…at the pasquino, a fragment of an ancient statue. The citizens of today continue the urge to communicate and use their own city as a platform for this purpose, with pen and paper. This form of communication is reasonable, fast and easy to implement. It allows enormous design flexibility but its main advantage in comparison to the World Wide Web, radio, television and classifieds in magazines and newspapers, is the fact, that one can place a note r…
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…ngly governments and municipalities are forcing its poor people out of the city centre and to the very outskirts, where they have little to no access to the low-skilled jobs that are often their only choice, and that need to be performed in any city. David Smith discusses the impact of gentrification, radical redevelopment, the obligation cities owe to poor people as citizens and how experience in Western countries has shown that the experiment to…
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…ferent cities : Seoul, Bangkok, Istanbul, New York, Santurce and Guatemala City. Far from presenting a globalized and asepticized art, all these interventions are careful to offer an interconnected art that’s still acknowledging its regional grip, with local artists for each one of the cities. On the curating aspect, a special attention is given to the use of « a sustainable exhibition-making model of reducing exploitation (of natural resources, l…
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…days before I met with representatives from the Fondation Cartier and the City of Paris about the project. Both agreed, but then approximately three days beforehand, the City of Paris removed my name from the exhibition. I think they canceled it because they couldn’t explain it to anyone. But how do you stop or remove the rainbow from happening? I choose artworks that are ephemeral because, well, life is that. It’s such a temporary journey. Dav…
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…ravels, he captures his surroundings on location with pen on paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wallpaintings and on his web site as an interactive mapping app. GRRRR has been presenting his work continuously in a series of publications. The first is the self-published booklet “GRR1: video”, which appeared in 1998. The current book “GRR30: urban recording…
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…d City Crossword outside Li Ka Shing library, SMU. Innocuously playful on the surface, City Crossword raises important questions about the nature of urban planning and the public’s role in actively (re)claiming public space. The artists’ modus operandi of transforming the uses and functions of existing features of the cityscape challenges the functionalism and pragmatism that drive urban zoning imperatives in Singapore. It is in the spirit of play…
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…was on air Monday when news emerged of an Islamist faction in Mali desecrating a number of tombs in the ancient city of Timbuktu, which in recent months fell under control of a separatist insurgency. “The destruction is a divine order,” said a spokesman from Ansar Dine, a radical outfit with alleged links to al-Qaeda. According to reports, the militants have set about tearing down centuries-old mausoleums of Muslim holy men in Timbuktu, a Saharan…
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…and this part of the walls lost their characteristics as a result of a controversial restoration. (From Nezih Başgelen’s Archive)” (Source: Surlarin Öte Yani Zeytinburnu. On the other side of the city walls. Editor: Burçak Evren. Zeytinburnu. May 2003.) …
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…seems like the vision of a real gigantic cruising boat passing by. A kind of implentation of the essence of reality, we like to switch of. See also Tin City by Cosentino at InEnArt or have a look at Cosentino’s Istanbul…
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