#OUT-OF-ORDER
#OUT-OF-SERVICE
The new project by artist Joan Juncosa makes us reflect on the use we give to public space. With “Fuera de Servicio” (Out of Service), Juncosa is installing urinals throughout the city, indicating the real use of some places in Barcelona: public toilets.
The apse of the Cathedral, the Plaza Real or the Santa Caterina market are important places for the city. For our culture. It is our heritage! But they are also urinals. Public toilets. This is the reality.
“I think we have made the problem invisible. It has become normal for the city to smell bad. And it wasn’t always like that. And this doesn’t happen everywhere. That’s why I wanted to focus my artwork on this. It’s a reminder. Why the street is there to be enjoyed. But also, and no less important, to be maintained.”
That is why Juncosa has created 100 urinals. He is dispersing them in various points of the city: “I choose some places as I go. Others are the users of public spaces who let me know and ask me to put one of my pieces there.”
“A neighbour caught me red-handed putting one up and, far from scolding me, he asked me to please put one up on the porch of his house. “It makes me sad to see my street like this.” When we were little we used to play down here, now it seems like a nauseating place to me.”
Juncosa simply puts his work on display. A urinal, tuned to his particular style. An evolution of his art, which leaves no one indifferent.
“So that Barcelona can shine again”
PARTICIPATE!!!
Do you want to be an urban artist for a day? And at the same time be part of the #FUERA_DE_SERVICIO project?
Now it's easier than ever. To participate, just download the files from the following link (totally free!)
https://we.tl/t-5HMBhBvXAM
Choose the model you like the most and print it on DIN A3 paper (so that it is the same size as a real one). Then cut along the dotted line, and you're almost done!
Choose a place that is run down, that makes you angry to see it mistreated and that you see could improve its conditions. I have left the label blank so that you can write a sentence so that people understand what you want to convey.
With double-sided tape it attaches perfectly.
So get to work and take action.
For a better place
Joan Juncosa