…ical and artistic way to capture your ideas, thoughts and needs to current urban transformations in todays cities. So in the end we all create movies and its online archive showing and analizing urban development from a social point of view for the people. Why is StreetWalking Important Against the background that urban development and transformation often ignores the needs and demands of its residents, StreetWalking will contribute to a social…
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…oduce a collective editing to understand the conditions which makes people urban or not and the signs and spaces where makes the people transform into an urban citizen. March 19th: 19:00 Improvise Audio Visual Performance : Devrim CK – Korhan Erel Neu West Berlin is a multifaceted Contempprorary Art Space in Berlin Mitte. More than 80 artists are based with their studios within the 9 story building. Neu West Berlin Köpenicker Straße 55, 10179 Berl…
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To good observers one thing is a fact: the past isn’t disconnected from the present, and at the same time will never be disconnected from the future. We live in cycles. Sometimes these cycles are more intense, sometimes slower. Slow cycles make us believe that history has crystallised. And often this is the impression I get regarding art in Brazil. Especially art as a manifest. Just as in the past, rupture movements keep happening in some societi…
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…syan. They are taught to turn into lyrics their life, and to deal with the urban changes of the place where they grew up through music : Sulukele artık bir burjuva yeri Devir değişti tabi Romanlara kötü gözle bakana Irkçı denmez aga // Sulukele became a place of bourgeoisie Times changed The ones discriminating the Roma Are not called racists anymore Rap and resistance Umut Mişe, a researcher from Boğaziçi University, opened the field of resea…
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…icians, dancers, performers and actors are invited to act and intervene in urban areas. The focus lies on a specific district in the city which is not much noticed by the public. “Speckschweiz” – the nickname of the district describes the formerly rich neighbourhood – is located near the city centre but marked by empty and not-used places such as shops, bars, apartments, squares and parks that are the locations of this years’ festival. The highlig…
Read More…rther information about this new computer game project. […] Read more… Urbanbugs Thomas BüschUrbanbugs is a documentary from Turkey focuses on street art concepts such as Graffiti, Stencil, Wheatpasting. Besides their visual contribution to the urban life, these street arts became a sociological matter due to the their political messages. In this context, this documentary is trying to analyse the sociocultural reflections of street art concept…
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…government employee named Yuri Tatarchuck and Carl Montgomery himself. The urban explorer UrbanX also went inside of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to learn more about the most radioactive place on Earth, and to take stunning photos. He documents how he got as close as 200 meters to the fateful reactor 4, and how he was guided through the contaminated wasteland. While he could walk through the area without special protective gear, he was advised to…
Read More…rther information about this new computer game project. […] Read more… Urbanbugs Thomas BüschUrbanbugs is a documentary from Turkey focuses on street art concepts such as Graffiti, Stencil, Wheatpasting. Besides their visual contribution to the urban life, these street arts became a sociological matter due to the their political messages. In this context, this documentary is trying to analyse the sociocultural reflections of street art concept…
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…rpretation and control of the urban and national space. The development of urban and national space often presupposes forms of physical or symbolic inclusion and exclusion as we can watch it in the Middle East in our times. In that respect the exhibition deals with a number of spatial metaphors such as barricades, boundaries and fences or so-called “gated communities,” and at the same time the destruction or penetration of these types of partition…
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