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Workshops will take place over the course of two days { june
14th-15th}. Each workshop will be allotted 2-3 hours in
the afternoon of each day. All workshop outcomes will be exhibited
locally in Göteborg after the symposium at Valand Art Academy
and/or local galleries. It is also our hope to create a publication
of what takes place at Outside In including highlighting the workshop
activities. Workshop descriptions and submission details are described
below.
The workshops are as follows:
Hacking the Street
Confronting Public Territory
DIY Media Architecture
National Suicide Day
Loop City
Kids will Work it Out
* Their is no submission process for Kids will Work it Out. Please
just send a mail to margot.jacobs@tii.se or phone +46 (0)734055867.
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Please email all submissions to margot.jacobs@tii.se
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Confronting Public Territory
Grafitti and Street Art
Workshop Leaders: TELE & RUSKIG
Without permission, without reservation, anonymous individuals
and crews use city landscapes as playgrounds for their expressions.
Progressive civil disobedience and direct action challenging our
understanding of what public space is and how it can be used and
reused. Everything from calligraphic repetition to hand printed
posters and stickers, spray produced pieces, developed into logo
related reproductions, from 2-dimensional into 3-dimensional installations,
the human body is included in performance-like actions. They are
comments on the architecture, infrastructure, social environment,
political situations, lifestyle, commercials, and attitude etc.
The workshop 'Confronting public territory' has its roots in the
aerosol culture / graffiti movement, with a link to every expression
working in the same field, 'the public space.' It is a non defined
activism, with many titles and different historical relations.
Graffiti and street art share a common attitude in the act itself
- the confrontational expression, independent from state institutions
and permissions, but equipped with the ability to enter the official
stage, if the circumstances call for it. Like now!
We will take a theoretical approach to public art, using the exhibition
'Everwanting streets' as our background, and street activism in
general. We will be using the material shown at 'Everwanting streets',
supplemented with slide shows put together for this occasion.
Through teaching techniques (ie, painting and stencil making)
and discussions with the participants, we would like to inspire
and assist the group in generating and creating their own ideas
and projects for further productions in public space.
Kids will Work it Out
Workshop Leaders:
Daniel Rehn & Linda
Worbin
DAY 1 Ages 8 and under
DAY 2 Ages 8-15
Each day Daniel and Linda will work with the children to create
public artwork(s). The outcome of each workshop will be exhibited
for a day in a Göteborg public square.
**Their is no submission process for Kids will Work it Out.
Please just send a mail to margot.jacobs@tii.se or phone +46 0734055867.
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Loop
City
Public Mappings
Workshop Leaders: Sara Hodges & Dietmar
Offenhuber
This workshop will split into 2 groups. Each group will focus on
mapping the city space through different, yet complimentary means
and will present their findings to the other group.
Group 1 Sara Hodges
In this workshop, we will discuss the publicness of public space
and the role of maps in representing qualitative characteristics
of a space.
Public space, by definition, is open to all people. Many things,
however, contribute to the publicness of each space.
Physical characteristics, such as design and location affect the
physical accessiblity, while perceptions of potential users, actual
users, and owners (private or public) affect the perceived accessibility.
A space may technically be open to all, but some people may not
be or feel welcome and thus, do not use it.
On the first day of the workshop, we will visit several public spaces
in Göteborg and discuss the differences in location, quality,
physical accessibility, and perceived accessibility and how they
effect the type of users and the level of use of each space. We
will then come up with a measure of these characteristics and, on
the second day, create a map of the publicness of public spaces
in Göteborg.
Group 2 Dietmar Offenhuber
Zbig Rybczynski's short film "tango" seems to be a good
description for the general use of public space. In the film a growing
number of people inhabit a small room, continuously performing the
same repeated action, completely ignoring each other. The characters
are occupied by all sorts of activities, and are completely determined
despite the overcrowded room. The idea of this portion of the workshop
is to create maps of public space based on what people are doing
every day. People could be asked to describe a path through the
city, which they traverse on a daily basis. The resulting map is
a description of the actual activities in public space, rather than
the description of space itself.
