Favela Café, at Art Basel, created by japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata and swiss architect Christophe Sheidegeer as a part of a commissioned installation for Messeplatz. "Kawamata’s
aim is to turn these environments inside out, and present the viewers
with a completely fresh view of their surroundings."
A way to confront people with other reality... on danger of be turned into a fashionable art/architectonic design rather than into a kind of re-freshing (view) social art(?).
While the installation remains under institutional control, everything (everyone) is cool, but at the moment its ocupation escapes and turns into a collective and freely use of the public space, for some the 'social' art becomes to much unsocial... and the confrontation is not as 'refreshing' as desired (for those 'some')... so it's necessary to re-control it with... tear gas (another refreshing-repressing system for reality).
And finally reality comes... again... when citizens made use of that commissioned created space as the intentioned real 're-freshing' place. What a paradox!
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