Impex workshop in Budapest
Impex – Contemporary Art Provider announces a call for participation in
the Inbetween Zone workshop.
Challenged by the ongoing rapid and substantial transformation of urban environment, IMPEX aims to
act as a platform for the critical analysis of urban development, social discourse and collaboration
in art and cultural practices.
Therefore, with its own location as a starting point, and at the same time encompassing a wider
general discourse on the role of cultural potentials in urban development, IMPEX initiates a
long-term interdisciplinary research project. This long-term project will include workshops,
exhibitions, public interventions, publications and other alternative methods of collecting,
generating and organizing ideas and knowledge.
The first stage of the project is the workshop entitled Inbetween Zone, which will take place from
16 to 23 June 2007, simultaneously with the 7th Biennial of European Towns and Town Planners.
(http://www.makingplaces.hu)
The ‘Corvin Promenade’ project covers an area larger than 80,700 m2 in a zone of the VIII. district
adjacent to the downtown (http://www.corvinsetany.hu), presently undergoing complete urban and
architectural reconstruction. Meanwhile, development projects of a different scale, but similar
impact as regards urban restructuring, are under way in two neighboring districts (VII, IX). This
continuous zone, reaching over districts, will be the ground of the workshop.
Themes of the Workshop are:
1. Public art and urban planning
2. Techniques of collective and individual intervention: how inhabitants can use and form their own
living-space
3. Grassroots: creative, grassroots initiations vs. urban planning
4. Limits to planning: limitations of urban planning projects
5. Mistake assessment: analysis and planning of errors in city development projects.
6. Urban policy and identity formation: urban legends – local heroes
Workshop structure:
Throughout a one-week workshop 30 selected participants will work out the above listed topics in 5
different groups (approx. 6 people/group), with the guidance of tutors. Methods and approaches will
be developed collectively within the group. The results of the workshop will be introduced in the
form of an exhibition and a public presentation in Impex.
The official language of the workshop is English.
What do we provide?
Maximum 100 EUR traveling cost for the participants, accommodation and production costs of the
workshop.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge.
Whom do we expect?
Hungarian and foreign applicants who are engaged in the fields of culture, commerce, media or social
sciences (artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, cultural managers, philosophers, filmmakers,
anthropologists, designers, economists, managers, communication experts, etc.).
The application has to include:
CV and attached documentation of relevant professional practices in English or Hungarian. We accept
applications via email, not larger than 1 MB, to the following address: urbancreativity@gmail.com
Deadline for applications: 14 May 2007
The workshop is realized through the collaboration of IMPEX – Contemporary Art Provider and FKSE –
Studio of Young Artists Association.
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IMPEX – Contemporary Art Provider is a new art scene in the 8th district of Budapest. The venue,
which consists of a gallery, a workshop room and an office, presents experimentally minded and
progressive artwork. It also accommodates studio practices, lectures and creative, interdisciplinary
initiatives. Its objective is to aid cooperation and permeability between different areas of art,
and, through its open and receptive structure, create a living connection with various social groups
and civilian initiatives.
Due to a mutually beneficial cooperation between a bar (club) and a non-profit cultural institution,
IMPEX is presently found in the building of West Balkan (http://www.west-balkan.com). – one of the
last, temporarily standing houses in a large territory going through complete architectural and
urban metamorphosis.
Organizers of the workshop: Tamás Kaszás (artist), Katarina Sevic (artist), Rita Kálman (art
historian, independent curator), Sophie Dodelin (artist)
Further information: contact@impex-info.org
www.impex-info.org
posted by sandor
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:13:00 GMT
