The Semiotics of the City
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
4th – 18th September, 2009

The project "The Semiotics of the City" presents the international group of artists usually4 – Karolina Freino [Poland], Sam Hopkins [UK/Kenya], Teresa Luzio [Portugal] and Dusica Drazic [Serbia]. The group was formed as the extension of a cooperation between alumnis from the master program «Public Art and New Artistic Strategies» at the Bauhaus University Weimar that studied between 2003 and 2006. The artists collect information and create their works by moving within, and intersecting with, a city. They communicate with passers-by/citizens in a manner often referring to the broad field of walking art.

A guest of the project is Vanessa Mayoraz [Switzerland], also an alumni from the Bauhaus University Weimar.

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In the video-work "Motion Picture", Karolina Freino navigates already existing web cameras and, using a live-stream video of the constant movement in Belgrade (Trg Nikole Pasica), records her performative act that slips out of a common routine of that place – by breaking a routine she becomes visible.

In the project "6 hours for 6 days" that was realized in Wroclaw in 2006, Sam Hopkins explores the state of being stationary within a city that is in constant flux. Hopkins searched for patterns/routines within the city, but he also attracted people’s curiosity…

Teresa Luzio installs a flag on a pole in the Student City announcing her work "Bohemian Home" together with a series of photographs in the Gallery that remember an act of discarding the personal belongings that refer to a nomadic identity.

Dusica Drazic reconstructs "Deadend street" and by that connects the exhibition space and the public space. A viewer is in the gallery, but placed within the city – the photograph functions as a virtual gate taking the dimension of the corridor. The viewer performs a walk from the moment when he faces the deadend street and goes back taking a new path.

"Outer Circle" is the work by Vanessa Mayoraz which consists of five notebooks that will be given away at the opening. Visitors will use them to draw their favorite bench, street, window, or any other place within the city which is significant for them. By dissemination of these notebooks Mayoraz will detect existing personal networks that exist in the city.

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The project is supported by Swiss Cultural Program – Pro Helvetia Belgrade, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Ministry of Culture Republic of Serbia.
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Contact:
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
Bul. Zorana Djindjca 179
11070 New Belgrade
T:+381 11 2691 442
E: galerija@dksg.rs
www.dksg.rs

SENSESCAPES – Live event! at The O2

London Thursday 1st of October 2009
Workshops and live events: 14.00 – 18.00
Talks and Discussion: 19.00

Organized and curated by SPACEPILOTS [www.spacepilots.net] in association with BME [www.britishmusicexperience.com] Paulo Barbaresi and Stephanie Brandt [SPACEPILOTS] in collaboration with the British Music Experience Exhibition [BME] are setting up a day of talks, workshops, live demonstrations and an exclusive look at Britain’s newest interactive Exhibition at The O2, London exploring the relationship between sound, light, space and experience.

The symposium takes place at The British Music Experience Exhibition, The O2, Peninsula Square, London.

Tickets are sold by BME.

Talks: £ 5.00
Workshops: £10.50 per participant, including entrance to the exhibition. [Usual Exhibition Entrance Costs: £12.00 for Students and £15.00 for adults.]

tickets can be booked at: learning@britishmusicexperience.com
for more details contact: sensescapes@spacepilots.net

Living Landscapes Lecture Series*
Autumn 2009
Session 1 (5 October 2009): Public space and politics
Session 2 (2 November 2009): Art and agency: art and the creative city
Session 3 (7 December 2009): Alternative/subversive urban practices
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Location: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT, (http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk)
Free admission
*Sponsored by the AIA UK and hosted by The Building Centre

Stephanie Brandt (SPACEPILOTS) and Carol Mancke (Machina Loci) are investigating the idea of space as a living landscape: spaces, not simply defined by pure physical mass, but rather as repositories of accumulated action. Their project has three strands: a lecture series around the politics of public space, art and agency and subversive or alternative urban practices; student workshops in Japan, Bucharest and London; and an intervention in the public realm in London to take place on 6 September on Roscoe Street at White Cross near Old Street.
The first of the three lectures will take place at The Building Centre on the evening of 5 October 2009 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. The focus will be on broad relationships between public space, politics and democracy. Speakers will be: Dr Luis Arena, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza; the architect and thinker Uriel Fogué of Architecture Agency in Madrid and Dr Malcolm Miles, Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth.

GERMANDER SPEEDWELL'S WAYWARD WALKS

Spoken word artist Germander Speedwell will be leading her alternative tours of the City of London on most weekends on August.

These walks link little-known details, explaining the curious meanings and stories behind them, and incorporate Germander's fun but factual relevant spoken word pieces. No tourist sites, no invisible history - only things that you can actually see, but would normally miss or be mystified by. These walks are especially suitable for adults with an interest in art/sculpture, curiosities, London history and words. Mature children also welcome.

Walks, dates, and contact listed below; see also www.germanderspeedwell.org.uk for more info.

The Trail of the Mercers' Maiden and Golden Grasshopper:
Sunday 9 August, 2pm and Saturday 22 Aug, 2pm

This walk follows the trail of the Mercers' Maidens and Golden Grasshopper, exploring other recurring curiosities, discovering peculiar passages, and revealing some of the secret signs of the City. Begins and ends at Bank. Starts at 2pm, walk lasts approx 2.5 hours. £5, £4 concessions. Numbers limited to 10 places - please phone or e-mail to reserve a place and get the details of the meeting point. Contact: g.speedwell@yahoo.co.uk, tel: 07986 776 488.

