Gespräch zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum: Artists reclaiming the city Event

Conference Vienna
The artist as activist in public space: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine

Donnerstag, 30 10 2014, 14.30H - 19.00H
Freitag, 31 10 2014, 10.30H - 21.00H

Konzept und Organisation:
Ina Ivanceanu, Heidi Dumreicher/Oikodrom, Natasa Bodrozic, Nini Palavandishvili, Kateryna

Vorträge und Gespräche in englischer Sprache

SPACES is a project for artistic and cultural action in public space in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and is the starting point for this conference. By choosing the arena of public space, the artists participating in SPACES explore their role as initiators of civic and cultural emancipation in encounters with fellow residents in their cities. What is the transformative potential of art in public space in an Eastern Central European context? In Vienna, the SPACES curators, artists and activists will present and discuss their contributions toward understanding, defining and recreating public space.

PROGRAMM

31 10 2014
ARTISTS RECLAIMING THE CITY
10.30-13.30H The artist as citizen – all art as a political act?
Alevtina Kakhidze, Kuratorin und Künstlerin, NN / Torange Khonsari, Public Works, London /
Anton Lederer, Rotor Graz / Richard S. Levine, Stadtplaner, Centre for Sustainable Cities, NN /
Sabine Knierbein, SKuOR, Wien

14.30-19.00H Blurring borders – exclusive club or transcultural exchange?
On participatory art production, its present and future.
Olga Shparaga, Kritikerin und Theoretikerin, Belarus / Vitalie Sprinceanu, Forscher, Modavien / Therese Kaufmann, ICPCP, Wien / Stephanie Winter, Künstlerin, Wien / Angela Ramirez, Künstlerin, NN

19.00H SPACES Katalog und Broschüre