Urban ecologies
dal 26/3/2003 al 27/3/2003
Segnalato da
26/3/2003
Urban ecologies
Foundation for Art and Creative Technology - FACT, Liverpool
This one-day seminar explores the role contemporary art and artists may play in the remediation of an 'urban ecology'. Six speakers exchange views and experiences of art working in urban spaces and the resultant contribution to a sense of community and citizenship.
Thursday 27 March 2003
Liverpool Biennial @ FACT
10.00-17.00
Admission free but places are limited.
How do cities juggle the requirement for managerial accountability and the
creation of conditions that allow for the emergence of imaginative
self-organisation? Can we bring 'trash', 'waste', and the discarded or
repressed back into play as creative beginnings?
This one-day seminar explores the role contemporary art and artists may play
in the remediation of an 'urban ecology'. Six speakers exchange views and
experiences of art working in urban spaces and the resultant contribution to
a sense of community and citizenship.
Dynamic cities are no longer understood as coherent unities, but are
increasingly interpreted as complex systems constituted by the mutually
determining interactions of different communities and processes. We can
understand this matrix as an urban ecology on three levels; the personal,
the social and the environmental. Contemporary art plays a significant role
in this ordering where it reaches outside established policies and
perspectives asking questions and inspiring reflections. Art festivals 'are
seen as vital in drawing communities together, in improving the environment
and boosting the economy' (FT, 01/06/2002, p.1)
Speakers:
Azra Aksamija (Princeton), Lourdes Fernandez (Manifesta 5, Donastia - San
Sebastian), Lily van Ginneken/ Jan Wijle (Stroom, The Hague), Jonathan
Harris (Chair, Liverpool). Kyong Park (International Center for Urban
ecology, Detroit), Christoph Schaefer / Park Fiction (Hamburg).
Urban Ecologies is organised by Liverpool Biennial in collaboration with
FACT.
The seminar has been made possible through the support of Liverpool Culture
Company as part of G-Litter
Liverpool Biennial
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Location:
FACT
88 Wood Street
Liverpool L1 4DQ
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