DATES
Workshop: January 31th to February 18th 2021
Exhibition: February 19th to March 20th (opening February 18th)
MATZA EDGELANDS, Comfama, Medellin, Colombia
Experimenting new forms of social contract in a time of technological transformation, pandemics and mass urbanization.
MATZA EDGELANDS is an artistic laboratory that focuses on the power of art as a generator of social transformations and innovation, more specifically in urban contexts. By bringing together artists, in association with experts and inhabitants, it creates the conditions for collective reflection and experimentation, seeking to outline new forms of social contract in a global context of mass urbanization, increased surveillance and pandemic insecurity.
On November 20, Edgelands Institute accompanied the organization El Derecho a No Obedecer to a recognition meeting between candidates with the CMJ. The conversation between experts, candidates and interested young people revolved around internet privacy, the usefulness of information, politics and campaigns in social networks and the role of young people in the future of these transformative forces. The ideas that came up in conversation then formed part of a mural co-created with deúniti as an exercise in dialogue and visualization of these issues and conversations. The idea, as urban art often is, is to make the artifacts tell a story, inspire dialogue and interpretation, and send a message of resistance that is also visible in urban space.