El Martillo Project (Paperback)

Eclectic Electric Collective

ISBN 10: 1570272506 / ISBN 13: 9781570272509

Published by Autonomedia, Brooklyn, 2012

About this Item

Paperback. In 2010 a suitcase was sent from Berlin to Mexico City containing a 39-foot tall inflatable hammer. Thus began El Martillo's odyssey to protest the UN Climate Conference in Canc[n. El Martillo's short life climaxed when protesters from Marea Creciente (Rising Tide) stormed the conference, gigantic hammer above their heads. In full view of the press Mexican police tore the inflatable to pieces. The El Martillo Project documents the process from its conception and construction to the media flurry it sparked off. Included are numerous full color images. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: El Martillo Project (Paperback)
• Publisher: Autonomedia, Brooklyn
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570272506
• ISBN 13: 9781570272509
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In 2010 an inconspicuous looking suitcase was sent from Berlin to Mexico City containing a 39-foot tall inflatable silver hammer. Thus began El Martillo's odyssey to protest the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancún. El Martillo's short, but glorious life, climaxed when protesters from Marea Creciente (Rising Tide) stormed the conference complex fences, gigantic hammer above their heads. In full view of the press Mexican police tore the inflatable to pieces. Within an hour global the media corporations declared El Martillo a symbol of the climate changes protests as it's image traveled across the world.



The El Martillo Project documents the whole process from its conception and construction to the media flurry it sparked off. Included are numerous full color images and documentation of the project; texts and analysis by David Graeber, Alex Dunst, and Cristian Guerrero; an interview with John Jordan from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination; and a fold out technical manual and plan for creating giant inflatable hammers.



Initially inspired by the quote "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it," The El Martillo Project aims to inspire creative action and joyful disobedience.