RIANXO
CHANGING THE VILLAGE THROUGH PROTAGONIST PARTICIPATION
Protagonist participation with the work of Manuel Antonio
The figures of children and teenagers themselves (their silhouettes, bodies, and gestures) become the visual protagonists of the urban space. The aim is not to represent them, but to allow them to inscribe themselves into the landscape with their scale, their language, and their living presence. Their image occupies façades, walls, and partitions, intervening in the urban environment with their collective identity and symbolic power
Navy Bar
Este bar ten balances
E tamén está listo
pra se facer á vela
Encheron-noS O vaso
con toda a auga d’o Mar
pra compor un cocktail de horizontes
Pendurados d’as horas
atlas xeográficos d’esperantos
están sin tradución
E tatexan as pipas
c’o ademán políglota d’as bandeiras
Es cantar improvisado
é o mesmo
que xa se improvisou n-algures
Quen chegou avisándo-nos
d’esa cita noiturna que temos
c’o vento ao NE
n-a encrucillada d’as estrelas apagadas?
Eiquí bebe de incónito
o Mariñeiro Desconecido
—sin xeografía in literatura—
A noite d’os nautraxos
c’o seu brazo salvavidas
aferrará con nosco unha vela de chubascos
O vaso derradeiro
estaba cheo de despedidas
Pol-as ruas dispersas
ibamo-nos fechando
cada un dentro d’a sua alta-mar
N-o repouso d’algún vaso
todal-as noites naufraga o Bar.
Manuel Antonio
COLOUR YOUR VILLAGE
The village or city in which we are working, transformed into a game board, a laboratory of experimentation where children and teenagers can act from a new point of view.