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How Do We Get There?
Multichannel Video Installation, Video Performance, Still Image, 3D Animation, Digital Sculpting, 13”21’, color, sound, loop.
Comissioned by the Canton Geneva Art Fund FCAC as part of the MIRE Public Art Program.


This limit is all we understand; beyond that, all we have left are the stones, the wind, and the sand. How do you live without certainties?
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They are presences that we are not aware of and that are collapsing in the storms of this weather. They are testimonies that I never had the chance to witness. 
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2024
How Do We Get There?

HOW DO WE GET THERE?
by Gabriel Massan
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Performed alongside Ariana Villegas and Bernardo Martins;
Technical Direction and Animation in collaboration with Carlos Minozzi;
Environmental Art and Unreal Development in collaboration with Mati Bratkowski;
Unreal VFX by Liam Wolfe;
Original Soundtrack and SFX by Agazero;
Studio Management by
Antoine Simeão Schalk;
Special thanks to Harriet Davey.


Gabriel Massan’s research looks here at a specific item of urban mobility, trains and their inscription in social political structures, resonating with the festival venue's former function. Researcher Paique Santarém, the co-author of the book ‘Mobilidade Antiracista’ (Antiracist Mobility), explains, based on the thinking of Frantz Fanon, that racism is a system for differentiating individuals and that it only exists when it manages, throughout society, to build hierarchies and for these hierarchies to interfere in all its institutions. It can transform, adapt to different social systems, and become a structure. Since mobility is an institution in our society, it also organizes it. Santarém believes that racism in urban mobility cuts across the organization of spaces, hierarchizing and differentiating people, and the formulation of public policies. The researcher understands that mobility is not the consequence of socio-spatial segregation but an active agent and constructor of the policy of distancing. Therefore, this population is far from the center and lacks infrastructure and public services as the city develops unevenly.

How Do We Get There?’ is an open-ended question: how do you get to a desired location, how do you organize your travel and take advantage of existing infrastructures if you don't quite have the means, be they cultural, financial or physical? This work allegorizes a social reality with which Gabriel Massan is well acquainted: depending on one's point of departure (geographical as well as physical or psychological), reaching or even just choosing a destination is not always easy. ‘How Do We Get There?’ asks the artist. 




So moving on was always what we had left.
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