XXIst CENTURY MESSENGER: Â The artist-thinker as a letter carrier
This project aims to connect people symbolically through the territories of my Sound Development City Expedition 2015 (Belgrade, Thessaloniki and Athens) by rendering a net of correspondence about urban life, its landscape and infrastructure.Â
The “messages“ consist of old-fashioned letters elaborated with the contents of the interviews I made during my trajectory. I played the role of a chasqui* – an ancient Inca messenger – to deliver the mail to the diverse interviewees I met in the aforementioned cities.Â
In order to create the textual, visual and sonic materials of the letters I used different thinking methods: ethnographic for the texts, cognitive-scientific for the images and Dadaist for the sounds. This way, the artist (me) becomes a medium, converting artistic thinking into a form of making art. By placing myself in between people and their urban life, I became a medium, consequently rendering a collective and applied thought compilation about contemporary urban life.
Every letter has two digital copies to provide a tangible record of the experience.
*Chasquis were agile trained runners that delivered messages and royal delicacies throughout the Inca Empire, using a relay system to convey news over thousands of kilometers within a short period of time.Â



















