Michelle Teran / Ubermatic / Project for a City. Girona

urban projection

I imagine a Parisian apartment building whose faÃ§ade has been removed — a sort of equivalent to the roof that is lifted off in ‘Le Diable boiteux”, or to the scene with the game of go in “The Tale of Genji” — so that all the rooms in the front, from the ground floor up to the attics, are instantly and simultaneously visible.

… The mere inventoryÂ â€“ and it could never be exhaustive of the items of furniture and the actions represented has something truly vertiginous about it.Â

Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

During a two hour intervention, several building faÃ§ades along the River Onyar in Girona, Spain provided the surface for an open air cinema. A selection of videos depicting different interior spaces, drawn from a video archive generated by artists and residents of the city, were projected onto the walls of houses. A dialogue between the interior and the exterior was created through this spatial penetration.Â

After an hour, the projection shifted to a live image from the interior of a restaurant kitchen. The superimposition of the interior space of the kitchen on the outer surface of the building set up a new way of looking at the city, where the live projection became integrated with the architectural exterior in a way that bordered on the imaginary and poetic. Â

Video generated for the open-air cinema was published on a YouTube Channel and reinserted back into the city via Google Earth, creating a link between private, online and public (urban) space.Â

Project for a City. GironaÂ was commissioned by BÃ²lit Contemporary Art Centre for In Construction. Recipes from Scarcity, Ubiquity and Excess. Curator Rosa Pera.Â

Participants and contributors:Â Quico Estivill, Hanafi El-Kadaoui, Thais Roig, Shelley Hill, Carlus Camps, Ana Lacaze and Boira Restaurant.Â

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