“Bonche” is a public intervention in the one of the most popular bus routes in Havana-the P4. With transportation being one of the key problems in Cuba the “guaguas”, buses, are notoriously crowded, uncomfortable and unreliable. They are spaces that belong to everyday life where various elements of a society converge creating a roaming microcosm. However, the strange intimacy created by bodies being pressed together reminded me of another public space-one of a party, concert or carnival. I was attracted to the hedonism inherent in “una fiesta” and the contrast that it provokes in a society characterized by enduring hardship.

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