Sundaying City consists of fieldwork about self-managed leisure practices in Barcelona. These practices involve resistance to the unworkable public space offered by the Barcelona Model, as well as to the growing global entertainment industry. These activities take place temporarily in areas of the city with no specific function, and resignify their meaning through the use people make of them.
The project focuses on three Sunday activities: pigeon competitions, car rallies and picnics, which combine the self-management of leisure, sociability, the occupation of public space, the generation of their own architectures and the defiant nature of their practices. Thus, the Sundayer takes on transgressive, almost heroic, overtones, within the new civic framework adopted by the city and the current entertainment and consumer society. The Sundayer attains relational zones of meeting and interaction, by practising the city and appropriating it.
By referring to these activities, the video Sundaying City seeks to confront the gaze of a viewer/consumer of passive leisure, with the practices of self-managed leisure.