A few years ago I made a piece called "More more more... future". The ambition was to be punk. For a while in the late 1970s England "No Future" may have been a subversive statement, I realized that in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country I call home, the only way to be subversive is to be constructive because everyone seems busy destroying something.
Creating beauty as an act of resistance, while fully facing the ugliness around and in us. I don't want to add ugliness to ugliness, thus this invitation to imagine possibilities of beauty as a way to changing the world. La révolution par la beauté. But no naive flower power here. Hippy is dead!
We'll have 30 hours to look without complacency into our world. 30 hours to stage an act of beautiful resistance. Yes, we'll DESIGN LIKE WE GIVE A DAMN, as Cameron Sinclair from Architecture for Humanity would have put it. Because I do give a damn, come to think of it: in my own subjective manner.
Faustin Linyekula Ngoy
