100 LAR UNREAL ESTATE (Porto/PT, 2018)
Performative action presented at the former kiosk of Passeios do Piorio (The Worst Tours).
Project developed in collaboration with Inés Ballesteros and Juan Lois.
Performative action presented at the former kiosk of Passeios do Piorio (The Worst Tours).
Project developed in collaboration with Inés Ballesteros and Juan Lois.
00 LAR Unreal Estate presents itself as a real estate remediation agency that designs utopian housing on vacant lots in the city of Porto. The proposals are developed through digital collages applied to 360º panoramic photographs, which can be viewed through a Virtual Reality headset assembled from a mobile device (phone or tablet). In 2018, the agency set up and carried out performative actions at the Quiosque do Piorio, demolished in 2019, and at Associação Praça da Alegria.
The project 100 LAR – Unreal Estate seeks to problematize, through irony, the process of touristification and the resulting real estate pressure that has been affecting the city of Porto in recent years. As the tourist city expands, the availability of housing shrinks. In the face of the displacement of the original population from the city center and the fallacious discourse of the saturation of this area, 100 LAR undertakes a search for still-available vacant spaces in order to speculate on other ways of inhabiting the city. The work is based on the identification and mapping of vacant lots in the central area of Porto, followed by research into their past uses and future plans. Some of these sites are selected and photographed, and these records are formatted as panoramic images that allow a 360º view of the space. Digital collages are then made on these photographs, resulting in graphic materials that serve as the basis for participatory performances in public space.
The projections are presented through performative actions in which the two artists, acting as speculative agents of 100LAR, introduce the sites to potential associates.
The project 100 LAR – Unreal Estate seeks to problematize, through irony, the process of touristification and the resulting real estate pressure that has been affecting the city of Porto in recent years. As the tourist city expands, the availability of housing shrinks. In the face of the displacement of the original population from the city center and the fallacious discourse of the saturation of this area, 100 LAR undertakes a search for still-available vacant spaces in order to speculate on other ways of inhabiting the city. The work is based on the identification and mapping of vacant lots in the central area of Porto, followed by research into their past uses and future plans. Some of these sites are selected and photographed, and these records are formatted as panoramic images that allow a 360º view of the space. Digital collages are then made on these photographs, resulting in graphic materials that serve as the basis for participatory performances in public space.
The projections are presented through performative actions in which the two artists, acting as speculative agents of 100LAR, introduce the sites to potential associates.
