Conape DIY, Montevideo – Uruguay
The octagon was a fountain with a monument in the middle many years ago. Nobody knows how it ended up being a concrete space.
The octagon was a fountain with a monument in the middle many years ago. Nobody knows how it ended up being a concrete space.
I turned to discarded skateboards to convey these stories. Objects of mobility that have taken me to many of the places
Summer 2021, with the spectre of lockdowns, border tests and other problems of modern times.
Rollerdamm DIY in Vienna didn’t waste much time asking for permission when they started turning a shitty, junked up ditch, well hidden underneath a freeway bridge, into a one of a kind little skate refuge.
I was first introduced to Confusion mag by a red bearded vagabond skate diy lord who slung me a mag after I’d shown an interest in his latest concrete job.
Team Trouble is a skateboarding event with a different flavor. Instead of skaters competing one by one, they battle in teams and show crazy team combos.
When Covid kicked in and we got furloughed and told to stay indoors, we were straight down the building. It was hidden away, no one could bother us and the weather was red hot.
Together with Hudda & Danny, two of the Drechslerbrothers from the infamous HZW crew, straight outta Saarland/southwest Germany, i was on a 30 hour tour through Luxemburg in late August.
We need to go way back before 2005 when Jackson Mubiru most possibly spotted the first skateboarder in Uganda.