CARAVANA DEL AMOR

2025 San­ti­a­go, Chile
Museo de la Sol­i­dari­dad Sal­vador Allende
17 Bien­al de Artes Medi­ales de San­ti­a­go: Hiper­re­al­i­dades

A live work exe­cut­ed by 8 vol­un­teer par­tic­i­pants, each maneu­ver­ing 2 inter­lock­ing pieces of mov­ing fur­ni­ture.
Approx­i­mate dura­tion: 30 minutes. 

Car­a­vana del Amor pro­pos­es an exper­i­ment in con­struct­ing a shared domain through a cre­ative exer­cise in com­pos­ite spa­tial con­fig­u­ra­tions, pro­duced by 8 peo­ple oper­at­ing indi­vid­u­al­ly con­trolled mov­ing parts. The unwieldy cir­cu­la­tion con­sol­i­dates into a com­mon fur­ni­ture bloc com­posed of con­tigu­ous mobile units, arranged in con­fig­u­ra­tions spon­ta­neous­ly cre­at­ed by the par­tic­i­pants, with the ulti­mate inten­tion of col­lec­tive­ly shield­ing indi­vid­ual bod­ies in pro­tect­ed inte­ri­or nooks while main­tain­ing over­all spa­tial har­mo­ny. Par­tic­i­pants must bal­ance intu­ition and strat­e­gy as they seek to posi­tion their mobile units in imme­di­ate rela­tion to oth­ers, and always, in con­sid­er­a­tion of the whole. The col­lec­tive for­ma­tions that emerge in repeat­ed move­ments offer impro­vi­sa­tion­al designs for a strong­hold of human solidarity. 

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MOVING DIAGRAM

FLOW 1

FLOW 2

FLOW 3