A proposal for a place without a door and without walls, Pull is a sculpture in two parts. Pull is a negotiation, like two bodies, pushing and pulling, forming new histories. Elemental life-support systems cycle through the spaces. Pull is a performance. In a process of compromise, balance, and care it is pulled across the city. Temporarily inhabiting spaces outside at Parque Central and inside the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, it will be dragged to its next location in a long-term procession across the city, its route growing. Made through co-learning, compromising, and materials with past lives, Pull is brought together from all over Havana and New York City. Pull understands that interdependency with each other, in urban and rural environments, is necessary now more than ever. When activated, it is a stage for storytelling about our shared future, and the ability each person has to narrate. A porous kind of island, ecosystem, and organism in formation, Pull is a poem and a tool. Request Full PDF
A project by Mary Mattingly with:
Project Manager: Ananda Morera
Architects: Yoandy Rizo and Yunior Rodriguez Castillo Rizo and Castillo
Building Team: Osmany Garcia Fuentes; David Morales Escalante; Miguel Escalante Castillo; Lasaro Alejauduo Aluaces Peralta
Electrical Engineer Advisor: Lonny Grafman
Event Curator: Giulietta Vigueras Borrego
Student Coordinator: Yamir Macías, Director of Education, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
Universidad de la Habana Design team: Julio Lamas Pinilla, Nataly Gonzalez, Carlos Carbonell Pull is part of Wild Noise, an exchange between the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.