Cosmogonia de l'home urbà

I considered presenting existence as a criminal matter. I chose about forty objects (table lamp, TV, typewriter, key ring, CD, calculator, ashtray, cigarette packet, lighter, family portrait, oil cans, toothbrush, electric shaver, bar of soap, nail clippers, sunglasses, fountain pen, diary, shoe mould, card, gymnastic bicycle, scale, flower vase with rose, hat, tie, telephone, world ball, passport, whisky glass, car license plate, novel, fork and knife, mail box) out of the hundred and fifty objects, scales, vase with rose, hat, tie, telephone, world ball, passport, whisky glass, car license plate, novel, fork and knife, mail box) of the one hundred and fifty objects of the performance URBAN MAN, I already placed them fenced on the floor, in the Metrònom hall of Barcelona, while I streched myself in the middle of them.

I called this action ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE URBAN MAN. All this created some evidence for some people, they even insulted me and threw oil and vinegar at me.

Another motivation that led me to do this action was of a museum nature, I wanted to show our society as an object to look at: where I played the role of an urban man as an Egyptian mummy. This has a special sense, because this society believes itself to be the end of civilization and only understands that it is possible to look back (Egyptians, Iberians, Romans, Greeks, etc …) as a way to understand this end.

What would happen if all the objects that accompany our daily life – table lamp, TV, typewriter, key ring, cd, calculator, ashtray, cigarette packet, lighter, family portrait, cruets etc. … For example – what will we be exposed to in 2000 years? Or our manner of dress, or the apparent mummified presence of an urban man?

hat distanced look would we project on these objects? Perhaps we would pass by the display cases with the same detached attitude with which we look at objects recovered from some archaeological dig.

In this work there was no action. Both the objects and the character lay on the floor, surrounded by a circle, made with chalk where the name of each thing was written. The public was separated at a prudent distance by a steel cable that surrounded the entire exhibition.

Can you live without the anecdote of your existence?

Animals know this very well. The cat that Socrates passed in the street is the same today, because they are not subject to the concept of time or history. In any case, perhaps lacking your anecdote, you must not be any different from another human being who lived 2000 years ago. You can both be sitting on the same rock watching the water of the river go by.