Syndicate: Bauhaus Kolleg Event City 3. Trimester

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:24:43 +0100
Subject: Bauhaus Kolleg Event City 3. Trimester
From: Ute Lenssen <Lenssen@bauhaus-dessau.de>


Living and learning at the Bauhaus in Dessau

Applications are accepted until April 29. 2001

for

Bauhaus Kolleg II Event City
3. Trimester June 19. - September 14. 2001

Artscapes - art in practice

Culture plays a special role in the competition between cities. Cultural events 
and an architecture rich in symbols produce metropolitan signs communicated 
through the media with the intent of the global positioning of a city. 
Heterogeneous cultural materials, scripts, and images merge to form urban 
spatial nodes in the urban event spaces. Artscapes take up the short-circuit 
between global flow and local images and the way they are changed and 
exchanged. They characterize the movement between images and the mass-cultural 
context of their production and provide an indication of the changeability of 
meaning.

The Bauhaus Kolleg will make use of artistic interventions in the form of 
artscapes to document the relations of visibility in the artificial environment 
of the urban entertainment center. They will thus be operating at the interface 
between what images in the city reveal and what remains hidden behind the 
surface of the images.

The functional dominance of "popular" images and patterns of reception conveyed 
through the media raises the question prospects for artist practice in 
connection with urban development. What can be art=B9s contribution to a 
critique of visual culture, of the totality of mass media images and messages? 
How can different spatial practices of users of those spaces that express 
conflicts between the dominant enactment of the "metropolitan" and their own 
expectations be visualized and linked to the architectural and urban design 
process?

The 3. Trimester consists of an exercise phase followed by the design phase=


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