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Maurício Dias and Walter Riedweg will map Praça da Concórdia,
this dense and apparently opaque space. But it is not a conventional urban map
that indicates the buildings and equipment location, the different forms of occupation
and activities. This does not matter here, where informal occupation dilutes all
distinctions and borders. In the impossibility to trace this fluid world contours
from its fixed elements, they work with what circulates: the products sold by
peddlers.
Which are these products? How are they manufactured and gotten? Who sells and
purchase them? How they circulate? The idea is to retrace the products itinerary,
as an exchange ring in a Polynesian island. The multiple circuits that interlace,
in continuous variation. These passages do not make a contour, do not establish
borders. They produce a moving pattern, without any structural form. A liquid
architecture and urbanism that only can be focused through its rhythm.
Short videos, as advertising spots, have been recorded with about a set of
ten peddlers, announcing their products and speaking of their lives. These videos
will be presented in their tents, recovered by canvases printed with their photo
portraits. In the center of the plaza, a small construction, of two floors, will
serve at the same time of image emission center, meeting point and belvedere.
A parallel device to the dominant advertising and communication circuit, to the
consumption and image universe that orient social insertion, is installed. The
identity and history of these agents, excluded from formal economy and other instances
of the citizenship, find its channel of manifestation. The video-broadcasting
network indicates the presence of each peddler, in a sort of cartography of the
area occupation.
The intervention proposed by Maurício Dias and Walter Riedweg does not
aim at imposing a program, but to follow the line, the movement. To draw the map
of the area mechanic of fluids. The web of relations established in the place,
however invisible through purely topological references, as the built and the
urban pattern. A curious overlapping of abstraction levels, the informal commerce
and televising broadcasting, pointing to other modalities of metropolitan integration.
Could informal occupation and commerce, although its perverse effect in legal
economy and urban landscape conservation, suggest other more flexible and dynamic
patterns to these vast interstitial spaces, the zones that spray out inside the
metropolises?
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