UPWARD MOBILITY | ALEX VILLAR

In contrast to the invisible horizontal line drawn by everyday movements in the city, this video shows a person in search of vertical deviations from this norm. Several situations depict attempts to move up in spaces like a bus stop, a telephone booth, a building marquee, cracks on a wall that lead to a window, among others. The character of the actions varies from that of a playful childish game to a teenage prank to a burglar break-in to a protester stunt; that is, activities that have in common the pursuit of unusual routes of action.

Upward Mobility, 8 minutes, silent, video, 2002 | 30 sec preview

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Featured
Barnett, Erin. Alex Villar interview, in Upward Mobility (New York: New Museum, 2004)
Villar, Alex, Andrea Kroksnes, Miho Shimizu and Oyvind Renberg. Dialogical Encounters #1, de-tour at uks exhibition brochure-poster (Oslo: UKS/Office for Contemporary Art, 2005)
Villar, Alex and Oyvind Renberg. A Conversation (London: Online Printhouse, 2002)
Villar, Alex and Simon Sheikh. A Conversation (New York: Danger Museum/Apexart, 2003)
Villar, Alex and Moira Roth, Minding the Gap (New York: Online Printhouse, 2003)