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Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
Caducean City
Caducean City
On one morning of no special significance – 4 April 2006, at about 10 o’clock in the morning - an ambulance moves through the streets of the city centre and suburbs of Bologna, following a labyrinthine and apparently grotesque itinerary that becomes an endless loop within the confines of the city. The ambulance is not carrying anyone to safety. Instead it exemplifies and renders visible the implicit rules of the “social contract” whereby every individual regards themselves as the same as everyone else in relation to a public institution, and respects a tacit agreement based on fundamental norms of behaviour.
In Caducean City, Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda limit themselves to filming, in real time, the minimal possible variations with which this agreement is interpreted by the anonymous passers-by that the ambulance happens upon in the course of its journey. Reflecting the need of all contemporary institutions to conceive of themselves as flexible bodies permeated by the contradictions of contemporary society, Caducean City, produced by the MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna in conjunction with various other public bodies (Bologna City Council, the Municipal Police, the ambulance service), paradoxically transforms the entire city into the set of a collective experience in which the museum can, albeit just for a few minutes, identify with and address the entire community. Essays in the catalogue by: Jacob Fabricius, Andrea Viliani. Thanks to Duke University Press (Durham) and The Master and Fellows, Trinity College (Cambridge) for admitting the pubblication of Ludwig Wittgenstein's essay in the catalogue.
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
