Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum presents:
LANDREFORM
Consistory Talk I : The Artist and Urban Development
with
Pelin Tan, Istanbul
Andrej Holm, Berlin
Matteo Pasquinelli, Amsterdam
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 7 PM
Place: Neue Grünstraße 20, 5th floor, conference room
Due to limited space, seats will go first come first serve. We ask
that you arrive on time.
The land of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is in a state urban
transformation. Plans for development are on the horizon. Both
municipal authorities and private investors have been drawing up
ideas for this wasteland, which was once the boundary between East
and West Berlin. At our headquarters, we will host a discussion,
which looks at the subversive roles artists can play in urban
development, with a focus on site-specific strategies. The talk will
be led by 3 experts in their field, Pelin Tan, Andrej Holm, and
Matteo Pasquinelli. Stepping beyond a discussion purely on urban
theory, the talk is intended to develop strategies for artistic
practices in areas of urban renewal which are both critical and self-
cognizant. The talk will look at actual approaches to art making as
well as the residual affects of being an active artist-participant in
this landscape.
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Andrej Holm is a social scientist based in Berlin. He works for the
Department of Human Geography at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/
Main, teaches at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin and Leuphana
Universität , Lüneburg. His research focuses primarily on urban
regeneration, gentrification and international housing policies.
Since the 1990s, Holm has been active in diverse grassroots movements
and tenants' organizations in Berlin
(gentrificationblog.wordpress.org). His recent publications include:
Die Restrukturierung des Raumes. Machtverhältnisse in der
Stadterneuerung der 90er Jahre in Ostberlin (2006); Urban Renewal and
the End of Social Housing. The Roll Out of Neoliberalism in East
Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, in: Social Justice, Vol. 33, No. 3, (2006);
Kunst. Produkt. Gentrification, (zusammen mit Matthias Bernt), in:
Dillemuth, Stephan; Strau, Josef; Wieder, Axel John (Hg.): Jetzt und
10 Jahre davor. Zu den Verhältnissen von Kulturproduktion und
Stadtentwicklung (Katalog Kunstwerke Berlin 2005).
Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher at Queen Mary
University of London. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of
the Commons (2008) and edited the collection Media Activism (2002)
and C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). He frequently writes
on French philosophy, media culture and Italian operaismo. Since 2000
he has been the moderator of the Rekombinant mailing list. In 2008 he
co-organized the series of seminars The Art of Rent at Queen Mary
University of London. He lives in Amsterdam. Contact:
www.rekombinant.org/mat
Pelin Tan is a sociologist and art historian based in Istanbul. She
is a Phd candidate and research assistant at the Institute of Social
Sciences, Architecture faculty, Istanbul Technical University. She is
also the co-editor of Muhtelif contemporary art magazine, guest
editor of the contemporary art spatial issue of the Journal of Re-
Thinking Marxism, co-editor and curator of Public Turn in
Contemporary Art, santralistanbul, Bilgi Univ.2007, and a visiting
guest professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg with
a focus on architecture and urban research. Tan has published diverse
articles in books and catalogues about spatial politics and their
relation to contemporary art practices.
* LANDREFORM has received the generous support from Kunstfonds, Bonn.
UPCOMING OPENING:
21.Dec. 2008 3 p.m.
Mattthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Harry Sachs
CURRENTLY ON VIEW
Daniel Seiple, Fontäne
Markus Lohmann, Shiny Holes
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