URBAN NESTS
Concept, design, original drawings, photos and texts
Diana Cabeza
Tutor
Andrea Saltzman
Lighting
Pablo Pizarro
Construction
M. Ferrucci
G. Buccella
Music
Ariel Simanovich
Video
Natalia Ardissone
Ezequiel Kobrinsky
Exhibition
Safety Nest, Río de Janeiro
Curators
Paola Antonelli
Nicola Goretti
Year
2005
The Urban Nests project is about research, interpretation and re-elaboration of the refuge of the “urban nomad” who, being rejected by society, finds shelter in the re-utilization of the refuse and rubbish that society generates, thus creating a habitable environment. The project entails reflecting on how people fulfill their need for protection in a context of absolute precariousness and destitution. Thus, a destitute person builds “containers/supports” that resemble something in between a sleeping bag and a room, to be understood as an interface between body and space, for either internal or external use. In this walk-through, we will see and understand how to create an inside in the outside, and how, in an external space, make the exterior as your own interior. While living and feeling this installation the audience will be able to understand what it is to be near that situation of helplessness in which this nomad builds his/her “urban shelter” or “safety nest”. The public will perceive how to create “a place in the non-place”; privacy in the public realm; absence in the urban limelight; to be covered with urban nakedness and to be protected in precariousness.