them was instantly projected for about 10 to 20 seconds on a loop across the entire event. the space became an arena for debate, a catalyst for social interaction.

performed as part of dlectricity, an outdoors light art festival in midtown detroit that took place during october 5th and 6th, 2012.

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