020

Arte Útil archive nr:

020

Initiator:

Adrian Melis

Location:

Cuba

Category:

urban-development, social

Users:

Watchmen

Maintained by:

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, Embassy of Spain in Cuba.

Certification:

implemented

Duration:

2005 - 2006

Adrian Melis
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Vigilia / Night Watch

Description:

Through his relationship with a watchman at a State carpentry warehouse, the artist obtained wood to build a roofed post for the watchmen who work there.

Goals:

Generate a paradoxically useful fact. The watching post was placed in a zone suitable for controlling activities of a similar nature to the one that the artist used to create it.

Beneficial Outcomes:

Watchmen have a covered shelter. The project made use of and exposed the ways in which everyday citizens in Cuba bypass the system to address their needs. The watching post is still on use.

Images:

Adrian Melis, Vigilia / Night Wacht, 2005 - 2006
Adrian Melis, Vigilia / Night Wacht, 2005 - 2006