CRACKS IN CIVILIZED LANDSCAPES
(2013)
Project by Adriana (de Luiza) and Ife (da Sylvia)
"Cracks in Civilized Landscapes" is a site-specific-public-art-queer-feminist-performance that challenges architecture [private homes, religious, institutions, hospitals, military building, monuments, etc as a patriarchal authority, sexual hierarchies and distinct gender differentiation]. Filming ourselves [me + ex- partner] in the process of fucking in a church, a castle, a museum, a bank and other monuments, we try to deconstruct their sacred, heroic and sexist dimension. We infiltrate these buildings to decipher the oppressive power beyond their formal aspect. /"Spaces determines, control, affects behavior and participates in defining the sexual division of labor "We use sex as a revolutionary process of desecration, "the phallic tower block concretely, represents an era which has been dominated by patriarchy, authority, and hierarchy; which has been brutally moulded by the forces of colonialism, imperialism, and state domination over many hundreds of years... this way large-scale architecture provides the most dramatic visual examples of the relationship between space and power" . The film is punctuated by an abstract poem. This work was created with a lot of humor.
Places - 1 Government building / 2 Tree / 3 Empire State / 4 St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral/ 5 Islamic Cultural Center / 6 Military San Joao Fort in Urca Rio se Janeiro / 7 Metropolitan Museum / 8 Chase Bank Wall Street, / 9 Eiffel Tower / 10 Arch of Triumph / 11 Louvre / 12 Limousine, NYC / 13 Castle Switzerland