The Trail of the Two-tailed Triton
Saturday August 15, 2pm and Saturday August 29, 2pm

A walk on the theme of things fishy and shippy in the City. Featuring curiosities of maritime and natural history, from scallops and swans, teasels and tritons, to Lloyds Ladies, Peek Tea, barge beds and pouty putti, Begins at Mansion House station, ends at Tower Hill. Starts at 2pm, walk lasts approx 2.5 hours. £5, £4 concessions. Numbers limited to 10 places - please phone or e-mail to reserve a place and get the details of the meeting point. Contact: g.speedwell@yahoo.co.uk, tel: 07986 776 488.

www.germanderspeedwell.org.uk

Private View, Friday, 31 July 2009, 7pm – 9pm
Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
The exhibition is open until 6 September 2009

BELGRADE: NONPLACES is an international exhibition that examines the city of Belgrade and its cultural, social, and political dilemmas.

The exhibition consists of 13 site-specific artworks by young artists from the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Georgia, Macedonia, Poland and Serbia. The site-specific works will be created within the city in many transitional places, abandoned buildings, parks, shops, etc. In this way, BELGRADE: NONPLACES will re-question the contemporary role of the museum institution and offer a new possible perception: the museum will leave the “white cube” behind and enters the city.

During the exhibition, The Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art will serve as an information point where the location and documentation of the artworks already completed can be seen. A few live-performances can also be followed from here.

BELGRADE: NONPLACES is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, in partnership with KulturKlammer and Anonymous said: and curated by Una Popovic and Dusica Drazic.

For more information visit: www.belgradenonplaces09.wordpress.com”

Join us on 25th and 26th July in building hands-on visions of future cities!

As part of the London 2012 Open Weekend and the Cultural Olympiad, the crew of the 'Power of 8' project is organising a weekend of public engagement at the Watermans Gallery on 25th and 26th July, from 1pm to 4pm.

Together we will be using LEGO and various other materials to create future cityscapes containing robots and farms and airships and whatever else you can think of!

Also we would like you to bring something with you - a found object, an image from the internet, anything that in a small way represents your personal aspiration for the future.

To find out about the project and event visit: http://powerof8.org.uk

Mile End Ancestors

27 July – 15 August 2009

Opening Event: Sunday 26 July, 3 – 5pm

Mile End Ancestors is an exhibition of art works that celebrate or commemorate an ancestor, created by members of local community groups and professional artists. All of the contributing artists either live in or were born in Mile End, or have a strong connection to the area. Their ancestors originate from around the world, including Somalia, Armenia, and Guyana.

Artists include: David Baillie, Amie Bolissian, Regina Fichtner, Uschi Gatward & Matthew Krishanu, Annette Peart, Mary Pullen, Jonas Ranson, Amanda Westbury, Kate Wiggs, users of the Ocean Somali Community Association, and of Poplar Day Centre, and students of Central Foundation Girls’ School.

Mile End Ancestors is the first of four annual visual arts heritage projects initiated by English Heritage Outreach, celebrating the Cultural Olympiad and the communities that live in East London.

Supported by Bow Arts Trust, Tower Hamlets Council, and Queen Mary, University of London.

Mile End Art Pavilion
Clinton Road (off Grove Road)
Mile End Park
E3 4QY

Opening Times: Monday – Sunday 12 – 6pm

Admission Free

Nearest Tube: Mile End Station
Buses: D6, 425, 277

Call for your unwanted houseplants!

The Wayward Plant Registry will be making a halfway home for wayward plants this summer at the Barbican on July 25-26 as part of the exhibition, Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing World, 1969-2009.

We are collecting potted plants in London that are unwanted, neglected, or abandoned, as well as plants that are rogue, stray or runaway.

Are you struggling to nurture the nature? Are they caught in the middle of a messy separation? Are they a contested inheritance? A domestic burden? Are they thorny? Needy-seedy?

Be in touch - we are open to pick-ups + cups of tea, drop-offs on doorsteps, and will follow anonymous tips. Please email hello@waywardplants.org with any leads.

*** EUROSPHERE Summer Course: 27-31 July in Tallinn

On July 27-31, 2009, the EUROSPHERE project organises a Summer School on Diversity and the European Public Sphere in Tallinn. The organisers welcome PhD students interested in relations between diversity and citizenship in the enlarging European Union.

Diversity is understood as comprising both the new phenomena arising due to immigration, the ethnic diversity represented by "old" m! inorities, gender issues, and by other religious and subcultural groups. Citizenship issues refer to all forms of social and political participation. What are the challenges and possibilities that the emerging European polity faces due to the surfacing of new and old minority identities?

The registration deadline is 22 June.

The programme of the course, contact details and other information are available here:
http://www.tlu.ee/?LangID=2&CatID=3680

Mile End Ancestors, English Heritage Outreach

Call for submissions

Artists working in any medium living in or born in Mile End, London, or with a strong connection to the area, are invited to create an art work in memory of one of their ancestors. Artists could work from their memories or family folklore, or from research, in order to create an art work that best captures the ancestor’s memory – perhaps a story, painting, audio recording or short film.

The exhibition at Mile End Art Pavilion will include works from professional artists and members of local community groups. It takes place 26 July – 15 August 2009, launching as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend. Mile End Ancestors is the first of four annual visual arts heritage projects initiated by English Heritage Outreach, celebrating the Cultural Olympiad.

Artists' submissions will be selected by Matthew Krishanu and Jason E. Bowman, an independent curator. Jason was curator for Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and is currently curating Anniversary - an act of memory by Monica Ross.

Documentation of completed art works to be submitted for selection by 28 June 2009. For details on how to apply and for terms and conditions, contact Matthew Krishanu, matthewkrishanu@gmail.com.