BurstOut, 2006

BurstOut takes place in the community of San Mateo de los Cangrejos in Santurce, Puerto Rico. In the now empty Iglesias Street where reisdents were evicted and their homes demolished, a pneumatic tire connected to an air compressor suddenly appears and starts to inflate itself. While the tire is expanding and becomes deformed by the air pressure generated from the compressor, we see a community in ruins, deformed by the process of urban development that has begun in the Santurce district. The process of gentrification, like the air pressure generated by the compressor that ultimately causes the tire to explode, not only makes property owners wealthy and boosts local tax revenues, but also has negative consequences such as displacement and isolation.