E quando o projecto acabar? Publicam-se uns textos bonitos, fazem-se umas exposições agradáveis e vão todos para casa onde a palavra "social" não vem colada à palavra "problema"? Gostava de olhar para estes ditos projectos e acreditar que mudam alguma coisa de um modo permanente mas só vejo uma mudança tão efectiva como aplicar base numa borbulha infectada.

"FLOATING PEERS 2013 is a project for community art practitioners organised jointly by Artists' Association MUU and the Porapara Space for Artists in Bangladesh. The project will involve 37 participating artists from Finland, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Nepal and South Korea. The participating Finnish artists are Kalle Hamm, Anna Knappe and Rita Leppiniemi. The Finnish project coordinator is artist JP Kaljonen.

Landless people who have fled from the countryside to the cities are a serious and rapidly growing social problem in Bangladesh. Many of them live on the fringes of society without permanent abode or basic necessities, earning their livelihood by collecting refuse, hawking or as rickshaw pullers. Social instability deprives children of school education and exposes young people in particular to all kinds of exploitation.

FLOATING PEERS 2013 project will consist of a series of workshops in which the participating artists develop and carry out community initiatives with street children and their families in the Porapara area. The goal of the project is to develop, in collaboration with local artists and experts, artistic means to involve and empower this segment of the population, to enhance their quality of life and give public exposure to the issue."