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PREFACE
City is a Mix Tape album you can play
this booklet is a collection of memory recordings miscellaneous items and comments simply because the city is a never-ending symphony of voices, that define its rhythm, beat, flow its own dramaturgy a cycle of things that just happens to become the reflection on reflection - memory
Donostia / San Sebastian day 0
“Panorama” is an unbroken view of the whole region surrounding an observer. It is the story of one place that become a story of another one. It is the picture as well as the survey. The word ‘panorama’ has its origins in the Greek language and it is the same in all four languages (Bask, English, Polish and Spanish) that has been used during local people interviews in Donostia / San Sebastian. Interviews were the ways to get to know, to get closer. To establish the stranger-citizen communication as an assemblage of interacting humans occupying a given area.
day 1 what comes first? olvídate! I am looking for “memorabilia” set of memories being located in the topography or rather: geo-biography.
Hirutxulo Plaza
day 2 forgotten or confined she said: I don’t remeber the face of my father
Mandasko Dukearen Pasealekua
day 3 is it possible? una vida segura?
Mirakruz Kalea
day 4 the stories that have been believed by their tellers to be true but in fact they are usually not
Kolon Pasealekua
day 5
an autobiography has been shaped by the geographies you have lived in or visited the scraps of land are yours
Easo Kalea
Day 6 warm gardens, rooms, cinema Astoria how to translate the energy of the city into the language of sonic expression?
UNDERMOUNT, Donostia
day 7 ONE Decision Can Change Your Whole Life language has various incarnations layers the translation doesn’t really matter there’s no adequacy of linguistic structures mistificación
Mirakruz Kalea
San Juan Kalea
day 8 glimpse - snapshots series
Day 9 city - a place where everything happens simultaneously where the multiplicity resonates juxtaposition of different elements
day 10 names you might know if
Prim Kalea
day 11 we constantly dream of being lost because to be lost is a real sensual experience
Segundo Izpizua Kalea
day 12 ignites it and then disappear nunca siempre
Teresa de Calcuta Plaza
day 13 forced entertainment
day 14 dream-like journey ?
Hirutxulo Plaza
day 15 nostalgia - a self-conscious, ironic appropriation of the signs of the past Uilleam Blacker ....
Andere単o Elbira Zipitria
day 16 a hole is a crack in the foundation
day 17 the absence
Zurriola Ikastola
(to)day 18
“Marco Polo imagined answering that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there and he retraced the stages of his journeys and he came to know the port from which he had set sail, and the familiar places of his youth and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey because the traveler’s past changes according to the route he has followed not the immediate past that is to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past.
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in foreign, unpossessed places he cannot stop; he must go on to another city�
Italo Calvino