New Ideas CityHello Museum

Maurício Ianês: Expansion

Part of the ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion program

During the performance Expansion, specially conceived for the streets of New York City, artist Maurício Ianês will invite the local public and passersby to develop a communal practice of poetic exchanges of knowledge. Through dialogues, readings of books and texts, the sharing of personal objects, stories, food, etc.—both proposed by the participants and the artist—Ianês will attempt to create a common knowledge base that is poetic, but also political, by deconstructing the hierarchies and power games at play between artist and public, as well as between local and foreign persons.