Conference

CHANGING HABITATS
ART EXPERIENCE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

May 25 - 26, 2005

CHANGING HABITATS, INVENTING COMMUNITIES, BUILDING CITIES: ART GOES
PROFESSIONAL

Wednesday, May 25

10:00 Introduction

10:15 Lesley Woodbridge and Robert Breen
Directors of Art in Partnership, Edinburgh
"Friends of Fish, Merchant and Oliphant.
A New Life for a Sixteenth Century Merchant¹s House Garden in Scotland."

11:00 Jadwiga Charzynska Director of LAZNIA,
Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
"Outdoor Gallery of Gdansk City. The way to change the image of the
district."

11:40 Monika Balint Member of Hints Institute, Budapest "Dropping Hints.
Introduction of the art group Hints."

12:20 Discussion

Break

14:00 Mariette Dölle Coordinator of "Beyond", Municipality of Utrecht
"The superlocality of Beyond Leidsche Rijn."

14:40 Solvita Krese Director of LCCA,
Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga
"Dialogue building or transformation of public."

15:20 Markus Ambach and Andrea Knobloch
Artists and Curators of stadtraum.org, Düsseldorf
"stadtraum.org - synergies between art und city."

16:00 Discussion

Thursday, May 26

10:00 Jose Lebrero Stals Director of CAAC,
Center for Contemporary Art, Sevilla

10:40 Horst Griese Curator "Changing Habitats",
GAK Bremen "How art inhabits the city. Some views on basic needs."

11:20 Peter Herbstreuth art critic, Berlin
"Getting Contemporaneous. Form and Functions in Art Related Public
Projects."

12:00 Final discussion

All contributions to the conference in English
A publication will appear in summer 2005

Free admission
Registration: officegak-bremen.de
Tel. 0049 (0)421 500896, Fax 0049 (0)421 593337

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Exhibition April 22 - May 29, 2005

BIK / VAN DER POL, TRACY MACKENNA AND EDWIN JANSSEN, RUPPRECHT MATTHIES,
LARS MIKKELSEN, N55, SANDER / CLAASSEN-SCHMAL, APOLONIJA SUSTERSIC

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