INDIVIDUALITY GENERATES UNIQUE IDENTITY
each city generates its identity through street furniture. if you concentrate on benches, buckets, street signs or street lamps you can identify the place through its form, colour, material or specific texts and fonts.
UNIFIQUATION DESTROYES SMALL SPECIFICITIES
due to politic or/and economic reasons the specificities of each furniture are unified nowadays. this unifiquation creates a general identity but looses the individuality in the smaller scale.
INDIVIDUAL CHANGE CREATES IDENTITY IN SMALLER SCALE
the process of changing the unified specificites by each individual stresses the identity of the place in this smaller scale. the usage, the addition or the transformation create a more, "true", identity by the local citizens.
COMPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALITIES > PROCESS OF CREATING A CENTRAL EUROPEAN IDENTITY?
the way how these individual modifications are put together strengths the idea of a central european identity. this composition points out similarities or shows diffrences between the localities.
> [TAG]CATCHER TRIES TO BE THIS COMPOSITION
it is an simplified object which is created to stress this special "guerilla-urbanity" (see info for more details).
there are 7 [TAG]CATCHERS for each capital city with a specific numbering. after a month they will change their location throughout each of the capital cities of the other central european countries, until they return to their "native" city.
there are two possible ways to read the "urban information": 01. by accident on the street or 02. through this blog and its connected sites.
a metamap (see above) links this information together.
to visualize the current state or location a foto diary for each numbered object can be found in the CITIES section on the right.
YOU ARE WANTED TO POST YOUR OWN PICTURES OR MODIFICATE THE OBJECT IN YOUR HOMETOWN!
