{"id":5652,"date":"2018-08-24T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2023-05-15T19:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:55:20","slug":"para-la-seguridad-de-la-mujer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=5652","title":{"rendered":"For Women\u2019s Safety (A humorous bloody intervention) \/ Para la seguridad de la mujer (Intervenci\u00f3n humor\u00edstico-sangrienta)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last July, we roamed the streets of Madrid with our lights searching for the right location to carry out our new piece, \u201cFor Women\u2019s Safety (A humorous bloody intervention)\u201d,<\/strong> with which we wanted to improve dangerous public places.<\/p>\n

We keep hearing that Madrid is a friendly, welcoming city. However, it has much to improve as far as the use women can make of its places, especially in areas that are far from its downtown area as well as inside many public buildings.<\/p>\n

Any woman who transits back streets alone in the middle of the night, will probably do so in alert and distrustfully. This is not due to deficient lighting as much has been done in the last years to illuminate every corner of Madrid. However, your heart inevitably rushes, you pick up your pace and sharpen your senses, avoiding hidden alleys and looking for broad and open streets.<\/p>\n

We spent several days looking for these unsafe places. We surveyed women and considered their suggestions. We also visited websites where these sorts of areas are identified and entered them with much precaution. They were really spooky though we could not work in them as they were overly lighted.<\/p>\n

We finally stayed in the\u00a0AZCA<\/strong><\/a> area, Madrid\u2019s financial district, which hosts the corporate headquarters of many large companies which have their own private security for their buildings.<\/p>\n

During the daytime, it bustles with activity as there are many establishments servicing a host of office workers and top-level executives. However, it completely changes during the night as other sorts of establishments emerge such as dance clubs and bordellos which mingle with settlements of homeless people who sleep in the open hidden in dark corners. This is the worst setting for any woman to feel comfortable.<\/p>\n

We went there to place our maxi pads. They were chosen as symbols of many important demands, and also because they draw the line between the civilized world, which considers them essential, and the third world which cannot afford them and considers them a taboo as well.<\/p>\n

Their use also implied a humorous hint against publicity (we are passionate about this issue) which preposterously shows them as\u00a0objects with magical properties<\/strong><\/a> associated with safety, comfort, happiness,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0a good<\/strong><\/a> smell<\/strong>, lightness, clouds, or the color blue or pink, but almost never the color\u00a0red<\/strong><\/a>. According to this association of marketing ideas which have always been bombarding our brains, we can create a highly safe place for women by using them in large quantities.<\/p>\n

We placed around 1,000 units with blinking red lights inside, intervening two places in AZCA with them.<\/p>\n

The first one looked rather unkempt and abandoned, and it was full of stairs and dark tunnels out of which an occasional passerby would come furtively.<\/p>\n

We covered it with maxi pads which were meticulously arranged lending it a peculiar look which could almost be defined as comfortable, fluffy and intimate, and not as menacing as it looked before we arrived.<\/p>\n

The second intervention took place at a closer, more open and transited place where we improvised rails drawn with lighted maxi pads which could be used to guide female passersby at that hour \u2013 there were not many, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n

We actually made male passersby look away and pick up their pace feeling somehow awkward and annoyed by this situation as it is well known that maxi pads and the color red produce in men the same effect as garlic in vampires.<\/p>\n

After a few hours, we collected everything and left the place in the same condition as we found it. We stored the material for future use or in case someone asks us for it.<\/p>\n

We want to thank our friend Monta\u00f1a who helped us throughout the entire process, as well as Nicol\u00e1s and\u00a0Melisa Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0who created a great photographic report despite the difficulties.<\/p>\n

Time of installation: 2days.
\nDamages: none.
\nExhibition time: 5 hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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El pasado mes de julio salimos por Madrid con nuestras luces, buscando una localizaci\u00f3n apropiada en la que llevar a cabo una nueva pieza\u00a0\u00abPara la seguridad de la mujer (Intervenci\u00f3n humor\u00edstico-sangrienta)\u00bb<\/strong>\u00a0con la que quer\u00edamos mejorar espacios p\u00fablicos peligrosos.<\/p>\n

No paramos de escuchar que Madrid es una ciudad amigable y acogedora, pero en realidad tiene mucho que solucionar en cuanto al uso que las mujer pueden hacer de sus espacios, sobre todo en zonas alejadas del peque\u00f1o n\u00facleo central, as\u00ed como en el interior de muchos edificios p\u00fablicos.<\/p>\n

