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born in the city in a town in
Spain or even outside of Spain
we all have a photo very similar to
this one in which our parents then we
dress with the regional suit logo that the
traditional element of the area and this
photo is repeated be our family
very followers of tradition or not
in my case they were not, they were not for nothing
but good as they say that curiosity
he killed the cat
I decided to introduce myself to the wonderful
world of faults and as you can see
I did it to the bottom that I found
there belt part of a lot of people and
many friends with whom you passed
moments I met metaphorically
with a manual a manual that explained to me
how was it to be Valencian which
it was our origin and what were
our traditions and little by little I went
Believing me the story they told me
eventually one begins to doubt the
things that tell you and I came across
two phrases that repeated a lot had
some doubt this has been done well
life and then repeatedly failures
They are the best party in the world
phrases as it has been done all the life
Well, when you start having a
critical spirit because there are certain
traditions because maybe they are not
so easy to explain and it did not work
simply that explanation and phrases
how is this the best party in the world
if you go to rio de janeiro think what
same if you go to Pamplona they think the same
with which, like many
religions that talk about their god being
the only true many many faults
pardon parties also say that it is the
best party in the world
at the end by simple statistics, because
they may be right , which I stopped
believe me that manual that I had
counted and had two options or follow
a little the current or leave the faults
because he really had a spirit
critical to them and there were many
things that he did not believe in
but life is a boomerang then
the moment came when I saw myself
doing the same thing they had done
with me
dressing my children with the suit
regional and answering your questions
and in some moments I felt like
answer is that all the
life like this
but of course I did not want to fall into that
then at that time I took the
decision to return to failures and
I came back and I started making mistakes
He came back again to put me
background
the faults but I wanted to come back from another
way I wanted to tell my children
another story a story in which
there were other values that I think that
that this party could be incorporated
values like that you can retrieve the
urban space that can be improved on
urban space with the t that we incorporate
on the street that art can be a lot
more interactive that we do not need
fill all our public space
of advertising posters to take out the
maximum economic performance but that
we can recover our space
public to get the most out of
so that people live in it
values such as community work
always tried my projects that
the largest number of people participate
and other values may also
have lost as the use of materials
so that the creams the additional day of
March are different and all these
values also wanted to share with
my children
after a failure I made with them when
they had 47 years collecting wood that
There was a lot of
carpentry and building this great
city that was a year that we were
working with children and the truth
that was an exciting experience
all this way took us to no
accompany the year 2015 the opportunity
to make these
values
relying on something so media
human or a failure of the section
special and recover as I said
these values of recovering space
Urban particularly well that was
a collaborative failure here you see all the
floor of that failure was
formed by 95 thousand pieces of mosaic that
we did with children from juvenile centers
at risk of social exclusion
the idea was a bit that everyone was
could be to feel part of a
party that actually a party of
all and for all
but good as you know how to fight against
those traditions because it’s not easy anymore
the intellectual struggle
in this case the physical struggle met
and nothing announced storms and great
winds for the week the week of
failures and finally finally not
what you have seen happened great
I had never seen so big there
always seen the mobile screen
good well some news
I believe that I also believe that
also appeared but good of all
fall you can learn something
and actually like many repercussion and
above all very many people who
glad that he fell and cried and rejoiced
really because all these people who in
its beginnings in its origin they believed the
phrase of this has been done all life
A) Yes
and we are the best party in the world there is a
moment they associate tradition with their
own person
they are the tradition
become the guardians of the
tradition and how the
things with which any
modification that then make it take
as a personal attack and obviously
the visceral reactions but why
that fear of change
actually we have the tradition with
greater capacity for evolution that exists
in the world
we try and if it does not work we burn it and
the next year we start again and
despite having this great capacity of
evolution
we are still determined that things
always remain the same
after this little incident
I was lucky to receive a call from
of the batman or if you know him is a
festival that takes place in the middle of
Nevada desert to which some
80,000 people is an aerial image
where the 80 90 thousand people gather
for a week and that has many
similarities with failures meet
around art to share art and
to finish burning it the last day
it’s an ephemeral city that appears
for a week in the middle of the desert
and that for a week is the third
Largest city in the state of Nevada
after las vegas and reindeer
a city with conditions
climatic extremes 40 degrees by the
day windstorms 0 degrees by the
Even though you can see that the night is not
it seems nothing cold and where there are certain
values and principles that govern this this
event values as the value of the
community
obviously build a city of the
nothing takes the work of many
volunteers and many people
the value of radical inclusion all
the world is welcome wherever and
the value above all of participation
nobody is going that event is a
viewer all are participants
if there is a parade and a dance you do not go
