The street market forces its presence upon territory, altering the city network and giving character to certain places.
It is the color floating along the streets.
It is nature rushing down the pavements. She claims part of the city for herself.
It is the company performing daily all around the city. It agitates people into this performance, thus altering their everyday lives.
It gave people the mask and now asks of them to expose themselves.
It is taste, smell, touch, hearing and sight.
It is therapy.
It is communicating and coming together.
It is a part of the city which contains all of the city.
The street market is a colorful and diverse space that can be seen from many different aspects.
The subjects that interested us are many, ephemeral and diachronic. They overlap and can been seen in a unique way from every viewer, like the unique experience of walking through the street market.
Stage, performance, figures, play set, communion, mimicry, identification, catharsis. They are elements that we borrowed to discover the parallelisms between street market and theater. We studied the structure and the relationship between those two performances. We searched for the role of market in the city, the sociology, the architecture and the philosophy.
The market and the city were born together out of the need of the people for exchange and communication. Street market lies within the city and it is the city.
