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FIREWORKS

 

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1.1 Fireworks on its common notion are a spectacle. The effects produced by them can be arousing and mysthical, sometimes beyond rational comprehension. The cause of these effects are no other than mechanical and technical. They never go beyond the science of pyrotechnics.

1.2 Fireworks intends to be a tool to (re)enchant not only on the surface level, but on a deeper level the urban stages of the contemporary city.

1.3 Fireworks on the urban stage is not to be taken literal, it is about the mechanisms to create the illusion, the spectacle. The mechanisms of production are more important than the show itself.

1.4 Fireworks themselves cannot fight against the global forces of consumption and mono-cultural institutions, that constitute the fuel of the contemporary city. Fireworks must be used as a mask. They constitute a strategy of disguise, to hide and implant other desired actions.

branding:

Fireworks connect people through the spectacle. They promote the unity of different individuals by the overwhelming attraction of the performance on stage.

earth:

In the 17th century the French used Fireworks and other devices to change the decor of the stage from one scene to the other. Whitout the audience perceiving anything, a physical transformation of the stage ocurred.

flow:

The flows of money and information, and their speeds, are crucial in a society of consumption. The faster you know, the more you have. Fireworks become embedded by just riding on these flows.

incorporation:

Fireworks have an adaptative quality, they are a common object that, due to its normality, merges into the built environment and broader institutional bodies.

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