THE RIGHT TO LAZINESS
AN EXPANDING PROJECT BY BALADA TROPICAL
The Right to Laziness is a project in expansion built on Web3.0 technologies, and was originally designed for the Museum of Fine Arts (Havana), with the idea of iteratively installing bunkers, one within another, since the museum is also understood as a space of conservation, surveillance and symbolic resistance. The virtual emplacement of these underground accesses seeks to misplace, diversify and release its control core, expand its field of action and observation, generate other access routes, other bunker-scenes, other logics of mutual construction, and other impossible points of view.
The project takes its title from the premonitory essay by the Cuban-French author Paul Lafargue, in which he proposes overcoming hegemonic management models through algorithms and technology. Thus, the project perceives virtual space as physical hollows where biological and coding evolution are equivalent processes. From that, we propose to develop a continuum of spaces of coexistence, dazzled refuges, tokenized thresholds, whose vision of what it hides evoques the imagination and structure of resistance, while provoking possible ways of inhabiting new realms of interaction.
Our main motivation arises from the recognition that contemporary societies live in a continuum of surfaces, chained to the observer position as the only possible horizon in which plenitude has lost its human sense.
Notions such as the regulation of space and time, in contrast to the composition of symbolic, critical and creative interaction scenarios are the basis of our proposal, seeking the most common and intimate experience of an "interior bond".
Finally, we continue to gather the human and cognitive capital that the development of a project like this requires. Based on the integration of new coding dynamics and disruptive tools, sentient media and tangible cybernetics, intelligent semiotics and micro-macro-transversal interaction strategies, the project serve to create ecosystems that are both within the possibilities of scientific technology and outside the possibilities of industrial interests, and where words such as "beauty", "creativity” and “community” designate significant and non-alienated objectives. We think that from the sum of such practices, human beings could generate the cities, houses, forms of knowledge, recreation and contemplation that they truly desire.
Artistic Direction: Balada Tropical / 3D Model: Gabriel Boboshko / Animation: Cristian Cuevas