ARTS EXCHANGE
1. Urban Imaginary Series (UIS)
UIS is an international project series on alternative cultural and arts strategies to our prevalent urban conditions. It is an advocacy to enhance the interdisciplinary discourse and practice of arts, architecture and cultural policy through exhibitions, urban interventions, web projects and publications.
UIS1: Cultural Exchange between Vienna and Hong Kong (2008–09)
Theme: Cities of Desire - on Place-Making and Identity Politics
Cities of Desire: Vienna -Hong Kong takes the form of an interdisciplinary arts exchange between the two cities. The project deals with the critique of image representation and place production in city regions and advocates alternative art practices for place-making.
> curatorial statement
Programme in Vienna 2008:
> Exhibition
Cities of Desire: Vienna <-> Hong Kong
Venue: Galerie IG Bildende Kunst
Date: 26 Sept - 31 Oct 2008
performance by Anthony Po-Shan Leung (Hong Kong)
Participating Artists & Architects:
Vienna: Andreas Fogarasi, feld72, Giannotti&Giuriati, Martin Krenn
Hong Kong: Cedric Maridet, Ducky Tse, Times Square Acts (banky, Hector Rodriguez & Vasco Paiva, Lu Chow), Urban Void Group (Dang Qun, Han Yan, Jiang Jun, Laurence Liauw, Li Hu, Liang Jing Yu, Ma Yan Song, Urbanus, Zhang Ke)
> Roundtable Discussion
Place-Making Politics: Cultural Flagships, Public Art or Interventions?
Date: 26 Sept 08, 17:00
Venue: depot — Kunst & Diskussion
Speakers: feld72 (Vienna), Howard Chan (Hong Kong), Jim Segers (London/Brussels), Po-Shan Leung (Hong Kong), Ricky Renier (Vienna), Vitus Weh (Vienna)
moderated by Elke Krasny (Vienna)
> Art Interventions by MACHFELD, Martin Krenn
Programme in Hong Kong 2009:
city transit Asia-Europe will cooperate with the Community Museum Project and launch the second part of Cities of Desire in Hong Kong in Autumn 2009. The programme includes an exhibition, seminar and art interventions.
2. Landmark2.0 - an international public art series
Landmark2.0 is a collection of socio-political artistic interventions in cities, that envisages alternative place-making practices by incorporating local cultural resources and re-appropriating urban space and its infrastructure. city transit will cooperate with local partners to activate new perspectives in different cities.
Landmark2.0 is conceived and curated by Hilary Tsui
Landmark2.0_HK (scheduled in Sept 2009)
Participating artists & architects: Martin Krenn, Macheld, feld72, Cedric Maridet, Luke Ching
3. Cooperation with sidewalkCINEMA
city transit cooperated with Wolke7, an urban initiative in Vienna, on the Kaiserstrasse sidewalkcinema film festival in 2006 and 2007.
Curator (Asia Focus): Hilary Tsui
Partners in HK: IFVA- independent film and video art award, Hong Kong Arts Centre, School of Creative Media, HK City University.
“Asia Focus”- participating artists: D-Fuse (UK), Lizza May David (DE), Ernest Fung (HK), Chi-Jan Hou (Taiwan), Hong-Ting Li (HK), Winnie Lai-Wan Choi (HK), Harald Scherz (AT), Louis Wang (CN), George Cheuk-Hin Wong (HK)
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