Cualquier mujer que transite sola por calles secundarias de noche, seguramente lo har\u00e1 desconfiada y alerta, y no porque Madrid tenga una deficiente iluminaci\u00f3n, que en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os se ha puesto mucho inter\u00e9s en sobreiluminar hasta el mas rec\u00f3ndito rinc\u00f3n. A\u00fan as\u00ed, resulta inevitable que el coraz\u00f3n se acelere, el paso se haga mas r\u00e1pido, el o\u00eddo y la vista se agudicen, y se prefiera andar por medio de la calle evitando los recovecos sin visibilidad.<\/p>\n

Durante varios d\u00edas buscamos estos espacios poco seguros, preguntamos a mujeres y revisamos sus sugerencias, tambi\u00e9n visitamos p\u00e1ginas en las que se identifican este tipo de zonas y nos internamos con mucha precauci\u00f3n en ellas. Verdaderamente daban miedo aunque no pod\u00edamos trabajar en ellas por estar muy iluminadas.<\/p>\n

Finalmente nos quedamos en la zona de AZCA<\/a>, el distrito financiero\u00a0de la ciudad, donde se alojan las sedes de grandes empresas que cuenta con seguridad privada en sus edificios.<\/p>\n

Durante el d\u00eda hay en ella una bulliciosa vida, con muchos locales que dan servicio a una poblada de oficinistas y ejecutivos de alto nivel, pero durante la noche el uso cambia radicalmente, saliendo a la luz locales de ocio nocturno, salas de fiesta y prost\u00edbulos que conviven con asentamientos de sin techo que duermen a la intemperie, aprovechando tantos rincones oscuros. El peor escenario para que una mujer se sienta c\u00f3moda.<\/p>\n

All\u00ed \u00edbamos a colocar nuestras compresas, elegidas por su simbolismo y por haberse convertido en centro de grandes reivindicaciones, tambi\u00e9n porque marcan la diferencia entre un mundo civilizado, que las considera de primera necesidad y un tercer mundo que no puede costearlas y adem\u00e1s considera un objeto tab\u00fa.<\/p>\n

Por otro lado, su uso nos daban pie a hacer un gui\u00f1o humor\u00edstico, contra la publicidad, (nos apasiona el tema), que absurdamente las muestra como objetos con propiedades m\u00e1gicas\u00a0<\/a>asociadas a la seguridad, el confort, la felicidad,<\/a> el buen olor<\/a>, la ligereza, las nubes o el color azul o rosa, pero casi nunca el\u00a0rojo<\/a>. Seg\u00fan esta asociaci\u00f3n de ideas marketinianas, que lleva toda la vida martilleando nuestras cabezas, si las us\u00e1bamos en grandes cantidades, podr\u00edamos conseguir un espacios altamente seguro para la mujer.<\/p>\n

Colocamos unas 1.000 unidades, que llevaban luces rojas intermitentes en su interior, e intervenimos\u00a0con ellas 2 espacios de AZCA.<\/p>\n

El primero m\u00e1s residual y con aspecto de abandono, lleno de escaleras y t\u00faneles oscuros por los que de vez cuando sal\u00eda alguna persona de manera furtiva.<\/p>\n

Lo cubrimos \u00edntegramente de compresas, meticulosamente ordenadas, que le daban un curioso aspecto, casi podr\u00eda decirse que confortable, mullido, e \u00edntimo, y alejado de la sensaci\u00f3n de peligro que ten\u00eda previamente a nuestra llegada.<\/p>\n

La segunda intervenci\u00f3n fue en un espacio cercano, mas abierto y transitado. All\u00ed inventamos carriles dibujados con compresas iluminadas, y que pod\u00edan servir para guiar por ello a las mujeres que a esas horas transitaban, no eran muchas, por razones obvias .<\/p>\n

Lo que si logramos, fue que los hombres que pasaban a esas horas, miraran para otro lado y aceleraran el paso, algo inseguros y molestos con la situaci\u00f3n ya que por todos es sabido que compresas y rojo produce en el hombre el mismo efecto que el ajo en los vampiros.<\/p>\n

Al cabo de unas horas, recogimos todo y dejamos el espacio en las mismas condiciones en que nos lo hab\u00edamos encontrado, guardando el material por si en el futuro queremos volver a dale uso o por si alguien nos lo pide.<\/p>\n

Damos las gracias a nuestra amiga Monta\u00f1a que ayud\u00f3 en todo el proceso tambi\u00e9n a Nicol\u00e1s y a\u00a0Melisa Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> que hizo un estupendo reportaje fotogr\u00e1fico, a pesar de la dificultad.<\/p>\n

Tiempo de montaje e instalaci\u00f3n: 2 d\u00edas
\nDa\u00f1os ocasionados: 0.
\nPermanencia de la intervenci\u00f3n: 5 horas.<\/em><\/p>\n