Direct Action / Direct Action
Title: Direct Action / Direct Action
Year: 2023
Measures: Variables
Technique: HD Video (color, sound, subtitled in Spanish). Record of the performances of opening and closing with Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Duration: 4’49”
Edition: 1/5
Direct action, the title, refers to both the act of producing a print on paper, on a scale of 1:1, a fragment of the floor of the city through the rubbed, as the direct action in the political sense, organize collectively and build the world they want to live.
Benítez invited members of several of the groups of which it is a party to use and activate the exhibition as a site of meeting, practice, and the scenario during the 3 months that it was open. The performances of the opening and closing ceremonies were with Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, a choir of gospel anti-capitalist which Benitez is part from 2017.
Second card
We put our bodies on the streets
our bodies in the trees
our bodies against the bars of a chemical plant
our bodies within banks
our bodies in the forest
our bodies on the pavement
we harmonize
disonamos
we become one body sound
we extend
phase out
reaparecemos
in crescendo,
through tunnels
caves, theatres, cells,
we become all
and one with the buzzing of the bees
Francisca Benítez