to look at you you dance you join and
is part of what happens and in valencia
many traditions we have incorporated
a lot of rites screaming that what
they do is clearly classify who
organize who the viewer there is
space for surprise
everything becomes conventional
social and all the conventions
are the ones that cause us to lose
ability to surprise and the ability to
party an event that when the
event of that city of 80,000 people
you will not find a single bin but
neither does it contradict a single paper in
the ground absolutely everyone
responsible for what it takes and cleans it
then to ebay as it even happened in the
sieve to sift the desert sand
after burning one of the pieces of
art that happens in our society
many times then we go to the events
let’s go to the party before he threw a
glass or yes to those in front of us
also and we hope that they are the
municipal services that pick up
dirtied everything we end up not
we are aware of the lack of values
many times that we incorporate our
hundred of our traditions an event
where money is forbidden and
It is also forbidden to barter
everything works based on the economy of
present
there in the image you can see while
We were riding the fault
volunteers whose only mission during
the event is to go with a van with a
microwave and food prepared to give
to eat at the views we are in
half the desert riding riding the
it fails and just like it is not small
Money is also forbidden
sponsors and
trademarks
we here are very used
to sell our public space the
trademarks to be the
breweries that dictate our
cultural programming and it is clear that
there are certain values and certain things that
I think they have been lost in the
last years
I think the potential is there we are
able to recover the art in the
desert as you see is an art
interactive people can play it without
the viewer does not make sense and the
fire fire that in the end is what we
unites the two festivals respect for
what fire and burns with
images
as you see incredible in the end I
I had to go to the desert to find
those values that I like I would like
gone tried to introduce in our
traditions here and I found them in the
another part of the world in the middle of
desert in a festival that had so
only 30 years but I do not want to give
impression on plan welcome mister
marshall of how well do the
Americans who do most of all
here because basically it’s not like that and
after our visit they
they came to Valencia and through their
eyes we were also able to see
many of the principles that we have in
this holiday as the story we have a
Long story our party
survived wars dictatorships to
survive in the middle of the city of
Reynosa half where true riding
although some would want us
we were and it ‘s a party that vertebra
the whole society the whole community already
people of all ideologies and all
ages and above all we have the greatest
artistic crowdfunding that exists in
the world we want are worth more than 1,000
artistic budget to generate in
the street and the amount of creatives that
we have per square meter the
people who come from outside you think
amazing
How many cities in the world
you imagine that there are 50 60 capable workshops
to take sculptures of more than 30 meters
on the street
obviously all this power without
control is useless and is a
little of we have to put the accent
once we left and came back the
next step
was to talk between the two festivals
talk between two cultures try
mix the two try to learn about
of others
nothing then what better than my daughter beatriz
dressed in fallera was born on March 19
I promise that I did not program it was like this and
since we are in folkloric plan
now I would like to teach is
a video you want momentazo of I had the
lucky to talk to the pyrotechnic
head of the nyman bar and the first day that
they give the announcement to celebrate with ten or
twelve fireworks only once in
the whole city because with this phrase
so typical Valencian because it was my
daughter who was the beginning to save
wrong
the biggest faller of the neighborhood and manolo
will remember all his life but good
taking away from the folkloric part to
final what we did also carry
to put together both festivals is a
it fails that you will tell me where is the
It fails and sometimes I wonder too
but really what we were interested in
it was not to stay in the aesthetic part
in the flaws are this way they are from
another we were interested in transmitting or
exchange values just like
Ted talks are worthwhile ideas
repeat then there were values that
we thought it was important to transmit
then what we took was the values
we thought it was important
share between valencia and the festival
of the neighborhood in van again the value of
cooperation and the community the
ground of this fault was once again a
mosaic of 25,000 pieces made by ones
200 300 torrent fallers for
symbolize that the work of the
community throughout the territory
of valence in which it made possible
the party was surrounded by a
golden skin based on the windows of the
slice
but it also incorporated 150 heads of
children that we were recovering
set with the artists’ guild
falleros that symbolized all this
Net working dam unknown
if all this wealth that is there and
that has made the whole story possible
artistic and cultural that many times
we have abandoned at the artist fair
fallero and many workshops over there and in
we do not give value and above all
that we wanted to convey that it was
possible to put all this together and put it together
a capacity for evolution that although
we were a traditional party
we are not closed to new languages and
to new ways of working and although
we believe that traditions are
immutable do not change they do not stop
change the question that we change them
we change them or the powers
with their brewers the
political powers
In short, I think there are many
rites in a tradition as long as
ours have been incorporated into the
party
you have to rethink the and see if those rites
that we have incorporated the party
respond to certain types of values
we have to divest ourselves of some and
replace them with values and be able
to give them our children instead of a
manual a book with a final part in
what they can write
what is its origin thank you very much
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