You can teach SAMBIL!

On arrival we ask whether it is ok to give a class herre. No problem. There is no objection. You cannot eat your own food but are welcome to teach!

transactions

Half of the shopping mall is closed, because of lack of tenants. Even in the part that is open a third of the shops is empty. To camouflage this there are lots of pictures and brightly painted walls.

entertainment

In the mall you can rent scootmobils to transport yourself with. There is also a little train that takes you around the mall.

relations

The seating in the mall is like at home. Just ad a tv and a bag of crisps. There are happy smiley people pictured.

transactions

Most shops sell cloths or food. The problem is that there is hardly anything bought. In all the shops people are staring at their phones.
There is also art for sale. Not the arty art but more the decorative style.

performance

And of course now and then a real one minute sculpture pops up.

5 w's

Now that every body has agreed upon working in public space we get to the next step: make it real. First is research with the 5 W's WHo what wherre when why and how of course.

What?

Nodobody knows who made it, but everybody says it has been there their whole life. So at least 25 years old. Leomar wants to go to the National Archive to find out more: is ther a maker, is there a history.
As well: who is the owner and does the maintenance. We decide to contact Danique from D.O.W, public services. WHo also was a valued member of the seminar.

in the wild

Just behind Capriles Clinic where IBB is located there are many pills in the wild. Some pristine, some tagged: HLFBLD it says. Meaning halfblood. That already ties in nicely with the subject of one of the students. We notice that the gap in the pill is often used for storage.

5 friends.

6 people standing

and it has transformed to a pedestal for perrformance.

Size, metric

The pill is carefullly measured up. It is about a 1.10 meter in size, 45 centimeter high. Has a circumverance of almost 4 meter and an estimated weight of 350 liters of concrete. It is lifted by sticking two pipes in the wholes in the side that go all the way through.

Size, social

Three strangers of the same age/class

two complete strangers.

fIeld research

Get to know the space and the object. We made a tour to Punda to have a trial run on what working iin public space is.

on topic

Earlier the students had been working on the topic they would like to adress. These varied form 'slut shaming", 'religious hypocrisy ' to 'inter-racial racism".

different roles

In turn the students took on different roles: doctor, making the pill.

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Observer, watching how the action had effect on the life in public space.

Interviewer, asking people on the street how and what they liked to cure in Curacao

They were reporter, documenting the action, while taking care not to beccome part of the action.