This scheduled event will begin at Conflux HQ - Zone C on Saturday, September 13, and will run from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM. RSVP is required. RSVP now >>.

Project Description:

“Tango is a practice already ready for struggle. It knows about taking sides, positions, risks. It has the experience of domination/resistance from within… It is a language of decolonization… Let your feet do the thinking. Be comfortable in your restlessness. Tango.” – Marta E. Savigliano, “Tango and the Political Economy of Passion”

30-50 people will tango across the Brooklyn Bridge, interrupting the flow of city business with intimate sensual acts. WWW.TangoIntervention.org re-contextualizes “Tango Crossing, Brooklyn Bridge” (TCBB) as a reflection on the bridge relative to immigration, re-migration and identity. On the street TCBB is essentialist/absurdist/romantic. On the web TCBB is critical/political/deconstructive. Those encountering the work can also access other interpretations by calling TCBB audio programs on their mobile phones. Through the phone and web interfaces anyone can contribute his or her own interpretation of the event.

A vast immigrant mix in Argentina around 1900 created Tango. Tango continuously evolved, ‘re-migrating’ and returning anew to its sources. TCBB uses the colonial/post-colonial hybrid culture of Tango as a lens to look at globalization.

When immigrant labor completed the bridge 125 years ago, it initiated a re-migration of immigrants from tenements in Manhattan to Brooklyn. TCBB references this 1883 remigration, as well as cultural/economic relocation from Manhattan to Brooklyn in recent decades.

TCBB follows “Tango Interventions” in Vienna, Chicago, and other cities. More are scheduled for Los Angeles, Denver, Phnom Penh, and Seoul.

To participate as a volunteer please email: tangointervention@gmail.com.