39grama: In-between Zone Workshop - Budapest, June 16-23, 2007

07 май 2007

In-between Zone Workshop - Budapest, June 16-23, 2007

uclqmgo@ucl.ac.uk wrote:

Subject: In-between Zone Workshop - Budapest, June 16-23, 2007

Zdraveite,

molia vi da razprostranite sred mnogobroinite urban/sociology izsledovateli,
studenti i syotvetno vizualni artisti, koito biha se zainteresuvali ot proekta.
Edna sedmica v Budapeshta vinagi e dobra idea, osobeno sred adksi silnata
urban_studies/ urban_arts sreda v tozi grad.

Pozdravi,
Marga
London

Impex - Contemporary Art Provider announces a call for participation at
the Inbetween Zone workshop.

Challenged by the ongoing rapid and substantial transformation of
urban environment, IMPEX aims to act as a platform for the critical
analysis of urban development, social discourse and collaboration in
art and cultural practices.
Therefore, with its own location as a starting point, and at the same
time encompassing a wider general discourse on the role of cultural
potentials in urban development, IMPEX initiates a long-term
interdisciplinary research project. This long-term project will
include workshops, exhibitions, public interventions, publications and
other alternative methods of collecting, generating and organizing
ideas and knowledge.

The first stage of the project is the workshop entitled Inbetween
Zone, which will take place from 16 to 23 June 2007, simultaneously
with the 7th Biennial of European Towns and Town Planners.
(http://www.makingplaces.hu)

The 'Corvin Promenade' project covers an area larger than 80,700 m2 in
a zone of the VIII. district adjacent to the downtown
(http://www.corvinsetany.hu), presently undergoing complete urban and
architectural reconstruction. Meanwhile, development projects of a
different scale, but similar impact as regards urban restructuring,
are under way in two neighboring districts (VII, IX). This continuous
zone, reaching over districts, will be the ground of the workshop.

Themes of the Workshop are:
1. Public art and urban planning
2. Techniques of collective and individual intervention: how
inhabitants can use and form their own living-space
3. Grassroots: creative, grassroots initiations vs. urban planning
4. Limits to planning: limitations of urban planning projects
5. Mistake assessment: analysis and planning of errors in city
development projects.
6. Urban policy and identity formation: urban legends ? local heroes

Workshop structure:
Throughout a one-week workshop 30 selected participants will work out
the above listed topics in 5 different groups (approx. 6
people/group), with the guidance of tutors. Methods and approaches
will be developed collectively within the group. The results of the
workshop will be introduced in the form of an exhibition and a public
presentation in Impex.
The official language of the workshop is English.

What do we provide?
Maximum 100 EUR traveling cost for the participants, accommodation and
production costs of the workshop.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge.

Whom do we expect?
Hungarian and foreign applicants who are engaged in the fields of
culture, commerce, media or social sciences (artists, architects,
sociologists, urbanists, cultural managers, philosophers, filmmakers,
anthropologists, designers, economists, managers, communication
experts, etc.).

The application has to include:
CV and attached documentation of relevant professional practices in
English or Hungarian. We accept applications via email, not larger
than 1 MB, to the following address: urbancreativity@gmail.com

Deadline for applications: 14 May 2007

The workshop is realized through the collaboration of IMPEX ?
Contemporary Art Provider and FKSE ? Studio of Young Artists
Association.

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IMPEX - Contemporary Art Provider is a new art scene in the 8th
district of Budapest. The venue, which consists of a gallery, a
workshop room and an office, presents experimentally minded and
progressive artwork. It also accommodates studio practices, lectures
and creative, interdisciplinary initiatives. Its objective is to aid
cooperation and permeability between different areas of art, and,
through its open and receptive structure, create a living connection
with various social groups and civilian initiatives.

Due to a mutually beneficial cooperation between a bar (club) and a
non-profit cultural institution, IMPEX is presently found in the
building of West Balkan (http://www.west-balkan.com). ? one of the
last, temporarily standing houses in a large territory going through
complete architectural and urban metamorphosis.

Organizers of the workshop: Tamás Kaszás (artist), Katarina Sevic
(artist), Rita Kálman (art historian, independent curator), Sophie
Dodelin (artist)

Further information: contact@impex-info.org
www.impex-info.org