Ed D’Souza

How far can a wrecked car move in a car-free city? Ed D’Souza’s project for osloBIENNALEN is Migrant Car, a sculpture in which a three dimensional photograph of a crashed car reproduced in full size is wrapped around a wooden framework built in a joiner’s workshop at Markveien. The ‘car’ was rolled about to different places in Oslo in 2019, before moving on to Bergen and back to Oslo again.

Biography

ED D’SOUZA (Robert E. D’Souza, 1969, UK) is an artist, designer and Professor of Critical Practice at Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton, based in London. He is known for his temporal, site-specific and participatory/collaborative art and design projects many of which connect to his Indian heritage. His work explores critical practices that engage with a variety of production processes and producers and is supported by his critical writings around social, political and cultural change. Recent projects have been shown in art institutions, biennials and public spaces in China, India, Spain and the UK.

Essays

Kamilla Freyr is a PhD candidate in philosophical aesthetics at the University of Uppsala. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in philosophy as a reflective practice addressing contemporary art and art communication.

In this interview, she speaks to Furniture Upholsterer Eddie King and some of his partners, who built the Migrant Car.

Read the essay here:
ON CRAFTSMANSHIP, CONTEMPORARY ART

AND A CAR ON ITS TRAVELS


Denis Bocquet is a Professor of Urban and Architectural History and Theory, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg (ENSAS) and a member of the research group AMUP. His work focuses on the history of urban planning in Europe and the Mediterranean, and on contemporary cities in Europe, the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia.

In the following essay, he writes about Oslo municipality’s urban environment initiative “Bilfritt byliv,” which had a special significance as the backdrop for Ed D’Souza’s project.

Read the essay here:
THE CAR-FREE ZONE


Åshild Kristensen Foss completed her studies in BA Art and Dissemination at Oslo Metropolitan University, while she participated in the Migrant Car-project. She has for over a month documented the building of the car sculpture at Eddie King's workshop at Grünerløkka.

This essay consists of an edited dialogue between the British artist Ed D'Souza and Åshild Kristensen Foss.

Read the essay here:
BEYOND PARTICIPATION INTO ART

Migrant Car Blog

To look back on Migrant Car's journey through Oslo's Car free zone, check out the cars own blog here.

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