02 Motocarro
02 Motocarro
Domènec
Manresa, Espanya
2009-2010
www.domenec.net
This project is based on the construction of a three-wheeler van similar to the one that appeared in the movie Plácido, shot almost entirely on location in Manresa in 1961 and deemed to be one of Luis G. Berlanga’s best films. The department of self-propulsion at the Lacetània Secondary school in Manresa included in its pedagogical programme the recovery and restoration of an old vehicle similar to the one in the film. Once restored and modified, this vehicle becomes a “commemorative monument” in motion, an ironic device and critical memory capsule which, when travelling through the streets, evokes the social landscape of the film and places it in the social context of developing countries by showing the similitude of the mechanisms of an economy of subsistence and social exclusion. The reconstructed three-wheeler van may be used for many tasks and could be the catalyser of different events: such as a small, mobile multimedia device, as a support for an open air video projector and using its loudspeakers to communicate and diffuse the activities of different groups in Manresa.
Those participating in the project were: Jordi Aligué Pujals, Balan Mihaita Catalin, Dima Nicolae Alexandra and Joan Segarra Jordana, students from the Institut Lacetània led by teacher Pere Izquierdo Maria.
