Wedding in the Sky with Bottles
Performing Places Project, 2003, © the team members
Proposal Text
Keyword of our project: Recycling
We understand the term recycling as a process of using old material in order to create something entirely new, at the same time preserving its original feature.
The aim:
By making a bride out of old plastic bottles, we intend to offer an example for giving a new life to man forsaken places. Our project will consist as much as possible of used material.
The concept:
The abundance of bridal shops in the old center area made our team, think of conceiving the whole former center of Bucharest as a bride.
We created an imaginary wedding between a beautiful bride with a valuable, but neglected dowry (centuries of history of a once flourishing zone), and a groom, who is to provide for a dignifying future, yet to arrive. The groom shall be impersonated by officials in charge with the reconstruction (e.g. Traian Basescu); Simulation of a wedding banquet.
The bride will be a ten meter high construction made of five thousand plastic bottles found on the site. Their use is related to the necessity of cleaning the streets of old Bucharest, as the urban debris left on the streets hugely contribute to its unappealing aspect of today.
Our project is to be perceived as a story, which takes place at two distinct levels, the concrete and the abstract level:
At the concrete level, the actions taking place in the differently colored and renamed streets represent the steps of reconstruction, as they are experienced by a constructor/architect.
At the abstract level, these stages represent the states of mind of the human being in his journey to heaven.
The bride will be placed in a parking lot, the sky, the centre to which the trail of the six streets shall lead. The colors stand for the states of mind prior to the wedding, the completeness. The sky-metaphor reveals the contrast between the present state of the site and the possibility of its change. By walking through the colored streets, we get closer to happiness.
1. The Physical (stage): On Lipscani street we will arrange beds with heavy, earth filled sacks, as a metaphor of the burden of matter. As we have noticed the lack of benches in the area, visitors will be invited to sit on the beds and rest.
2. The Emotion: On Hanul Soarelui passage, flower-sellers will offer their merchandise free of charge, in exchange for helping the team cover a part of Hanul Soarelui with flowers (=ephemeral improvement of its aspect).
3. The Reason: A net of randomly and complexly arranged strings, similar to the structure of the human mind on Zarafi.
4. The Intuition: On The French Passage path of golden veils to be crosses. (Night attraction.)
5. The Spiritual: On Gabroveni, mock selling of virtues: colored liquids in bottles in exchange for written opinions hung on the Reason Street.
6. The Sacrifice: Repeated performances of building in of a member of the team.
7. The Wedding in the sky: celebration of the future of Bucharest’s former centre.
Entering the bride’s interior: visualizing the bride’s memory: projections of former times weddings in the neighborhood.
Wedding in the Sky Team:
Anca Sanpalean
Andrei Margulescu
Cristina Craciun
Cristian Buliarca
Oana Avram
Team Leader: Delia Popa
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