Exhibition : Searching for an ideal urbanity When the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre criticized urbanism as an authoritarian and immediately-antiquated controlling practice in the 1970s, he suggested observing the ³urban condition² his term for the time¹s shift in the social economic and therefore also urban space as a complex, independent and unstable network of relationships.
Which forms of urbanity have developed in the present? How is the ³urban condition² influenced by the local context? How are traditions reflected in it? Is the (public) space the gauge for deciphering change? Because the image of the ideal city as we know it from the renaissance is increasingly dissolving, a new concept of urbanity could function as an instrument for our survival. The exhibition is conceived as an initial experiment as a platform for exchanging ideas of the topic. The project was initiated by Fabrizio Gallanti (Architect, Italy) and Jean-Baptiste Joly. Artists include: Pier Vittorio Aureli (Architect, Italy), Sarnath Banerjee (Author, India), Dafne Berc/Luciano Basauri (Architects, Croatia), Sanford Biggers (Artist, USA), Susanne Bürner (Artist, Germany), Jean-Francois Chevrier (Art historian, France), Karin Damrau (Architect, Germany), Ingrid Hora (Artist, Great Britain/Italy), Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer (Artists, Germany), Andrea Melloni (Composer, Germany/Italy), Ligia Nobre (Architect, Brazil) with Paola Salerno (Photographer, France/Italy), Marzena Nowak (Artist, Poland), Margareth Obexer (Author, Germany/Italy), Zoran Pantelic (Artist, Serbia), Patricia Reed (Artist, Canada/Germany), Henrietta Rose-Innes (Author, South Africa), Alexander Schellow (Artist, Germany), SMAQ (Architects, Germany/Netherlands), Cobi van Tonder (Composer, South Africa), Popok Tri Wahyudi (Artist, Indonesia), Stephen Waddell (Artist, Canada/Germany), Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Architect, Serbia/USA), Annett Zinsmeister (Architect and artist, Germany). Hours: Tue-Thurs 10am-noon & 2-5:30pm, Fri 10am-noon & 2-4pm, Sat-Sun noon-5:30pm AkademieSchloß Solitude 70197 Stuttgart Deutschland Tel. +49 (0) 711 99 61 90 Fax +49 (0) 711 99 61 95 0 ------ Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
