bricks

The project involves the local community in collecting visual materials from the area to create audiovisual performances that use urban space as a narrative medium.

Equipped with smartphones, participants explore an urban area looking for two kinds of content: graphic patterns and textures rooted in the historical tradition of the place or characteristic of that specific environment — textiles, ceramics, engravings on manhole covers and other street furniture — which are photographed; and places of particular interest, monuments and characteristic buildings, which are 3D-scanned with free smartphone apps.

The collected material is then used for a performative restitution, as an installation or a vj set made of superimposed visual layers, which can include the real urban space as a further layer: a site-specific experience in which the physical environment becomes part of the performance.

Bricks has been tested in three locations so far, both as a vj set and as a collective exploration of the territory:

Bricks SMA — MADE Creatives in residence, San Miguel de Allende, MX, November 2024
Bricks RAK — Zarga Lab workshop, Marrakech, MA, December 2024
Bricks PAD — PADA Studios research residency, Barreiro / Lisbon, PT, June 2025