http://www.parkfiction.org/unlikelyencounters/index.php
http://www.parkfiction.org/index.html
After an intensive seven year process of wishing, planning and negotiating, culminating in its presentation at Documeta11, Park Fiction, a long-term planned park project in Hamburg St. Pauli, with and from a collective of its residents, is in the midst of realization.
One year after Documenta 11, Park Fiction's installation returns to Hamburg. For the first time, the installation will be shown in its place of origin, St. Pauli, on the Reeperbahn.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an international congress: Unlikely Encounters (in urban space), with groups from Delhi/India, Tijuana/Mexico, La Plata/Argentina, Milan/Italy and Berlin - Munich - Hamburg/Germany.
Urbanism and the appropriation of cities have meanwhile become central questions in art discourse. What appeared to be a marginal theme skirting the outer limits of the art system has, with increasing dominance, settled down at biennials and international exhibitions, coming into its own as a separate, vivid branch in art. Especially now, at the end of the industrial age, new methods of urban practice are developing all over the world, which broaden the idea of the possibility for artist actions and interventions in the city space.
Posted by walkinginplace at January 29, 2005 11:43 PM