Video: Implanted Nature. Art project to protect green spaces on the streets of Madrid
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
About unusual art projects of the Spanish studio Luzinterruptus visitors Culturology more than once could read on the pages of our site. Basically, the guys from Madrid "hit" the light installations on the streets of their hometown: a glowing shadow cemetery, glowing poetry, a picnic for aliens … This time, the guys took to the streets of Madrid with glowing umbrellas and plant seedlings to bring the art project to life Implanted Nature … Concerned and outraged by the fact that there are practically no "useful" green spaces left in the center of Madrid, which made the city no longer fresh, green and shady, the initiative group Luzinterruptus on the night of May 4-5 presented the grayest and gloomiest districts of the city with fifty "tiny ecosystems" covered with umbrellas from external danger. “Let's protect the remnants of greenery and plant new ones,” this installation probably silently shouts.
So, in the cracks of the asphalt, near the sewer manholes and drains, in the gaps between the bricks on the walls of houses, in general, wherever possible, the guys from Luzinterruptus planted seedlings of herbs and flowers, and also "settled" representatives of the plastic fauna in this impromptu "forest" … We covered the "ecosystem" with a lace umbrella, which, as usual, was illuminated with a flashlight, and in the morning the inhabitants of Madrid here and there, in the most unexpected places, met amazing objects of street decor.
It would be great, Luzinterruptus says, if at least some of the plants we have planted take root in cracks in the asphalt and in the cracks between slabs and bricks. Then the city would be at least a little covered with greenery, and there, you see, new parks with squares are just a stone's throw away. In the meantime, in the evenings, the townspeople and guests of the Spanish capital can watch with surprise how artificial ecosystems from the Implanted Nature art project grow and get stronger under the umbrella-"cap".
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