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In collaboration with Eclectic electric Collective we produced a gigant inflatable hammer and send it to Cancún/Mexico for cop16 the UN climate conference in december 2010.
The 12m large object was designed and built by the berlin based artist collective as an act of solidarity for the struggle against climate disease.
The original hammer was built specially for the anti-COP16 protests in Cancun / Mexico (2010) where it was brought from berlin as an activist-solidarity simbol between berlin artist and mexican activist-groups.
El Martillo was born in order to visualise that worldwide climate struggle into one iconic image: a twelve meter tall inflatable “Trojan” sculpture completely in silver. Just like the Trojan horse it has been smuggled into the enemy camp in order to transport a message that would normally never reach the mainstream media.
El Martillo was put into action by the climate justice group Marea Creciente Mexico on the demonstration of 30th of November in Mexico City and afterwards in various other demonstraitions in the frame ofCOP16. On that demonstrations social movements converge to protest for the rights of Mother Earth at the COP 16. The first version Hammer was distroyed by the mexican police the 7. of december 2010.
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