Does the fact of not continuing constitute a failure?
Don Facundo, who was one of the taxi-driver transmitters in Mexico City and one of those most involved in the project, said to me one day: ‘After twenty years sitting in the taxi twelve hours a day in the infernal traffic of this huge and chaotic city, this project has reminded me that the imagination exists.’ I think that remark means it was a success. But the best outcome would be independent continuity, outside of the artistic umbrella that made these channels of communication possible. In the light of this there is no need to talk of success or failure. One of the questions that some of the transmitters with disabilities asked me during the first few days was whether canal*ACCESSIBLE was meant to achieve anything. There are no more revolutions now, but I like to think that there is the possibility of changing the way that certain groups are perceived. No doubt the barriers that confront them every day will not disappear overnight, but there may still be a change of sensibility in t
