_Wasteland Twinning Network (DEU/GBR), Recreation Ground
#Architectural simulations #Eisfabrik #Participants as fictional/real characters
31.08.13 at 14:00, between the River Spree and Köpenickerstr. 36-38, 10179
3 hrs, English/German
Participants will be provided with props/attire and a changing area
Maximum group size: 50 people.
The first 50 participants will have their entry paid for by Wasteland Twinning.
"Recreation Ground Berlin" is comprised of two parts, "Artist's Impression" and "Brownfield Narratives".
"Artist's Impression" is a mass-participation, public art project focusing on unrealised development plans for wastelands in Nottingham, Amsterdam and Berlin. The project invites collaboration with communities around these sites to stage re-creations of the architectural visualisations that accompanied master plans for their development, casting participants as fictional characters populating unrealised architecture. The parallel audio project, "Brownfield Narratives", aims to give depth to these fictional characters by focusing on the participants or re-enactors real lives.
"Recreation Ground Berlin" takes place across a wasteland at the center of a host of building developments reshaping an area of Kreuzberg, Berlin. Clearances and the subsequent emergence of new-builds have advanced over recent years between the river Spree to Melchoirstrasse (N-S), and Michaelkirchstrasse to Shillingbruecke (W-E). The Sanierungsgebiet, or urban renewal project, could see the final eviction of the Koepi Squat after 23 years of resi(s)dence, (http://www.koepi137.net), the demolition of the Eisfabrik (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisfabrik_)(Berlin-Mitte) and the displacement of many other groups.
"Artist's Impression" is a mass-participation, public art project focusing on unrealised development plans for wastelands in Nottingham, Amsterdam and Berlin. The project invites collaboration with communities around these sites to stage re-creations of the architectural visualisations that accompanied master plans for their development, casting participants as fictional characters populating unrealised architecture. The parallel audio project, "Brownfield Narratives", aims to give depth to these fictional characters by focusing on the participants or re-enactors real lives.
"Recreation Ground Berlin" takes place across a wasteland at the center of a host of building developments reshaping an area of Kreuzberg, Berlin. Clearances and the subsequent emergence of new-builds have advanced over recent years between the river Spree to Melchoirstrasse (N-S), and Michaelkirchstrasse to Shillingbruecke (W-E). The Sanierungsgebiet, or urban renewal project, could see the final eviction of the Koepi Squat after 23 years of resi(s)dence, (http://www.koepi137.net), the demolition of the Eisfabrik (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisfabrik_)(Berlin-Mitte) and the displacement of many other groups.
Alex Head, David Bell, Rebecca Beinart & Mathew Trivet
Alex Head (UK) currently works in the UK and Berlin, Germany. Head is an artist and educator interested in creating non-hierarchical networks of artists, researchers and citizens. His practice facilitates meetings between artists and non-artists within the communities and micro-communities that populate the artist’s working environment. Head’s process often involves organising temporary working communities with the aim of exploring and archiving ideas and spaces on the cultural periphery. He is the Co-Director of Wasteland Twinning Network with Lars Hayer, Matthias Einhoff and Will Foster.
David Bell (UK) is a political theorist, artist and musician based in Nottingham. He has recently completed a PhD developing a concept of 'Nomadic Utopianism' in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, Nottingham. Informed by communist and anarchist praxis, he is interested in exploring the links between place, social organisation and artistic practice.
Rebecca Beinart is an artist and educator currently based in Nottingham (UK). Her projects explore the territory between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events in public places, installations and interventions. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, she seeks to interrupt assumptions and understand multiple perspectives. Her projects both respond to and create new situations.
Mathew Trivett (UK) is an artist and producer based in Nottingham. Often sited in the public domain, his practice examines the critical relationships between people, place and technology. His work is concerned with the dynamics of communities of practice; creating situations for knowledge production and exchange utilising design systems, playful intervention and networks as catalysts for (re)imagining alterior futures.
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David Bell (UK) is a political theorist, artist and musician based in Nottingham. He has recently completed a PhD developing a concept of 'Nomadic Utopianism' in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, Nottingham. Informed by communist and anarchist praxis, he is interested in exploring the links between place, social organisation and artistic practice.
Rebecca Beinart is an artist and educator currently based in Nottingham (UK). Her projects explore the territory between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events in public places, installations and interventions. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, she seeks to interrupt assumptions and understand multiple perspectives. Her projects both respond to and create new situations.
Mathew Trivett (UK) is an artist and producer based in Nottingham. Often sited in the public domain, his practice examines the critical relationships between people, place and technology. His work is concerned with the dynamics of communities of practice; creating situations for knowledge production and exchange utilising design systems, playful intervention and networks as catalysts for (re)imagining alterior futures.
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