|
10
INTEGRATED SERIES OF PUBLIC EXPERIMENTS / EVENTS WITH VARIOUS
MEDIA
ART
AND COMMUNICATION
12th
SAO PAULO BIENNIAL
OCTOBER 1973
AWARDED
THE BIENNIAL’S GRAND PRIZE IN COMMUNICATION
The
goal of this series of provocative actions undertaken under
the cover of art was to create symbolic/utopian spaces of
popular free expression in the mass media and the street in
defiance of the ruling military junta. Elements included a
nationwide call-in operation using specially installed telephone
lines, blank spaces for reader response published in several
newspapers, the use of radio and television to orchestrate
unusual experiments in public participation (e.g. a taxi rally
through the streets of the city), a videographic “mini
museum of consumerism,” and a street demonstration in
which participants carried blank signs: “The City Invaded
by Blank Space.” This last endeavor led to the artist’s
arrest by the political police.
^ |
||||||||||
|||||||||| 
