Red Pública
de Sevilla
Architects
Sol89. María González and Juanjo López de la Cruz and Ángel Martínez García-Posada
Collaborators in the assemblage
Rodrigo Castro, Daniel Díaz, Jorge Izquierdo, Pablo Jesús Blázquez, Jesús Medina, Victor Moita, Marta Muñoz, Andrés Pino, Ilda Rodríguez, Luis Romero and Laura Silva
Client
Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla
Photography
Jorge Yeregui

In the city, the separation between public and private space is different from the division between full and empty. Public space extends through plazas and sidewalks, while the set of voids expands in various forms within the construction of each parcel. A representation of the historic center that accounts for this diffuse situation would need to be filled with casual adherences, which would nuance the traditional parceling of streets and properties. These hybrid places are susceptible to being shared as resonance spaces, meeting places for citizens. We can trace a wide number of small-scale spaces, parcel scraps that can be incorporated into the city through a “soft” inhabitation that redefines the artificial division between private and participatory spaces in these times of privatization of the public realm. The intervention aims to highlight the strategic character of the courtyard of the Architects’ College as a place that can be integrated into the city. To do this, a simple, easily installable red scenic room is modeled, which can be used as an occasional forum for citizen activities. Through a website, any individual or group can request a day and time to hold an event in a normally closed space outside of institutional hours; the space’s red dress transforms it into a scenic space during the period of its appropriation. There were fifteen citizen interventions within Red Pública during the two months it was installed.
In our work, we often use a red carpet as a rehearsal zone with a very clear purpose; outside the carpet, the actor is in daily life, free to do whatever they want: expend energy, perform movements that express nothing in particular, scratch their head, fall asleep; but as soon as they are on the carpet, they are obliged to have a defined intention, to be intensely alive, simply because an audience is watching.
Brook, Peter
The Open Door. Thoughts on Acting and Theatre.