Cyber-PiraMMMida
By Barbara Penner
We are currently in an extraordinary time.
A time of reversal.
A time of subversal.
A perfect time for (Cyber)PiraMMMida..
Sketches of proposal for Sale Docks by David Brodsky
Conceived by the Perverting the Power Vertical (PPV) collective, PiraMMMida was originally planned as an installation, a deconstructed pyramid, to be built by artists, architects, academics and activists in the S.a.L.E. Docks in Venice. The installation was a heterotopic riff on the official 17th Venice Architecture Biennale of Architecture’s theme of ‘How will we live together?’ Rather than assuming commonality is straightforwardly achievable, PiraMMMida took a different starting point – pyramid schemes – and asked how the ‘fake horizontal’ of the financial pyramid scheme is re-manifesting itself today, in the form of crypto-currencies like BitCoin, digital social platforms and sharing economies.