Shrinking Cities Exhibitions in New York ///
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December 8, 2006 - January 21, 2007
Opening Reception: 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Thursday, December 7
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10010
212.924.7000
Shrinking Cities, Interventions
December 8, 2006 - February 17, 2007
Opening Reception: 6:30 - 8:30 PM, Thursday, December 7
Gallery: Monday - Friday, 10 AM - 6 PM
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
212.647.7778
With a combined exhibition space of 4,000 square feet, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and Van Alen Institute will simultaneously host "Shrinking Cities" in New York. The exhibition includes 32 contributions by artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, and researchers including Nikolaus Brade, Sergei Bratkov, Mitch Cope, John Davies, interboro/CUP, Cedric Price, Bas Princen, Isa Rosenberger, Christoph Schäfer, O.M. Ungers, and Ingo Vetter.
Van Alen Institute will host part one of the exhibition, "Shrinking Cities, International Research", which examines the phenomenon of urban decline. The four focus cities are explored and represented in diverse forms of documentation by artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, and researchers. Themes include a worldwide study of shrinking cities, the change of urban landscapes, everyday practices, and political conflicts under the conditions of urban decline.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will host part two of the exhibition, "Shrinking Cities, Interventions", which presents strategies for action. It is divided into five areas: Negotiating Inequality, Self-Governance, Creating Images, Organizing Retreat, and Occupying Space. Commissioned projects range from artisticinterventions and self-empowerment strategies through architectural, landscape, media and performance interventions, to new legal regulations and utopian visions.
A joint reception on December 7 will launch the exhibition. The public is invited to attend both openings that are within walking distance of one another. Van Alen Institute will be open from 5:30-7:30 PM and Pratt Manhattan Gallery will be open from 6:30-8:30 PM.
Chief curator: Philipp Oswalt; Co-curator for the follow-up-show in New York City: William Menking, Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute; Assistant Curator: Anke Hagemann.
A press preview will take place on December 7 from 1-3 PM at Pratt Manhattan Gallery with remarks by curator Philipp Oswalt, at 1:30 PM.
Press Releases to the Shrinking Cities Exhibitions in NY
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Teams /// INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH: GERMANY /// Nikolaus Brade, Laura Horelli, Konrad Knebel, Ines Lasch, Project Office Philipp Oswalt (Anke Hagemann, Tim Rieniets, et al.), Albrecht Schäfer, Christoph Schäfer, Kathrin Wildner, NETHERLANDS /// Bas Princen, RUSSIA /// Sergei Bratkov, Alexei Kononenko, Savva and Sergei Miturich, Vera Samorodova, Alexander Sverdlov, Boris Spiridonov, UNITED STATES /// Robert Anderson, Mitch Cope, Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), Jody Huellmantel, Toni Moceri, Kelly Parker, UNITED KINGDOM /// John Davies, Jeremy Deller.
INTERVENTIONS: AUSTRIA /// fiedler.tornquist, Isa Rosenberger, FRANCE /// Pierre Huyghe, GERMANY /// complizen Planungsbüro, Markus Bader and Jan Liesegang (raumlabor_berlin) with Anne-Claire Deville, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Ingo Vetter, GE RMANY/NETHERLANDS /// Project group Claiming Land (Stefanie Bremer, Dirk E. Haas, Päivi Kataikko, Henrik Sander, Andreas Schulze Bäing, Boris Sieverts) with Bas Princen, NETHERLANDS /// OMA/AMO, UNITED STATES /// Center for Urban Pedagogy (Damon Rich, Rosten Woo) and Interboro (Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore, Christine Williams), Tammy Lynn Evans, Tyree Guyton, UNITED KINGDOM /// Project group COW-the udder way (Gareth Morris, Heidi Rustgaard, Eike Sindlinger, Ulrike Steven, Susanne Thomas), Cedric Price.
Series of public talks / filmscreenings /// Friday, December, 8, 6:30 PM, film Occupying Space: Experimental Projects in (East) Germany
Two films show innovative activities in shrinking urban environments: Daniel Kunle, Holger Lauinger: "no more | not yet", Germany 2004, 82 min; introduction by Daniel Kunle; complizen, Connie Klar: "Sportification", Germany 2003, 3 min
Philipp Oswalt and Anke Hagemann will be present for Q&A
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212.683.0023 www.aiany.org/centerforarchitecture
Saturday, December 9, 3:00 PM, conference
Shrinking Cities: Negotiating Inequality
Shrinking Cities are no singular or exceptional phenomenon, they are just the other, less noticed, side of growth and concentration - the "losers of globalisation". Processes that can be witnessed in booming New York stand in direct relation to population loss and economic decline in other regions.
Growth means that shrinkage is happening elsewhere: From the global to the local scale, growth and shrinking always make a joint appearance - sociospatial polarisation processes and the competition between places are increasing within cities, regions and beyond. Hence, shrinking cities will become an ever more present phenomenon that we have to deal with.
Speakers will include Phillip Oswalt, curator; Johannes Fiedler, contributor; Damon Rich, RostenWoo, Center for Urban Pedagogy, contributors; and Neil Smith, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY; Peter Marcuse, Columbia University, New York
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212.683.0023 www.aiany.org/centerforarchitecture
Friday, January 5, 6:30 PM, film
Self Governance: Urban Agriculture
Two films on the phenomenon of farming and gardening in shrinking cities - for subsistence and as a means of social engagement:
Boris Gerrets: "Garden Stories", 51 min, english/russian with english subtitles; documentary on urban farming in the US and Russia [tbc]
Annette Weisser and Ingo Vetter: "I Am Farming Humanity", 2001, 16 min; an interview with Lee Burns, retired engineer an co-founder of the Detroit Agriculture Network
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212.683.0023 www.aiany.org/centerforarchitecture
Friday, January, 12, 6:30 PM, film
Creating Images: Music Culture
Elliot Eastwick: "The Sound of Two Cities", GB 2004 [tbc]
How did the sounds from Motor City Detroit influence Manchester's music scene? The label-maker and DJ Elliot Eastwick from Manchester reveals direct connections between the music cultures of two shrinking cities.
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, New York 10012
Tel: 212.683.0023 www.aiany.org/centerforarchitecture
Tuesday, January 16, 6:30-7:30 PM, in conversation
The Bronx: Shrinking?
Adolfo Carrion, Jr., Bronx Borough President; Michael Sorkin, Director, the Graduate Urban Design Program, City College of New York and Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio.
Van Alen Institute, 30 W. 22nd Street, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10010
Tel: 212.924.7000 www.vanalen.org
Tuesday, January 30, 6:00 PM, symposium
Is New Orleans a Shrinking City?
A Confrontation between Ecology and Politics.
Panelists will include: Phillip Oswalt, curator, Shrinking Cities; James Dart, special lecturer, School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Deborah Gans, professor, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute; and Frederic Schwartz, Frederic Schwartz Architects.
Pratt Manhattan, Room 213, 144 West 14th Street, room 213, New York, New York 10011, Tel: 212.647.7778 www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
Center for Architecture admission: $10 members, $15 non-members. All other venues are free and open to the public.