Thompson, in which she describes the exhibition of the Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman. Photomontage on paperīecoming increasingly excited about the trickster myth, I came across the article “Architect as a Trickster”, by Courtney R. Sometimes the trickster myth draws to the trickster’s failure, other times to his personal benefit, but the key value is to indicate a process or a thought – to become a catalyst for a certain process. Seeing how straight-forward Borrego Cubero tried to be by making the movie as transparent as it turned out to be, I perceived the impression of an individual who has had a tumultuous impact on his profession. ![]() The trickster still remains a player who has a chance at losing the game. One of the characteristics of the trickster figure is to create havoc that is not singularly productive nor necessarily destructive. Borrego Cubero’s decision to direct this kind of a documentary film, and this film specifically, which sometimes becomes even comical, is reason enough for classifying him as a trickster. “The Competition” is, indeed, the first film to document the tense environment that surrounds architectural contests. It was then that I began to reflect on how these ideas can play themselves out in provocative, trickster-like ways.Īfter his success in winning a big international competition, Borrego Cubero decided to make a documentary of this supposedly well-known process of an architectural competition – one that often unfolds as if it were a thriller. The second was an anonymous quotation that he had found: “ architects are the secret agents of beauty”. That was Borrego Cubero’s first instance of citing architects as being akin to secret agents. He made a funny remark referencing the “Spiderman” comic books – after receiving his superpowers, the main character was able to get to the top of skyscraper office buildings and peer into the headquarters of important politicians. ![]() Why did these two events click together in my mind? The first thing that grasped my attention from the presentation was how silly the mentioned architect acted in talking about his profession, as if it were all a game to him. It was a coincidence that just two short weeks before going through some articles from the book called “Trickster Strategies in the Artists’ and Curatorial Practice” (edited by Polish curator Anna Markowska), I had attended a presentation by Angel Borrego Cubero (a Madrid-based architect) in which he gave an overview of his first documentary film, “The Competition” (2013). Public space is a very significant weapon of ideology
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