CITIES ON THE MOVE 6
The show on Asian urban conditions that was conceived and presented inEurope now comes to Asia for the first time. This step demands a prospective redefinition of its content and offers at the same time the opportunity to reconsider exhibition as medium through multiple formats adn locations. It should be any means go beyond the conventional art institution, reach out to different spaces in real urban life and directly encounter inhabitants of Bangkok. An exhibition about cities now inhabits the city itself.
LOCATION [SPACE]
The configuration consists of three different types of space:
- Gallery space [a number of small public and private galleries in Bangkok: Siam Society, Tadu Gallery, About Cafe and Studio, Project 304, the National Gallery, Silpakorn and Chulalongkorn University]
- City space [outdoor sites, architectural and urban places, Central Rama 3 shopping mall and United Artists Cinema, transportation systems liek the new Skytrain, etc]
- Media space [billboard, posters, busstops, newspapers -The Nation, magazine, television, etc]
The interconnection and juxta/superposition of these multiple spaces becomes the major task of Cities on the Move Bangkok...
CONTRIBUTION [FORMAT]
Participants are invited to contribute to the following list of possible formates of their ideas and works:
- Installation/environments
- Films/animations/performances
- Pictures/text/data
SCALE [RELATION]
Contributions will be collected and redisstributed on three different scales:
- Local [investigations of concrete social/spatial/economical situations in the city]
- Metropolitan [on a more general level data will be gathered on actual and historic situations of Bangkok, concerning development, economy, urbanism, politics, etc]
- Global [more or less (diss) connected material from other pars of the world will infiltrate the specific Bangkok project]
TIME [PROGRAM]
A series of events will take place throughout the duration of teh show:
- Videos/films [film screenings outdoors and in cinemas, constant projections and displays on monitors, timeslots on television, etc]
- Conferences and open days [at architectural practices, studios, etc]
- Performaces and activities in changing locations [with focus on the cultural and social mutations of the city]
The employment of existing structures within the city forms the basis of the Bangkok project. Instead of creating or imposing new formats, a negotiatio on numerous levels takes place. A map will try to reveal this inscription of the exhibition in time and space of the urban fabric. Next to the physical connections between the city and gallery spaces, the media usage acts as a tool to transgress matters of scale and habitual context. A shift from very local [sometimes maybe even personal] conditions into the metropolitan or global context and vice versa allows a new reading of those systems....
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