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| THE ARTIST // |
Zosen is a Barcelona based street-art artist.
He was co-founder of ONG crew, one of the most prolifics crews in Spain.
They defended human and animal's rights through performances, actions and art in the streets.
Since the end of ONG crew Zosen has been doing solo shows and collaborations with artists from all over the world. |
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| Zosen web |
| zosenong (a) hotmail.com |
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| Zosen // |
| My Subway experience [esp] scroll down for English version>>
Mi relación especial con el metro viene de algún tiempo atrás
cuando la gente relacionada con la cultura hiphop en Barcelona se reunía en la antigua
estación del metro de Universitat en la Línea 1. Allí se daban cita
breakers, skaters y bombers de graffiti. Nos contábamos nuestras hazañas y
aprendíamos de los más mayores, que tendrían en aquella época (1991) pues
unos 18-20 años, lo que hoy es la oldschool! |
bcn 2004 / bcn 2004 / bcn 2003
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Hacíamos metring que consistía en viajar enganchados en la parte trasera del
vagón sobre una pequeña plataforma y sujetándonos de los barrotes que había.
Nos hacíamos varias estaciones así y de paso tageabamos la cabina del
conductor.
El meeting era los domingos al mediodía y se reunía allí un
montón de gente de diferentes edades, barrios y realidades. Era algo
espontáneo pero que ya llevaba algún tiempo haciéndose y dónde las
distintas generaciones intercambiaban info de todo tipo : fanzines do it
yourself, flyers de fiestas, nuevos spots para pintar y dónde toda la gente
de ese movimiento (underground en el momento) nos podíamos conocer; o sea
movimiento underground que hacía meetings en una estación de metro, muy
simbólico.
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bcn 1995
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Los meetings en Universidad duraron, si mal no recuerdo hasta el ‘93/’94 ya
que la gente se empezó a disgregar y muchos se pasaron a otras “movidas”
tales como el bakalao, servicio militar o vida familiar. La magia de los
primeros años era que todos éramos superjóvenes y flipábamos con cualquier
cosa, todo era nuevo y encontrándonos con gente que hacía lo mismo que
nosotros, aunque fuera de otro barrio o ciudad, nos hacía una gran familia.
Recuerdo a un montón de policías poniendo contra la pared a adolescentes y
cacheándoles para ver dónde guardaban el marker , manifestaciones que
empezaban en la misma Plaza Universidad y aprovechábamos para unirnos y así
poder bombardear el centro de la ciudad, contenedores de basura cayendo
escaleras abajo de la estación, algunos chavales de mi barrio rociaban con
los extintores de incendio las caras de los machacas (agentes de seguridad
privada), otros les quitaban la porra y les pegaban con ella, en fin todo
era muy salvaje! |
bcn 2003 / bcn 2004
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Han pasado varios años ya pero cuándo uno crece con estas experiencias es
normal que el metro siga despertando ese interés en cualquier parte del
mundo a todos los que un día fuimos underground bombers.
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My Subway experience [eng]
My relationship with the subway began back when people relating to hip-hop culture in Barcelona used to meet in the old Universitá train station in the 1 line. Gathering were brakers, skaters and graffiti bombers. We lent each other our street stories and we learned from the oldest, who at the time (1991) would be between 18 or 20 years old, what today is known as the "old school"!
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bcn 1992 / bcn 2003
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We used to do metring [from the word metro which in Spanish means subway]; that was traveling on the back of the train where there was a tiny platform for our feet and bars to cling to. We traveled that way for a couple of stations while tagging the driver's cabin.
The meetings were on Sunday in the afternoon and there there were a lot of people of different ages, neighborhoods and realities. It was something spontaneous although for quite a while different genarations had been meeting to share info of all sorts: DIY zines, party flyers, new spots to paint... it was where all the people of the "movement", underground at the time, could meet. It was an underground movement that made meetings in the underground. Very simbolic.
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bcn 1996 / zosen + pax + kafre [right] |
| The meetings in Universitá lasted, if I'm right, until 1993-1994 as people started to follow their own paths and many changed to other "movements" like raving, military service or family matters. The magic of the first years was that we all were super young and flipped out with everything, all was new to us and we found people that used to make the same stuff as us even though they were from other neighborhood or city. It got us together like a big family.
I remember a lot of policemen pulling young people against the walls to frisk for markers. We took advantage of protests that started in the same Universitá Square to get together and bomb the center of the city, trash cans falling down stairs in the subway stations, some kids form my neighborhood used to spray the 'machacas' [subway private guards] faces with the fire extinguishers, others got their batons and hit them with them, anyway, everything was very savage!. |
Santiago de Chile 2006 / Paris 2001
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| It's been some years since then, but when you grow up with this kind of experiences it is normal that the subway remains interesting wherever you are, to every one that once was an underground bomber. |
London 2002 / Milano 2004 |
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