Shrinking Cities Exhibition ///
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Opening nights at CUBE, RENEW and SITE |
Admission Free
The former industrial metropolises Manchester und Liverpool are among the four regions investigated by the Shrinking Cities project. Their massive shrinking is primarily a result of deindustrialization. Since the 1960s, Manchester and Liverpool have lost about half of their populations; at the nadir of this development in the 1980s, large parts of the inner cities were empty. Even if these cities have meanwhile managed to revive their centers, many districts have not shared in these upgrading processes and still suffer high unemployment rates, loss of population, and abandonment.
The thematically three-part Shrinking Cities exhibition is now coming to Britain for the first time and will be presented in the internationally renowned exhibition house CUBE – Centre for the Urban Built Environment in Manchester, as well as in the Renew Rooms and the Site Gallery in Liverpool.
CUBE — Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester, is hosting the first part of the exhibition, Shrinking Cities: International Research, which examines the phenomenon of urban decline in Manchester/Liverpool, Detroit (USA), Halle/Leipzig (Germany), and Ivanovo (Russian Federation). Themes include a worldwide study of shrinking cities, the change in urban landscapes, everyday practices, and political conflicts under the conditions of urban decline.
At RENEW Rooms, Liverpool, a thematic focus is given to the subject of polarisation, examining the conditions in northern England and greater Detroit.
The second part of the exhibition, Shrinking Cities: Interventions, is being hosted by Site, Liverpool John Moores University’s art gallery at the Albert Dock, Liverpool, and presents models of action. The projects range from artistic interventions and self-empowerment strategies through architectural, landscape, media, and performance interventions all the way to new legal regulations and utopian visions.
Shrinking Cities: International Research
CUBE — Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester
113–115 Portland Street, Manchester
Opening hours: Monday–Friday, 12–5.30 p.m.; Saturday, 12–5.00 p.m.
www.cube.org.uk
Shrinking Cities: Polarisation
Renew Rooms, The Tea Factory
82 Wood Street, Liverpool
Opening hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
www.renew.co.uk/renewrooms
Shrinking Cities: Interventions
Site
Albert Dock, Britannia Pavilion, Liverpool
Opening hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
www.ljmu.ac.uk/site/
Exhibition opening Cube, Manchester
Friday Nov 16, 6-9 p.m.
Exhibition openings Liverpool
Saturday Nov 17
RENEW Rooms, 4 p.m., Site Art Gallery 6 p.m.
Side programme in January 2008 /// January 12, 2008, 6–8 p.m.
Independent Film at the Dock
Site Art Gallery
Curated by Sam Pepper
To celebrate the launch of the capital of culture, The Albert Dock Company presents a series of short films originating from Liverpool at Sites Biennial Cinema. In partnership with local creative agencies Sam Pepper curates a collection of short films produced by Merseyside’s independent film makers.
January 16, 2008, 6-8 p.m.
Sonic Graffiti
RENEW Rooms, Liverpool
Concept by: Peter Appleton (Reader in Creative Technology, JMU School of Art and Design).
The mobile phone will be used as a recording tool – for sounds or comment about the city. Invitations will be made to contribute through our answering system to a repository of voices and urban noise. Within a spatial sound installation these sounds will be randomly distributed forming an immersive and updating narrative and ambient urban backdrop. This archive will then be made available as a digital resource.
January 18, 2008, 7-10 p.m.
“L8ter” film screening
OUTPOST Dingle, Park Street, Liverpool
4 documentaries produced by Toxteth TV. More info: www.out-post.info, www.toxteth.tv
January 19-24, 2008
Shrinking Cities Film
Screenings at Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
While the subject of shrinking cities was tabooed for many years in the fields dealing with urban development, since 1945 it has been treated in a variety of ways on film. Since 1990, shrinking cities have been the distinctive framework of the plots in the new German films set in eastern Germany. A selection of new German films will be shown at the Picturehouse at FACT in Liverpool. www.picturehouses.co.uk. With the kind support of the Goethe Institute, Manchester.
Programme:
Sat, Jan 19, 2008, 12.30 p.m.
Lichter
Director Hans-Christian Schmid, colour, 105 min., 2003
Sat, Jan 19, 2008, 2.30 p.m.
Halbe Treppe/ Grill Point
Director Andreas Dresen, colour, 107 min., 2001
Sun, Jan 20, 2008, 12.30 p.m.
Vergiss Amerika
Director Vanessa Jopp, colour, 90 min., 2000
Sun, Jan 20, 2008, 2.30 p.m.
Neben der Zeit/ Outside Time
Director Andreas Kleinert, colour, 107 min, 1995
Thurs, Jan 24, 2008, 6.30 p.m.
Neustadt (Stau – der Stand der Dinge)/ Neustadt Jammed - the Status Quo Director Thomas Heise, colour, 90 min., 2000
January 22, 2008, 6-8 p-m.
Creating Images
RENEW Rooms
Film screenings presenting strategies for action by image production through architecture, art and music: Post Barnsley by squint opera, Alsop Architects; Come Unto Me – The faces of Tyree Guyton by Nicole Cattell; The Sound of Two Cities by Elliot Eastwick
January, 23, 2008, 6-8 p.m.
Urban regeneration policies
RENEW Rooms, Liverpool
Discussion with Anna Minton (Moderation), Matthias Bernt (Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig), Anne Power (London School of Economics), Michael Simon (City of Liverpool, Community Development), David Rudlin (URBED)
The participants will discuss the concepts of urban regeneration policies in Germany and Great Britain - Stadtumbau Ost, Socially Integrative City versus pathfinder, urban task force, etc. - subject the efforts made and successes achieved by Manchester and Liverpool with respect to urban regeneration to critique, and will pose the legitimate question as to its social compatibility. With the kind support of the Goethe Institute, Manchester.
January 24, 2008, 2-3 p.m.
FACT broadcast: Change & The City
Site Art Gallery, Liverpool
tenantspin will be continuing its exploration of urban regeneration schemes against the backdrop of the International touring exhibition Shrinking Cities. North Liverpool is currently home to Europe's largest regeneration site while the City Centre changes with every passing month as capital developments and consumer led regeneration schemes begin to shape a new future for the city. We invite you to join the discussion with our panel of experts ranging for Urban planners to regeneration officials and community members.