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Project-Description: English Connecting urban places About: The project develops an urban-art-manifestation by artists which include different cities in different countires: Sao Paulo, Köhn, Copenhagen. A network production, based on street art. These four cities, or spots, will be interconnected by the exchange of pictures and sounds, taken from the respective cities. Each spot will receive three different pictures, plus his own, which should be printed and glued to the city walls. Thereafter, each artist should again take pictures of the pictures – now applied to the walls - and send these to the other spots. Instead of pictures, sound could be used as well: a soundscape, recorded at one spot, playback through loudspeaker at another spot, which will be recorded again (so both soundscapes get mixed). We will do a hotsite about the project with the documentation and conceptual texts to let other people get in touch with the pieces. Each artist is dedicated to: Take the city’s pictures Put the pictures up in urban space Take the second picture of the pictures on the walls Upload the pictures to the hotsite Translate the texts and hotsite informations in his own language. Project-Description: German Urbane Räume verbinden Beschreibung: Entwickelt wird einer Manifestation urbaner Kunst als Zusammenwirken von Künstlern in vier verschiedenen Städten: Sao Paulo, Köln und Kopenhagen. Die Arbeit ist eine Netzwerk-Produktion, ausgehend von Straßenkunst. Diese vier Städte, oder Flecke, werden über Bilder verbunden, die in den jeweiligen Städten gemacht wurden. Jeder Fleck wird drei verschiedene Bilder empfangen, plus sein eigenes, macht also vier Bilder, die ausgedruckt und an die Wände der Stadt geklebt werden sollen. Danach macht jeder Künstler wieder Bilder von den den Bildern - nun an den Wänden - und sendet sie wieder zu den anderen Künstlern. Um andere Leute teilhaben zu lassen, werden wir eine hotsite über das Projekt mit der Dokumentation und konzeptuellen Texten machen. Jeder Künstler sollte folgendes tun: Die Bilder der Stadt machen Die Bilder im urbanen Raum platzieren Das zweite Bild der Bilder an den Wänden machen Die Bilder per eMail verschicken Die Texte und Hotsite-Informationen in seine Sprache übersetzen Project-Description: Denmark At forbinde urbane steder. Om: Projektet sigter mod at udvikle en urban-kunst-mainfestation gennem detagelse af kunstnere fra forskellige storbyer: Sao Paulo, Køln and København. Værket er en netværks produktion baseret på Street Art. De fire storbyer, eller punkter, vil blive forbundne gennem udveksling af billeder, taget I de respective byer. Hver punkt vil således modtage tre forskellige billeder, plus sit eget, altså fire billeder i alt som skal printes og hænges op på de respective byers vægge. Derefter skal kunstnerne endnu engang tage billder – af billderne på væggene - og igen sende disse til de andre punkter. Kunstnernes opgaver: Vi vil lave et hot-site om projektet indeholdende dokumentationen og de konceptuelle tekster således at andre også kan være I kontakt med værket. Hver kunstner skal dedikere sig til: At tage byens billeder Hænge dem op I byrummet Tage nye billeder af de ophængte billeder Sende billederne pr email Oversætte teksterne og anden information på host-sitet til sit eget sprog

Project History (project's origin) Connecting Urban Spaces Media art exhibition / collaborative production. Presentation: The project ‘connecting urban spaces’ was first exhibited in Brazil in 2007 as an online-based art production. The project generates a show created collaboratively between five artists from different cities in different countries. The artists created a ‘virtual office’ where in they investigated, discuss and develop multimedia art pieces about cityscapes and urban environments to produce a physical show. With the idea to connect and research these urban spaces in a nomadic perspective the artists was working - virtually - during four months, using digital technologies such as photography/video/sound, to document their environments and to produce the artworks (São Paulo - Brazil, Paris - France, Copenhagen - Denmark and Cologne – German). Virtual office_2007: www.tateandocidades.multiply.com After this time, with the support of Emma Thomas gallery (São Paulo-Brazil), I produced an exhibition in the gallery space where these documents was part of the art pieces displayed in the show. At the same time, other artists with other works related to the city environment were invited for the show, adding to the project complementary mediums such as painting, postal art, stickers and installation. Parallel to the exhibition a virtual gallery was created to serve as a democratic environment for artists to submit their work about the project theme. Virtual gallery_2007: www.connectingurbanspaces.blogspot.com To see the openning exhibition at EmmaThomas, get a look at: http://tateandocidades.multiply.com/photos/album/37 Connecting Urban Spaces_2008 project-proposal (by Adriano Casanova) Contact: [email protected] / www.adrianocasanova.com / mobile: +44- 7890026867   Presentation: This year, in collaboration with the artists-run organization based in Berlin, Germany, WOOLOO (www.wooloo.org) the project connecting urban spaces will continue. Using the same methodology, other artists will be invited to produce - in a virtual environment - a show for the physical space, presenting their own projects and allowing all visitors to view this online work production in the process. The artworks produced - during four months - in the virtual office will generate an investigation about nomadism, urban geography, citizens and community related to the artists’ cities. Each artist will create a single project to be part of the physical exhibition, displaying in the gallery the documents from the projects’ process and allowing other artist to integrate or appropriate their pieces in the informal ‘virtual collaboration’. How the collaboration happens? - Each artist will receive a login and password from a ‘multiply website’ where every week they will publish their projects process (as a multimedia document using video, photography, text, sound or web links). - The website will also contain the section ‘blog’, where every week a theme will be given. The theme will be discussed together to develop a critical review about the project. -The artists in the virtual office will be allowed to appropriate or incorporate other artists projects’ documents into their own, connecting their themes throw this medium. - In the end of the virtual office the artist-mediator(1) will select - with each artist - a series of documents to be part of the exhibition in the physical gallery. The project is a constant collaboration between artists/curators/galleries and institutions. During the production we will also be looking for other collaborators to join the project with the intent to integrate other exhibitions/projects in other cities, connecting – literally – these urban spaces. Virtual gallery: During the virtual office a small group of artists will present in a virtual exhibition works related to the project’ issue. At the same time a ‘parallel virtual gallery’ (blog) will be create for artists from the wooloo.org database submit their work. Timetable: July Beginning of Virtual office: Project production Beginning of Virtual Gallery August Virtual office: Project production Beginning of the parallel virtual gallery: Submission of works for the artists from wooloo.org September Virtual office: Project production Parallel virtual gallery: Submission of works for the artists from wooloo.org October Virtual office: Selection of the documents from the project process to display in the show Parallel virtual gallery: Submission of works for the artists from wooloo.org November Physical Show Parallel virtual gallery: Submission of works for the artists from wooloo.org (1) ‘Artist-mediator’ (curator), the artist that assist social relations to create a networks where the environment is base by the production of art. "Rather than being the sole 'creator' of a work of art, the artist often plays the role of a mediator or facilitator for audiences' interaction with and contribution to the artwork" (PAUL, Christiane. "Digital Art". 2003. Thames and Hudson Ltd, London. p21/22)