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Active drifts, 2002

Walking down the street looking for little unused spaces.
They don't seem to be useful, are just standing, disappearing of our everyday life. I chose to show them as a liberty space that makes for the diversity of the public space arrangement.
I made those places exist by appropriating them regularly.

First I observed them, drew, took photos, measured and localized them on a map. Then I acted directly there by choosing a specific action: cleaning, painting, planting...

Because acting, I created a kind of private place. So, for the people, I was a citizen who took care of "their" public space. I was also asking my colleagues: are artists more useful for society when they are cleaning the street than when they are painting closed in their workshop?

To discover this work today, there are videos, maps and pictures that can be
exhibited and also a publication.

tiling, Ungarn street

cleaning a 'terasz' of the castle

cleaning, Béthlen Gabor square

to fix the old bus stop up, Pusztazeri street