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