Featured in the 18th Festival’s competitive show, the artist discusses his piece The World. He tells of how he became interested in travel guides during of his experience as a scholarship holder in Belo Horizonte. Due to his unfamiliarity with the city, he came into contact with travel guides offered to visitors. Initially, upon following these manuals’ instructions, he became hugely frustrated. Afterwards, however, frustration gave way to surprise, as he established a one-on-one relationship with the urban medium. Following these experiences, he started working with a utility knife on travel guides, rearranging them into an urban plan-like scheme. Escobar also shares his thoughts on the transit we establish with the so-called “globalized world” – an open horizon only in appeareance, for it is permeated by path-prescribing protocols that reduce the chances of authentically “knowing the world” that said displacements could enable.