... "One of the exhibitions that caught my interest a little while back was a show called Supernatural, put together by the artist collective Pink Pony Express. In February this year they transformed an empty building in the Kolenkitbuurt in Amsterdam West (dubbed the city’s worst neighbourhood in 2009) into a pop-up exhibition space. On the floor of the space they made a mosaic installation using old bread from the local Muslim community. Bread, according to the Koran, is holy and should not end up with the other rubbish in the bin. In line with this, the local Muslims had left it out on the streets. Because this inevitably attracted rodents, the council provided containers so the bread could be recycled. But this recycling never happened. Instead, and to the anger of many who found out, the council drove it straight to the landfill. Pink Pony Express reacted to this and engineered a system where digesters are used to transform the energy in the old bread into gas, which can be used to heat buildings (or bake new bread). L'art pour society’s sake par excellence.
Curious to see what happened with the project, I met Tara Karpinski, one of the artists in the collective, for tea..."
Quien quiera seguir leyendo encontrará las bases de un interesante proyecto artístico de reciclaje reivindicativo de pan. Y también algunas reflexiones más generales sobre el arte y sus efectos de transformación social. Como el teatro documental y las identidades sexuales no normativas. Como la comedia y sus descubrimientos. Como la búsqueda de magdalenas/cupcakes para el desayuno. Y también la de la anarquía y las gominolas, Leonor mediante. A tope, que diría Julia Nicolau. Mañana tentativa de tatin de manzana y mucho más. Buenas noches.
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