1-800 DESIRES
NEW INSTALLATIONS
CONTEXT ART MIAMI 2026
A new project by Carla D’Amato.
To be revealed in Miami.
1-800 DESIRES
Desire precedes action.
Action alters the world.
An ongoing participatory art project by Carla D’Amato
WHAT
SETS
DESIRE
IN
MOTION?
1-800 DESIRES begins from that unstable interval between an inner impulse and its projection into reality.
Desire is approached here not as fantasy or aspiration, but as a living force: intimate in origin, yet never entirely private. Once it moves toward action, it enters a field already occupied by other intentions, other possibilities, other limits and other forms of power.
The project unfolds within this field.
Through participatory installations, individual impulses accumulate, intersect, reinforce one another, compete, disappear, acquire visibility or encounter resistance. Desire becomes movement, exchange, friction and consequence.
Questions of access, value and influence remain embedded in that movement. What is allowed to advance? What can be accelerated? What can be acquired? What remains outside the mechanisms capable of transforming intention into possibility?
Participation does not simply contribute to the work. It alters its trajectory.
Each desire introduced into 1-800 DESIRES enters a shifting collective configuration. These contributions are not preserved as a passive archive: they become material for what follows. One project generates the conditions of the next.
In this continuous displacement, individual will and collective force coexist without resolving into a single direction — overlapping, interrupting and transforming one another, much as they do within life itself.
The work therefore remains unfinished by design.
It moves from desire to action, from action to consequence, and from consequence toward another beginning.
What happens when desire exceeds the individual and enters a collective field?
THE COLLECTIVE FIELD
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CHOOSE HOW TO PARTICIPATE
01 . ACTIVATE
KEEP A DESIRE IN MOTION
Give one desire your Thank You and help move it forward.
02 . MAKE IT PHYSICAL
PLACE YOUR DESIRE IN THE INSTALLATION
Take your desire from the virtual field into the physical work.
03 . PLACE
PLACE YOUR DESIRE
Add your desire to the collective field and become part of what the project sets in motion next.
04 . CONTINUE
BECOME PART OF WHAT COMES NEXT
Support the evolution of 1-800 DESIRES and participate in future projects as they take form.