2009-02-23

XCO EVENTS:090217/REPORT/CONVERSATION/Peter Eversoll and Carole Baker

Visit at Golden Belt with Peter Eversoll (marcha forzada collective: 38 eyes x 57,436 steps) and Carole Baker (Mary: the paper doll project).

Some of the conversation that followed after the artists' introductions was about how these two projects intertwined and if there were any similarities.

These were some of the suggestions:

- the forbidden. How crossing Mexico city is just something that you're supposed to do or be able to do. Especially people from one part of the city should not walk around in another part where they don't belong and how it's prohibited to take pictures of certain areas in the city.
Compared to the Madonnas that are considered sacred and should not be handled in that blasphemous way and art in itself that is almost also sacred by how it's usually prohibited to touch it.

- the playfulness. Both projects have a playfulness to them. In the Madonnas it's the play with dolls and that you're supposed to move them around. In the march it's the playfulness of the photographs; the themes, the objects portrayed and the way they're displayed.

- pilgrimage/journey. Both have somewhat of a journey theme. The long walk through the city and the Madonnas who travel from different cultures and to different settings.

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