This Is My City (TIMC) is an event/essay in resistance and counter-culture set in Macau. In a first moment, the event may find justification in the artistic territories of video and design organized in a temporal and spatial itinerary somewhere in a shadowy geography of the city. In a second moment, Cultural Association +853 substantiate the proposal for a dialogue on the issues of contemporaneity, on memory, on difference, on the precarious nature and public and egalitarian character of shared urban space.
It is an event/essay in resistance to the multinational imposition of a dream-city simulacrum, and stands against the tendentiously hegemonic culture of global aseptization and indifference.
In the wake of the North-American architect Michael Sorkin, this event can be said to attempt the re-appropriation of the progressive Utopian speech by operating a re-conversion of the concept: the utopia, the invention of a better place and an inventory of images and local cultures of resistanc
