New artist book on use of giant inflatable hammers in protest… including
guide to making yr own…. Cheers, stevphen
The El Martillo Project
Eclectic Electric Collective
In 2010 an inconspicuous looking suitcase was sent from Berlin to Mexico
City containing a 39-foot tall inflatable silver hammer. Thus began El
Martillo’s odyssey to protest the United Nations Climate Conference in
Cancún. El Martillo’s short, but glorious life, climaxed when protesters
from Marea Creciente (Rising Tide) stormed the conference complex
fences, gigantic hammer above their heads. In full view of the press
Mexican police tore the inflatable to pieces. Within an hour global the
media corporations declared El Martillo a symbol of the climate changes
protests as it’s image traveled across the world.
The El Martillo Project documents the whole process from its conception
and construction to the media flurry it sparked off. Included are
numerous full color images and documentation of the project; texts and
analysis by David Graeber, Alex Dunst, and Cristian Guerrero; an
interview with John Jordan from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary
Imagination; and a fold out technical manual and plan for creating giant
inflatable hammers.
Initially inspired by the quote “Art is not a mirror held up to reality,
but a hammer with which to shape it,” The El Martillo Project aims to
inspire creative action and joyful disobedience.
Bio: Eclectic Electric is a German art collective operating at the
borders of art and activism.
Eclectic Electric Collective:
http://www.eclectic-electric-collective.blogspot.com
Video Trailer for the El Martillo action: http://vimeo.com/32073199
PDF available freely online (http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=357).
Released by Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life.
Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
www.minorcompositions.info [log in to unmask]
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