CITIES - Spaces for art, politics, living...

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Programme of events

An increasing proportion of the world's population resides within
cities. Thus Neil Brenner and others are already speaking of planetary
urbanisation, on earth, underground and in space. Practically all life
on earth is in some way geared to provisioning constantly expanding
cities. At the same time, in recent years we have observed how social
and political movements arise and find expression in cities. Their
striking feature is that the boundaries between art, politics and
activism become increasingly blurred.

Today, art in public space is evidently either an instrument of
city-marketing, or situated somewhere between the Right to the City
movements and diverse activistic, urbanistic, political projects of
appropriation.

In a series of four lectures and discussions the following questions
will be approached. What constitutes a city today? How does it function
(or not)? How do social developments take shape in a city? What role is
played here by artists, urban planners, architects, etc.? How can we
bridge the gap between the local situation in Salzburg Old Town, a
UNESCO World Heritage Site, with its shopping streets and cultural
venues, and global developments?


LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS

23 July 2014 8 p.m. Stadtgalerie Lehen
Urban researcher FELIX WIEGAND talks about urban developments between
global neoliberalisation, economic crisis and social protest. The
lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with ELSA PROCHAZKA,
ROMAN HÖLLBACHER, SARAH UNTNER and FELIX WIEGAND.

13 August 2014 8 p.m. Stadtgalerie Lehen
Curator CHRISTOPH DOSWALD presents and discusses significant projects,
competitions and exhibition formats created by the urban working group
for art in public spaces (AG KiöR) in Zurich. Comment by cinéma copains
– ARNE HECTOR / MINZE TUMMESCHEIT.

21 August 2014 8 p.m. Stadtgalerie Lehen
Writer and critic JENNIFER ALLEN examines what happens with art in
public space when there is no separation between the public and the
private domain. TOBIAS ZIELONY comments.

26 August 2014 8 p.m. Stadtgalerie Lehen
TON MATTON, who works in the field of object design, ecological urban
planning and artistic activism, talks about performative urban planning,
taking the example of “Great Potyomkin Street”, 2012. CHARLOTTE CULLINAN
replies.

Language: English or German with simultaneous translation.
Location: Inge-Morath-Platz 31, 5020 Salzburg

Further information
http://www.summeracademy.at/Lectures-and-discussions_234.html


FILM / VIDEO PROGRAMME
Curated by RAINER BELLENBAUM in co-operation with DAS KINO, Salzburg.
Further information
http://www.summeracademy.at/Filmvideo-programme_324.html

EXPLORING SALZBURG – WALKS IN THE CITY
Further information
http://www.summeracademy.at/Exploring-Salzburg-%E2%80%93-Walks-in-the-city_240.html


See the whole programm of events here
http://www.summeracademy.at/events

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