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2/11/2007

Kiosk7: OudWestKiosk

Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

Exhibition by Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor

Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor is an artist group based in Birmingham, UK. They have developed an ongoing Kiosk project that exploits two ellipsoid concrete buildings located among a set of enclosures created for Dudley Zoo in the UK in 1937 by the Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin and his young architects group Tecton. In 2005 the artists reclaimed Kiosks 1 & 2 which had been abandoned and gave them a new life, distributing the specially commissioned multi-part book What are the senses?, to the zoo’s visitors.

They then set out to find new functions for the kiosks (from A for Aquarium to Z for Zeppelin) by making the original designs mobile and sending them on new adventures around the globe. By recreating the form of two of the human shelters of the zoo, they are working on a global network of kiosks as artworks, each responding to the location where it is situated. Kiosk3: MerzKiosk was an offsite project for Merz, Magazin4, Bregenz, Austria, 2006; Kiosk4 will be a Balti kiosk for Birmingham; Kiosk5: KiteKiosk (with Nils Norman) will take place at the Folkestone Triennial, UK, 2008, and Kiosk6: Intellect&ComprehensionKiosk was part of Strategic Questions Venice, 2007.

Kiosk7: OudWestKiosk for SMART Project Space in Amsterdam is an extensive, ongoing project that simultaneously functions as a competition, an art work and an exhibition. Earlier in 2007 Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor and SMART Project Space invited organizations within the local city council of Amsterdam Oud-West to propose new functions for the kiosk. After an edifying response from a broad range of Oud-West based groups and organizations, four proposals were selected to be developed for the final round of the competition. The artists selected the kiosk functions they consider most beneficial to the community and that enhance our understanding of the public realm. These four proposals form the core of the artwork and are presented in the form of an exhibition.

ElevatorKiosk - the kiosk as an elevator, bringing the visitor to the guest studio and the roof terrace of the Merkelbach building on the Da Costakade, proposed by M4gueststudio.
FloraKiosk - the kiosk as a natural oasis containing plants and an air-filtration system, located at a busy intersection in Amsterdam Oud-West, proposed by Beeldend Gesproken art library / gallery.
IslamicYouthKiosk - a kiosk that would serve as the podium for a variety of activities by Islamic youth, proposed by Stedelijk Jongerenwerk Amsterdam (Municipal Youth Organization Amsterdam), unit Argan.
StoryTellingKiosk - an inter-generational and inter-cultural storytelling kiosk, proposed by Stichting Tijdgeest (Spirit of the Time Foundation).

Kiosk7: OudWestKiosk incorporates aspects of architecture, urban planning and social systems within a framework of localized and international aesthetics, forms and ideals. Each entry has been designated a section of the kiosk (bar, roof etc.) as a symbolic sculptural gesture and has been invited to provide materials for use in the exhibition space to represent the organizations’ ongoing activities and aspirations. The artists have worked with the material resulting from the proposals through the principle of collage, appropriating and adapting quotes by Berthold Lubetkin and have playfully collaged and written a special edition of the publication series SMART Papers.

The winning Kiosk will be selected by an international panel of experts and exhibition visitors. SMART Project Space aims to realize the winning kiosk proposal in the public space of Oud-West in 2008.

Opening Reception: 3 November 2007, 21.00 hrs

SMART Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 105-113 - Amsterdam
Free admission

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