They described how there used to be someone who came and maintained the courtyard, but they stopped coming. they pointed to the very intricate graffiti on all the walls, and said they had paid graffiti artists to come and paint there. they told us that they put up the street lights in the courtyard and powered them, with their own money. Hours later, we walked by and they were still there, and we began talking some more. when we left for dinner, they locked our things away. they told us a lot about Pancevo, and they said that if we had our event on sunday, they’d open the erotic shop so we could have power.
they were friends with the woman who ran the erotic shop, so when the camera guys were away, we asked her for a little help here or there – for a place to lock our many extension cords and other things, and yes, for power.Īs we worked, the woman and her husband (Jasmin Smuda and Bojan Smuda), sat and we talked and laughed.
we talked a lot to the two guys from the camera store. – and why should they? we’ve only been here, walking these streets for a day or two!Īs we worked and struggled on this plan for inspiring sharing, we needed lots and lots of help. sometimes, when we could speak english with each other, we found a sympathetic ear – but when it came time to ask if we could “plug in,” it always seemed like we went too far, asked too much. When people asked what we were doing, we tried to explain. we taped some Power To The People posters to the pool walls. we hung some Power To The People t-shirts on the extension cords. we zip-tied one of the extension cords up in a long tangle, then we zip-tied another. We covered over 300 meters of extension cords with colorful tape, and hauled it all to the pool. there were a few stores too – an erotic shop, camera shop, shoe repair, hairdresser. it had interesting architectural elements that have been unused for many years, there were teenagers there, hanging out. When we first found the courtyard, and the empty pool. Therefore, we decided to talk more with these people and represent their efforts – they did our project better than we could ever do…. While thinking and planning we met two people who had all ready done far more work than we could manage to do to improve a public space.
#POWER TO THE PEOPLE SHIRTS WINDOWS#
we imagined lots and lots extension cords going out of windows into neighbours windows, and coming out of other windows and going into the street. We began this project as an experiment: our idea was to use extension cords as a catalyst – to ask people to improve or assert some control over public space, to share with each other an individual sharing with another individual, or as individual sharing with The People.
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