teresa solar abboud
carlos fernández-pello

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• 2008
• el juego dentro del juego
• turismo cultural
• el reconocimiento
• the something chorus
• la digestión de la vaca

• 2007
• wireless call
• dibujando un espacio

• Información / Information
• curriculum vitae
• contacto / contact

the -something- chorus

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This project works with the memorial benches that are spread all over Cannizaro park.
The nature of these seats and their placement in the open space generate an interesting relation between the rules of public space and the private memorabilia.

The bench constitutes a public piece of furniture placed on the streets, on the parks or on squares and normally depends on the town council. The council also takes care of cleaning the streets and the walls of common use, meaning that any trace of personal use of space, of
individuality, is erased in order to maintain the public space clean.
Due to this normal practice, public spaces end up being empty of memory, they are completely amnesiac, only full of present, the only time that can not be cleaned yet.

In contrast, memorial seats introduce private messages that remain in the public space. This process, that governments use to raise fundings, collides with their “cleaning policy”; these messages remind us that the streets can be places for memory, rather than for walking or spending. Moreover, the park benches reveal an interesting contrast when they are understood as “funerary” architecture that is placed within leisure spaces.

The work stems from this concern and merges with the idea of language, place, name and identity which are key to our practice.

The piece consists of 40 different short stories - while only 38 benches are portrayed -, about the issues of private space and common space, delimitation and relation, the absurd and the real. Each of the stories corresponds to one of the 40 benches in the park and all of them are based on the names of the tributed, whereas in some cases, both the place and the physicial conditions contribute to the story.

The result is a choral play in which the object of the plot remains unrevealed.

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