Citizens of Awareness
2019
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATION, WALK, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT
The project is in progress. The publication consists of three main elements.
The first element is the documentation of walks by the artist in the city. The reader is guided by descriptive directing of the city instead of directional directing and encouraged to observe city life and its architectural aesthetics.
The second element is an invitation to the reader to records their own textual, visual, audible observations. The third element is a citation of the official laws related to sites and places the reader visits in the walk. The laws revolve around the use of space and the relations among individual, state, and space.
The project is a reflection on the accumulated and accelerated nature of late capitalism in Alexandria as a port city as well as the process of privatizing what is already privatized. Also, it is an invitation to the audience to observe the city to draw out conclusions about their relationship to it and investigate the authoritarian and socio-economic mechanics in public and hybrid-public spaces.