National Suicide Day
Public Interventions
Workshop Leader: SWOON
In the spirit of San Francisco's Suicide Club, of the Cacophony
Society, the Billboard Liberation Front, the Merry Pranksters, of
Brooklyn's Madagascar Institute, of Chunk and Chengwin, and last
summer's Flash Mobs, as well as all of the work that I have done
with Toyshop, I would like to declare this day a National Suicide
Day.
Come one, come willing, come all.
National Suicide Day will be an exploration of the possibilities
buried within the city of Göteborg, exposeable only by a group
of willing adventurers. It will be a practice in harnessing the
spontaneous energy generated by collective imagination turned into
immediate action. The aim is creative urban intervention. We will
meet and collectively conceive an action, from painting the town
square pink, to climbing the bell tower for a better view of things,
or going on a mass naked shopping excursion in a fancy department
store. We will dream it an do it over the two allotted afternoons.
All present will participate.
Come with an open mind, a few good ideas and a willingness to get
your hands dirty (or completely embarrass yourself). We will be
working to change the way we understand our surroundings and ourselves
in relation to them. On this day ordinary ideas of citizenship are
null and void. On this day it is our duty to tug at and to play
with the physical and social fabric of our lives as modern urbanites.
Even a cursory perusal of world myths and written literature
will substantiate the prank as a significant, consciousness raising,
and often pivotal event in the ethical and creative development
of the individual in society
-V.Vale and A.Juno
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Hacking
the Street
Technological Interventions
Workshop Leaders:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
& Katherine
Moriwaki
Hacking the Street is a hands-on workshop that will focus on re-appropriating
objects found in the local city space. Participants will form small
groups, get a map of Gothenburg, and search for discarded objects
or "junk" (such as old electronics, furniture, outdated
computer equipment, appliances, turntables, monitors, gadgets, etc)
that they find discarded in the city. They will mark the object's
location and collect information about the local surroundings. They
will then bring the object back to the workspace and deconstruct
the object to create a simple controller (outputting to sound, network,
screen, or other devices) that other city dwellers could use in
a public setting within the city at the specified location.
The final outcome will be a city walk with workshop participants
and members of the public where each group will demo their tool/creation
at the location it was found, but within its new context. Participants
are encouraged to bring their mobile devices (such a Wi-Fi enabled
laptops or PDAs) to interface with the objects. No prior electronics
experience is necessary. The workshop leaders will supply simple
I/O boards to allow people to connect their projects to a computer
or sound module.
DIY Media Architecure
Workshop Leaders:
Adam Somlai-Fisher + Aether Architecture
Exploring the meeting point of non-designed urbanities and
the contemporary misuse of information technologies, spaces where
given constructs are re-appropriated and filled with a drastically
new meaning, where proprietary/official matter is transformed/transmitted
into public domains.
Program
We will depart with a discussion trying to create an understanding
of forces that bring about situations where DIY architecture emerges,
specifically looking into Kowloon Walled City (see links below).
We will try to collect tools and methods of such transformations.
We proceed with focusing on contemporary misuse of information technologies
both technologically and their social aspects, and see what parallels
can be drawn. We will prepare for the hands on experiment by finding
visions of how misused digital matter can change architecture, and
perhaps place such an utopia in the local urban fabric.
Hands on experiment
We will re-appropriate a number of electronic toys that are based
on Infrared connectivity (“Spin Battles Laser Gun” containing IR
sender/receiver, sound effects and light effects, accelerometer,
price: 6 euros) and create some new spatial and social situations
where architectural can be transformed by this tool. If case our
experiments allow, we can take these units out to the city, or find
a site for a more public interaction. (public transport, cafes,
etc…) We will conclude with a discussion looking at results of the
experiments, focusing on both visionary and critical aspects.
We will conclude with a discussion looking at results of the experiments,
focusing on both visionary and critical aspects.
Schedule as discussion and experiment unfolds, but planned that
initial discussion and preparation of Spin Battles Laser Guns should
be ready on day1, followed by testing on site and concluding discussion
on day2
Websites about Kowloon Walled City:1
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Open source architecture: 1
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Water cooling for processors: 1
Registration and ticket purchasing is now possible {see
here}.
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