City on Fire, Coliseum, Rome 2010
A video installation by Thira Hilden and Pio Diaz
"City on fire - burning the roots of Western culture" is a series of site specific monumental video installations created by the artistic collaboration of Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz. The true to scale video illusions are projected on monuments and buildings, making them appear in fiery blazes.
To underscore a neglection of the transitory aspect of buildings and man-made monuments as expressions of western self-understanding and identity in a symbolic act of non-destructive cultural aggression, the artists pick sites that have become part of the canon of physical manifestations of western culture.
This weekend (Sept 17-19, 2010) it is the Coliseum in Rome, the axiomatically accepted cradle of European culture, that is scheduled to go up in flames.
Other locations have included Scandinavia´s biggest museum, the ARos Museum of Art in Århus, Denmark, the churches Vor Frue Cathedral in Copenhagen and St.Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt, Germany, the iconic Trevi fountain and a library for Classical Studies in Rome.
link to project "City on Fire"
