Awarded Projects 3 ///

Cow The Udder Way (Manchester/Liverpool) /// Comment of the jury: "Cow the Udder Way is an artistic-performance project which gives insights into the mental and psychological constitution of inner-city suburbia. A herd of cows is brought into the center of Liverpool for two weeks and, in addition, various (in part participatory) actions connected to the animals take place. These actions, and the reactions of passers-by and the local media to them, are to be videotaped.

The theme of this entry is the symbolic self-preserving and self-supplying system: the cow grazing on unused urban land as a supplier of different (and unusual) products, e.g. manure as a source of energy, urine as a cosmetic product, methane gas for burning, etc. Using an agro-urban bottom-up-method, the possibilities of an urban rethinking are visualized, in which the shrinking city is viewed as a new area for production and the public is invited to a discussion of alternative planning methods.

The jury liked the provocative character of the entry. The project's potential for stimulating a cultural discussion about the transformation and the reprogramming of urban areas is especially convincing."







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