Design Art Papers 2025 | No. 13

Fig. 3 / Isabela Anghelescu Rights,demonstrationsagainst theVietnamWar,FrenchMay citizen protests against dictatorships, etc.). Secondly, because the late sixties and thebeginningof thenext decadebring the worldwide emergence of the «urban question»[…] ” [2] More recently, but also with clear political references, is the performance Who can Erase the Traces (2003), where Regina José Galindo dips her feet in a vessel filled with a liquid like human blood, then leaving footprints in front of theGuatemalancongressbuilding, inprotest of thedictator's presidential candidature José Efrain Rios. Seen (2002) is a media work by David Rokeby, which is related to Venice, specifically to San Marco Square. The work consists of images of moving creatures like pigeons and people recorded by surveillance cameras, which were separated from the unmoving elements like buildings, being a parable of how technological devices can simultaneously record and systematize information taken from the urban space. It is a current theme, associatedwithWestern culture, towhichwe can refer rhetorically, as it does this quote: „ Why is it so important to Western culture at the present time to ‘see everything’, to have nothing ‘veiled’? ” [3] Venice is also the city where Sophie Calle chose to make her conceptual performance Suite Venitienne (1983),where she tracked a man she previously met in an exhibition in Paris. She followed him and photographed the people he encountered, turning this act of tracking into an artistic work. Later on, all the image material was published in a diary book. This performance exemplifies the way in which personal space interferes with the scene of public space and the way in which this interference is then recovered in the intimate framework of the diary. Nicole Seisler and Liene Bosquê are the authors of a project where the ceramic material is used for immortalizing shapes andreliefsofdifferentplaces fromdifferent cities. Theproject took place from2009 to 2014. It is interesting to observe the way in which, through the action of those involved in the project, architectural fragments are replicated and receive a newmeaning. An ecological work entitled Melting men made by Néle Azevedo which is ongoing from 2005 in different cities, consisted in a few hundred little human figures made in ice. The work had quite an impact, being presented in various cities, the time for melting was relatively short, facing the public with global warming issues. The continuous nature of these projects makes their social dimension particularly significant. The work receives each time a new life in the newurban and human context. Maskull Lasserre realizes the Outliers-Traces (2012) 269 268 / / / / Caiete de Arte și Design / nr. 13 / 2025 / / / / Publicație a Centrului de Cercetare și Creație în Artele Decorative și Design / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /