ZÉ DOS BOIS
http://www.zedosbois.org

This intervention consists in creating a way to legally "import" . American citizens interested in alternative ways of life. We will offer Americans the possibility to work at Zdb, a non-profit organization based in Lisbon, and therefore legalize themselves and live in Europe.

This project can be apprehended by the visitors through the following products: Application forms: Formally similar to all the paperwork in burocratic procedure.
Supplied by TRANSFER and to be filled in by the public.
The form will look very institutional but at the same time intriguing and fun to fill.
Location - the forms will be in one big pile.
With the same volume there will be two other boxes/plinths (one for answering the form and another to work as a ballot).
These three boxes/plinths would be side by side in a location that would permit visitors to walk round it.
Near the boxes would be lettering on the wall (or window if the space mentioned is available) with the title of the project, logo and some info . Rugs:
6 small front door rugs with graphics concerning world migration fluxes, placed strategically through out the exhibition space.
Desktop wallpapers, screen savers and mouse pads.
Flyers: Flyers would be distributed on strategic points concerning the exhibition - near the entrance of where events will take place (concerts, shows).
Website:
A website where one can simulate, in a game-like way, the procedures and discrepancies of getting a permit to stay in Portugal and at the same timegive out the real facts and information concerning immigration. We would like to see with you the possibility of having a link in the Yerba Buena site.

Managed collectively since 1994, ZDB organizes a wide variety of different activities united by the common objective – to support emerging art forms against institutionalized proposals.
ZDB is a nomadic structure that has occupied and recovered various abandoned areas in the city of Lisbon . As a centre of creation, production and visibility of emerging art forms, ZDB offers an experimentation space for emerging artists and for projects who thereby gain their first contact with the art world and general public.