OpenCity – Berlin
by _Andrew Brown (UK)
#temporary invented community #sonic archeology #post-industrial legacy #soundwalking #forms of instruction
8.08.14 / 12:00-14:00
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8.08.14 / 18:00-20:00
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9.08.14 / 16:00-18:00
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
_for the latest updates please follow the Facebook event for this tour
DETAILS:
_duration: 2 hrs
_language: EN with some content in DE
_number of participants: 10
_participants can bring notebooks and cameras if they choose to document the experience for themselves, but this is not compulsory_although Apple in-ear headphones are provided, participants might prefer to bring their own portable headphones to plug into the iPod (provided by the artist)
_in case of last minute changes you wil be also informed through your e-mail or phone
8.08.14 / 12:00-14:00
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
8.08.14 / 18:00-20:00
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
9.08.14 / 16:00-18:00
_buy your TICKET - SOLD OUT
_for the latest updates please follow the Facebook event for this tour
DETAILS:
_duration: 2 hrs
_language: EN with some content in DE
_number of participants: 10
_participants can bring notebooks and cameras if they choose to document the experience for themselves, but this is not compulsory_although Apple in-ear headphones are provided, participants might prefer to bring their own portable headphones to plug into the iPod (provided by the artist)
_in case of last minute changes you wil be also informed through your e-mail or phone
Meeting point: S-Ostbahnhof entrance on Erich Steinfurth Straße (opposite Spielothek)
EN /
OpenCity – Berlin provides an opportunity to become temporarily and playfully out of step with the momentum of the city.
In response to the changes resulting from the convulsions of global capitalism, as well as those we face simply as a consequence of our being social animals. OpenCity seeks to redefine our engagement with our everyday lives and the spaces we occupy.
Participants will be provided with an ipod containing a soundscape, featuring material relating to the sites through which we walk, as well as evoking other times and places.
In addition instructions will be given inviting participants to perform synchronized discreet public actions. OpenCity collective actions have been performed by groups in various cities around the world.
DE /
OpenCity-Berlin bietet die Möglichkeit, vorübergehend und spielerisch im Einklang mit der Dynamik der Stadt innezuhalten. OpenCity versucht unsere Verpflichtung mit dem alltäglichen Leben und den Räumen, die wir besetzen, neu zu definieren - als eine Reaktion auf die Veränderungen, die einerseits aus den Erschütterungen des globalen Kapitalismus hervorgegangen sind und die andererseits unserer Natur als gesellige Tiere geschuldet sind.
Die Teilnehmer werden mit einem iPod ausgestattet, der eine Geräuschkulisse offenbaren wird, mit Material zu den jeweiligen Orten und Erinnerungen an andere Zeiten und Orte.
Darüber hinaus werden die Teilnehmer Anweisungen erhalten, in der Öffentlichkeit diskrete synchronisierte Aktionen durchzuführen. Aktionen des OpenCity Kollektivs wurden von Gruppen in verschiedenen Städten auf der ganzen Welt realisiert.
_author / guide:
Andrew Brown has engaged in solo and collaborative projects involving sound, text, film and performance since the late 1970s. He is a Senior Lecturer on the interdisciplinary Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University and the writer of ‘Trial: a study of the devising process in Reckless Sleepers' Schrödinger's Box’ published by University of Plymouth Press.
Andrew founded the project Open City in 2006, inspired by a chance event witnessed in a city square in which several (presumably unconnected) individuals began to run in different directions at the same moment. Everyday urban behaviour has since been observed, sampled and released back into environments across Europe, North America and Japan.
website: www.artwalking.org
OpenCity – Berlin provides an opportunity to become temporarily and playfully out of step with the momentum of the city.
In response to the changes resulting from the convulsions of global capitalism, as well as those we face simply as a consequence of our being social animals. OpenCity seeks to redefine our engagement with our everyday lives and the spaces we occupy.
Participants will be provided with an ipod containing a soundscape, featuring material relating to the sites through which we walk, as well as evoking other times and places.
In addition instructions will be given inviting participants to perform synchronized discreet public actions. OpenCity collective actions have been performed by groups in various cities around the world.
DE /
OpenCity-Berlin bietet die Möglichkeit, vorübergehend und spielerisch im Einklang mit der Dynamik der Stadt innezuhalten. OpenCity versucht unsere Verpflichtung mit dem alltäglichen Leben und den Räumen, die wir besetzen, neu zu definieren - als eine Reaktion auf die Veränderungen, die einerseits aus den Erschütterungen des globalen Kapitalismus hervorgegangen sind und die andererseits unserer Natur als gesellige Tiere geschuldet sind.
Die Teilnehmer werden mit einem iPod ausgestattet, der eine Geräuschkulisse offenbaren wird, mit Material zu den jeweiligen Orten und Erinnerungen an andere Zeiten und Orte.
Darüber hinaus werden die Teilnehmer Anweisungen erhalten, in der Öffentlichkeit diskrete synchronisierte Aktionen durchzuführen. Aktionen des OpenCity Kollektivs wurden von Gruppen in verschiedenen Städten auf der ganzen Welt realisiert.
_author / guide:
Andrew Brown has engaged in solo and collaborative projects involving sound, text, film and performance since the late 1970s. He is a Senior Lecturer on the interdisciplinary Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University and the writer of ‘Trial: a study of the devising process in Reckless Sleepers' Schrödinger's Box’ published by University of Plymouth Press.
Andrew founded the project Open City in 2006, inspired by a chance event witnessed in a city square in which several (presumably unconnected) individuals began to run in different directions at the same moment. Everyday urban behaviour has since been observed, sampled and released back into environments across Europe, North America and Japan.
website: www.artwalking.org
Open City slow walk from Andrew Brown on Vimeo.
Photo: Louis Niedojadlo
Photo: Andrew Brown