‘Night Watch’ was part of the
curatorial project Bueno, Bonito y
Barato curated by Elio Rodríguez
and Luis Gárciga Romay
Awarded in 2005 by the Spanish
Agency for International
Cooperation (AECID) and the
Spanish Embassy in Havana
(2005-2006)
Filmed and edited in Cuba
Video, PAL DVD, colour, stereo
5:30 min
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There are construction companies in Cuba that are prone to ‘losing’ their supplies. One of them was my local state carpentry. Taking advantage of my relationship with the watchman I obtained an agreed upon amount of wood from the carpentry and used it to build a watch-post to be located within the gates of the very same establishment. The watch-post was placed in a zone suitable for surveying and preventing thefts and actions similar in nature to the one I accomplished in order to create this watch-post. The post is being used by the same watchman who allowed me to ‘borrow’ the planks of wood in the first place, as well as by other unknowing guards.
