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An error On The Map
Marta Jarabo
, 2019
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Artistic intervention in public space for Plovdiv European Capital of Culture.
‘A park was found on the Maritsa riverbanks. If you
are interested, please visit.‘ – with this billboard
inscription in the summer of 2019 in Plovdiv begins the series of artistic interventions of the project
“An Error on the Map” for the European Capital of
Culture Plovdiv 2019.
Two weeks later, opening ceremony curtains – each
with a different word on it- appear, hanging over
the riverbed from the bridges. Together they make
up the sentence: ‘Maritsa Park already exists!‘.
Although the vast Maritsa riverbanks are full of wild flora and fauna, the riverbed has been rather neglected as a leisure destination by locals and has even acquired the status of an invisible and abandoned urban space. With the above mentioned artistic interventions, we announced the error we found in the map of Plovdiv – the missing representation of the shores of Maritsa – and prepared and distributed an updated map in which the green areas of the riverbanks are visible, and the space is marked with the name Park Maritsa.
Although the vast Maritsa riverbanks are full of wild flora and fauna, the riverbed has been rather neglected as a leisure destination by locals and has even acquired the status of an invisible and abandoned urban space. With the above mentioned artistic interventions, we announced the error we found in the map of Plovdiv – the missing representation of the shores of Maritsa – and prepared and distributed an updated map in which the green areas of the riverbanks are visible, and the space is marked with the name Park Maritsa.
Under the theoretical framework of post-nature and the anthropocene, the concept behind ‘An error on the map‘ intends to reverse the traditional opposition between nature and culture. In this way Maritsa Park, a frontier space where both ’poles“ have been mixed in varying proportions throughout history, becomes a laboratory to rethink the way in which humans relate to the environment through empathic strategies, as a gateway to the future of cities, green, natural, open and inclusive.
Collaborators on the project: Manuel González, journalist
