Invitation to "Spirited Caravans: re-imagining Bangalore’s outdoors" from 12-20 July 09
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prayas
Jul 7, 2009, 10:24:14 PM7/7/09
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>> "Spirited Caravans: re-imagining Bangalore’s outdoors" from 12-20 July 09
>> Dates: From 2:30 to 7:30 p.m., 12th to 20th July, 2009. The public opening of the exhibition is on the 12th of July at 4:00 p.m.
As unknown, invisible people, is it possible for us to imagine the
city in a way, which is less alienating and fragmented? The exhibition
looks at the role mobile spaces can play in doing this.
A showcase of design proposals for a mobile cultural space sent by
artists and architects form around the world in response to an
invitation extended by CitySpinning in January 2009. This process was
initiated to understand some ways of using the existing infrastructure
in the city in parasitic and symbiotic ways for a decentralized
cultural program which is in the midst of where people live, work and
play. As part of this process a mobile cultural space called the DOT
is being designed.
Spirited Caravans is curated by Prayas Abhinav at CitySpinning [http://
cityspinning.org] and designed by Meeta Jain from MapBee [http://
mapbee.tumblr.com]. Supported by Qessencedesigns and Openspace India.
A preview of the exhibition will be on view for the participants of
the mobility and culture think tank too (http://cityspinning.org/
2009/06/29/the-mobility-culture-think-tank-09-protospace-bangalore/).
>> Concept: Does the city move or do we move around in the city? Maybe, its both. Our cities have become spaces which exude an impersonal, dry and functional energy. To feel at home here, we try to own a patch here and there to hide away, to console ourselves.
This glass, concrete and trash city in the process of becoming, has
amassed an infrastructure, a grid which thinks its going to be there
forever. Building possibilities which parasitically draws on this to
create pockets of parallel realities, has been an interest shared by
many people and groups throughout history (gypsies, street performers,
circuses, melas). This exhibition proposes some ways of creating these
parallel realities. These ways acknowledge the histories of this
process but still position them in the world as it as now, with us
being the way we are.
The exhibition has fantasies, fictions and journalistic accounts of
seeing the city grow out of its indifference and comfortably wear her
neighbourhoods as if they were something specific, the people living
there having real names, motivations, dreams and aspirations which can
be mapped.Spirited Caravans sees the city in a mood which is
celebratory, uninhibited, musical and new (but old at the same time).
It is a good chance for cynics of all descriptions to forever lose
their cynicism within clouds of possibility. It will give all of us
ideas and energy to act upon them as well as maybe unshackle our
imaginations from the city map, which reduces everything to a line and
dot to actually be one of the dots and change the map forever in our
memory.
Visitors to the exhibition will be able to comment on aspects of the
proposals, annotate in the margin, doodle on the side to guide and
contribute to our design process.
>> Spirited Caravans features design proposals by:
Amrita Ravimohan & Ekta Idnany [Mumbai, India],
Azeer Attari & Dominic Anthony [Mumbai, India],
Benoît Maubrey [Brück, Germany],
Elina Moreau Braunstein [Sydney,Australia],
Harry Westbrook & Nash Colundular [London, UK],
Heron-Mazy Studio (J.P. Maruszczak & Roger Connah Asst: Ryan Manning)
[USA],
Jelena Grujic and Lea Skrinjar [Novi Sad & Belgrade, Serbia],
Jimini Hignett [Amsterdam, The Netherlands],
Joao Caria Lopes [Lisbon, Portugal],
Joseph Choma [New York, USA],
Miguel Valério [Amsterdam, The Netherlands],
Nick Tobier (EverydayPlaces) [Detroit & Ann Arbor, USA],
Petar Bojovic & Slobodan Krsmanovic [Belgrade, Serbia],
Shyamanta Shekhar, Harshavardhan, Srinivas, Sujay Kuncham,
Vishnuvardhan [India],
Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer [Illinois, USA]
>> Where?
