Use the broken glass from windows of crashed cars, setting them like diamonds into the map of Africa. Organise a match with American and Mexican teams in the border village of Tijuana, basketball versus football, each following their own rules, with the Wall as scenery…

Visual artist Gustavo Artigas was born in Mexico City in 1970. He is called a ‘situation-events artist’ for his works, often ‘happenings’, are constructed (randomly) at the heart of conflicting human, social, political and economic realities, following the familiar rules of sporting duels or games in our society which he has modified quite bizarrely.

Off to Kanal 20, a documentary space (photos and video) to immerse yourself in his existing work, and then into the city which serves as a public arena where interventions take place that have nothing funny about them except how they appear…

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