+ + + + + + + + + + + + Inferus es un proyecto independiente de resistencia cultural en el espacio público. El metro de la ciudad de México se sitúa en una primera etapa como un territorio de experimentación cognoscitiva, un ámbito en el que la reorganización perceptual de ciertas nociones espacio-temporales entre los usuarios hace posible el desarrollo de una perspectiva distinta en un esquema de intención apropiatoria. Bajo estos parámetros, queremos transfigurar ciertos recorridos en zonas de un orden autónomo –aunque sólo lo sean de forma temporal— de tal manera que se intente la inversión en términos creativos de los mecanismos en que se transita, se vigila, se desgasta o se cohabita en este lugar de confluencias citadinas. Inferus busca alentar una mayéutica sensorial que recurra a mecanismos lúdicos para tratar de revertir el proceso de utilización mínima con control extremo del hábitat común. A fin de cuentas, es en estos lugares de intercambio colectivo donde se prefiguran las posibilidades de organización de la vida en un futuro que todos construimos en conjunto.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + Inferus is an independent project of cultural resistance in the public space. The first stage of intervention takes place in the city subway, a territory of cognitive experimentation, a sphere where the perceptual reorganization of spatial and temporal notions among users makes possible the development of a distinct perspective in an appropriative-intention scheme. Under these parameters, we seek to transfigure certain paths into zones of an autonomous order –even if temporary—so that we creatively examine the mechanisms in which this place of confluences is transited, guarded, worn out, and co-inhabited. Inferus seeks to bolster a sensorial mayeutics which recurs to playful resources in order to revert the process of minimal use/maximum control which is deployed in this common sphere. In the end, it is in these places of collective interchange where the possibilities of future social organization are communally prefigured. ___________

*********************************/ Hay habitantes del sistema de transporte que se desplazan con gran habilidad entre sus fisuras. Pocas veces los encontramos de nuevo, pero siempre es ineludible toparse con alguno. Los músicos, en especial, son corresponsales insustituibles de una memoria involuntaria que trae reminiscencias de un orden arcaico. Rara vez, sin embargo, se reconocen las posibilidades renovadoras de estos herederos de juglares, trovadores, y sobre todo de los míticos vagantes, quienes durante la Edad Media europea parecían aspirar a un reordenamiento del mundo con su falta de respeto hacia todo lo que por convencionalismo merecía reverencia. En esta ocasión queremos transmutar un convoy del metro en lugar público de conciertos donde la atención se desplace por entero hacia estos actores del espacio colectivo, al menos hacia una selección del gremio. Que los usuarios fluyan entre los vagones, que inviertan en el recorrido la disposición usual y sean ellos los que se deslicen entre las hendiduras del sistema. Es posible que su acción se vuelva revolucionaria no porque logre traducir o explicar para sí mismos la vida, sino porque pueda intensificar la magnitud de su experiencia. La creación de un nuevo sentido no consiste en la reorganización novedosa de objetos ni de formas, sino en la invención de nuevas leyes capaces de reinventar la disposición usual sobre ese mismo orden.

*********************************/ There are inhabitants of the transport system which move around swiftly along its crevices. Very seldom do we encounter them again, but it is unavoidable to meet one of them at any one time. The nomad musicians are special, irreplaceable witnesses of an unwilling memory which brings reminiscences of a forgotten order. Nevertheless, the refreshening possibilities of these heirs of jugglers and trovadores –whom during the European Middle Ages aspired to transform the world with their disrespect to every conventional custom— are rarely acknowledged. This time, we seek to transform a subway train into a public concert hall where the attention is completely displaced onto these actors of the public space. Let the users interchange their roles, let them fluctuate among the wagons in order to hear the different musical offers, and maybe they will find themselves the system fissures. It is possible that their action might be revolutionary not because it explains a practice for themselves, but because it can magnify the intensity of their experience. The creation of new meanings does not only imply the innovative reorganization of objects and forms, it can best be achieved by the invention of new laws capable of displacing the usual layout of that same social order.______________

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: It is well known that one of the biggest problems of the present day is the stress that pervades in every city, worldwide. Some of its consequences are the high levels of violence, neurosis, depression… that is why this action proposed a fictitious group of escort services which tried to create a different environment for that everyday life on the city’s subway system. Bob Ross © was the name of this group, whose members traveled along different points of the system and could be identified by showing in their shirts the face of that famous artistic figure, so popular in his Tv-series for his “quick and easy painting”.
All throughout the action it was acknowledged that a moment of intimacy between strangers, even if for a brief chat, would not solve the problem of that accelerated lifestyle which is suffered in big cities (so as half an hour is not enough to learn the difficult art of painting), but to play with the irony underlined the paradoxes of reality, in an deed where imagination is provoked from the outcome of a playful incitation.