Urbanity and Anonymity
dal 19/7/2002 al 4/8/2002
Segnalato da
19/7/2002
Urbanity and Anonymity
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
An installation or an exhibition is always also a construction of ideas. In order to make the extent of one of the conceivably largest mega-cities experienceable, Cida de Aragon and Steffen Lehmann point to the irinstallation on essential interrelationships and the characteristics of urbanity in São Paulo: the loss of individuality in the city and the taking over of public space by the closely meshed bus network.
Cida de Aragon
in cooperation with Steffen Lehmann. An exhibition within the scope of the
project "Rethinking: space, time and architecture" on the occasion of the XXI.
World Congress of Architecture UIA Berlin 2002.
City Surfaces > São Paulo:
Urbanity and Anonymity
An installation or an exhibition is always also a construction of
ideas. In order to make the extent of one of the conceivably largest
mega-cities experienceable, Cida de Aragon and Steffen Lehmann point to
their
installation on essential interrelationships and the characteristics of
urbanity in São Paulo: the loss of individuality in the city and the
taking over of public space by the closely meshed bus network. São Paulo
is a "city without features" as the city has no strongly defined
character, no clear centre, but consists of endless strung-together rows
of indifferent, characterless buildings and places and the endless
repetition of the same pattern.
The effects of the modern era are very
visible: all over the city there is visibly modern architecture. The
rapid pace of modernisation led to conflicts conditioned by the
civilisation process, so that the contrast between the civilised, highly
mechanised world and genuine poverty mould the city image of São Paulo.
The installation refers to phenomena such as "isolation in the midst of
the masses" and "mass mobility".
Sense of place and feeling for time
have changed greatly in the digital revolution. In cities, those who can
no longer keep pace with the knowledge-based society will be
concentrated in future in the bottom third of so- ciety. Mobility is
increasingly reserved for a particular group. Deceleration: mobility in
São Paulo has become more difficult in recent years.
Instead of
acceleration, the city is static, stuck at an increasing rate of slowing
down. The uncontrolled growth in traffic hides the danger of paralysis
to the city organism and leads to a loss of quality of urban life. The
street is increasingly being given up as a living space. Cida de Aragon
shows us an image-emphasised piece of work: scraps of images which are
now and then eclipsed by loud droning also evoke that trance-like state
which the title plays on.
The project "City surfaces > São Paulo" is simultaneously a criticism of
and enthusiasm for this Mega-City,
experiencable through sounds, layered images and projections.
opening: saturday, 20.07.2002, 17:00 to 21:00 cet
galeriestour : 24.07.2002, 17:00 to 23:00 cet
duration: 20.07. - 04.08.2002
opening times: tuesday to saturday from 11:00 to 18:00
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