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Overview
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Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group creates actual streets in various locations to provide a D.I.Y. public space for unspecified usage and activities. The artist collective and organizers consider streets as situations, not materials, and manage them in a (dis)orderly manner under the mantra of "nurturing streets," thus conceptualizing "public management" itself. The first street was created inside the artist collective's studio (Kitakore Building, Koenji) and connected to the public road outside through a broken gate. It is a "public space within a private space" where no rules are set and anyone can enter 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Next, the project developed inside and outside of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and inside the Mori Art Museum. While providing a site for dance, music, demonstrations, performances, political activities, and other miscellaneous activities, both formal and informal, the collective created its own set of regulations by continuously negotiating with the art institutions. In 2023, a "side trip" was added to an existing path connecting separate areas on the outskirts of Lisbon. As the path was located between two neighborhoods that had little interaction with each other, the local community was invited to organize festivals, live performances, and other events. This project led to Chim↑Pom, who had originally been individuals intervening in the public, becoming creators of the public in the process of critiquing the contemporaneity of the relationship between the public and the individual.
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Index
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”Street” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 2017

”Chim↑Pom Street” Kitakore Building 2017

”Street” Mori Art Museum 2022

”Side Trip” Lisbon, Portugal 2023