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What is a city?

August 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

By Nadim Karam, Atelier Hapsitus, Beirut (www.hapsitus.com)
I always felt it important to go public.
Maybe as a need to reach the world around me and exteriorize myself. Also as a necessity to address the city culturally, especially the emerging post war cities like (Beirut & others) were the financial issues are first addressed while the city’s […]

Tags: cities · communities · boundaries · geopolitics · public art · contested spaces

ATLANTE MEDITERRANEO. New City-Territory. 12/13 JUNE 2007 VENICE

June 19th, 2007 · 10 Comments

As conclusion of the Atlante Mediterraneo project, the aMAZE cultural lab in Milan together with the department of Industrial Arts & Design of the IUAV in Venice, offer a moment of reflection in collaboration with Venice International Biennial.
An experimental and multi-disciplinary debate on seven “case study” cities (Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona […]

Tags: atlas · cities · territories · communities · public art · cooperation · urban practices · contested spaces

TERRITORIAL WORKSHOPS

June 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments

by Claudia Zanfi, artistic director aMAZElab (www.amaze.it)
Atlante Mediterraneo is a collective project, designed to create a network of theoretical and artistic research among the countries that look onto the Mediterranean. An international and multi-disciplinary exchange space, a crossroads of different ideas, theoretical reflections and contemporary artistic practices. Atlante Mediterraneo has prepared a series of activities, […]

Tags: atlas · cities · territories · communities · public art · cooperation

Working as a group

May 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Report by Barcelona group, from Can Xalant, Matarò(www.canxalant.es)
coordinated by Martí Peran - Barcelona University, answering to some questions on cultural collaborations and artistic workshops:
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
To confirm that is possible to develop projects in group
To insert the art questions into the real world
To create different dynamics to the […]

Tags: territories · communities · public art · turism