Park
life #001 Domesticator Props
Park life #002 Public Fireplace
Park life #003 Burn-Me pieces
Park Life
Park Life seeks to reconsider everyday life as a luxury leisure sport.
In Catalonia, midsummer night is traditionally celebrated by lighting
big fires. For a few hours Barcelona is turned into a theme park playing
with fire.
Open-End exhibits several Park Life elements related to fire: Domesticator
Props: fire as the central axis of the house; home and fire as elements
of appropriation, occupation and ‘domestication’ of non-urbanized contexts.
Public Fireplace: a playground, a stadium in a public space where you
can play with fire. Burn-Me Pieces: woodpile which functions as a technical
kit and a product originating from the isolation of the fire for security
reasons, from its persecution by environmental themes and from the transformation
of fire from a basic need into a sport, from an instrument into a lifestyle
product.