donde las calles no tienen nombre

neighborhood project

Barrio Minuto de Dios / Engativa
Bogota, 2013

a contribution for
"working voices"
curated by Harm Lux
in collaboration with
Lorena Luengas and
Ivan Cano Meija

For "working voices", a joint neighborhood project in the Bogotá barrio of Minuto de Dios, the artist created the project "Where the streets have no name". The streets in this neighborhood are, as in all of Bogotá, only numbered. Yet before the neighborhood was integrated into the city of Bogotá, some of the local streets had street names. Now the residents of the barrio can give their streets new names, and this time other names than the usual official, neutral, sober ones like "Simon Bolivar" or "Tulip Street". The residents are called upon to find free, creative, poetic, political or very performative street names.