Protospace Bangalore
No. 6 MR Garden, 2nd cross KEB Layout,
Sanjay Nagar,
Bangalore 560094
URL: http://protost.ation.in
>> Google Map: http://is.gd/1nRvs
>> Dates: From 2:30 to 7:30 p.m., 12th to 20th July, 2009. The public opening of the exhibition is on the 12th of July at 4:00 p.m.
As unknown, invisible people, is it possible for us to imagine the
city in a way, which is less alienating and fragmented? The exhibition
looks at the role mobile spaces can play in doing this.
A showcase of design proposals for a mobile cultural space sent by
artists and architects form around the world in response to an
invitation extended by CitySpinning in January 2009. This process was
initiated to understand some ways of using the existing infrastructure
in the city in parasitic and symbiotic ways for a decentralized
cultural program which is in the midst of where people live, work and
play. As part of this process a mobile cultural space called the DOT
is being designed.
Spirited Caravans is curated by Prayas Abhinav at CitySpinning [http://
cityspinning.org] and designed by Meeta Jain from MapBee [http://
mapbee.tumblr.com]. Supported by Qessencedesigns and Openspace India.
A preview of the exhibition will be on view for the participants of
the mobility and culture think tank too (http://cityspinning.org/
2009/06/29/the-mobility-culture-think-tank-09-protospace-bangalore/).
>> Concept: Does the city move or do we move around in the city? Maybe, its both. Our cities have become spaces which exude an impersonal, dry and functional energy. To feel at home here, we try to own a patch here and there to hide away, to console ourselves.
This glass, concrete and trash city in the process of becoming, has
amassed an infrastructure, a grid which thinks its going to be there
forever. Building possibilities which parasitically draws on this to
create pockets of parallel realities, has been an interest shared by
many people and groups throughout history (gypsies, street performers,
circuses, melas). This exhibition proposes some ways of creating these
parallel realities. These ways acknowledge the histories of this
process but still position them in the world as it as now, with us
being the way we are.
The exhibition has fantasies, fictions and journalistic accounts of
seeing the city grow out of its indifference and comfortably wear her
neighbourhoods as if they were something specific, the people living
there having real names, motivations, dreams and aspirations which can
be mapped.Spirited Caravans sees the city in a mood which is
celebratory, uninhibited, musical and new (but old at the same time).
It is a good chance for cynics of all descriptions to forever lose
their cynicism within clouds of possibility. It will give all of us
ideas and energy to act upon them as well as maybe unshackle our
imaginations from the city map, which reduces everything to a line and
dot to actually be one of the dots and change the map forever in our
memory.
Visitors to the exhibition will be able to comment on aspects of the
proposals, annotate in the margin, doodle on the side to guide and
contribute to our design process.
>> Spirited Caravans features design proposals by:
Amrita Ravimohan & Ekta Idnany [Mumbai, India],
Azeer Attari & Dominic Anthony [Mumbai, India],
Benoît Maubrey [Brück, Germany],
Elina Moreau Braunstein [Sydney,Australia],
Harry Westbrook & Nash Colundular [London, UK],
Heron-Mazy Studio (J.P. Maruszczak & Roger Connah Asst: Ryan Manning)
[USA],
Jelena Grujic and Lea Skrinjar [Novi Sad & Belgrade, Serbia],
Jimini Hignett [Amsterdam, The Netherlands],
Joao Caria Lopes [Lisbon, Portugal],
Joseph Choma [New York, USA],
Miguel Valério [Amsterdam, The Netherlands],
Nick Tobier (EverydayPlaces) [Detroit & Ann Arbor, USA],
Petar Bojovic & Slobodan Krsmanovic [Belgrade, Serbia],
Shyamanta Shekhar, Harshavardhan, Srinivas, Sujay Kuncham,
Vishnuvardhan [India],
Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer [Illinois, USA]
>> Where?
Protospace Bangalore
No. 6 MR Garden, 2nd cross KEB Layout,
Sanjay Nagar,
Bangalore 560094
URL: http://protost.ation.in
>> Google Map: http://is.gd/1nRvs
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