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Artists Exploring Contemporary Urban Space

The Urban Research Programme curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr is a special theme-based programme at The International Directors Lounge Media Art Festival. Urban Research has become a steady pool for innovative work concerning public space and urban development. An increasing number or artists act in response to the accelerated changes in the urban environment, demanding different ideas on how public place should be defined and created. These artists use documentary and experimental forms to create novel ideas about the urban environments under change.

The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2011
http://www.directorslounge.net/
Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
10-20 February 2011
Open Daily 18 - late
Free unlimited entrance

Sunday, 13 February 18:00
Urban Research I
Places and Locations - Reality Check

Going on field research, the filmmakers and artists of this programme record peripheral, vernacular but still memorable moments of their surrounding. If place is connected with memory, constructed by memory, these artists make aware, that memories may be connected to vernacular artifacts, to shop signs, ugly corners, technical constructions, street "furniture" or even telephone booths. If those vanish, something may get lost with them. The spatial representations and a reading of spaces in these films prove that the experience of place and location can be much more than a depiction or collection of memorabilia.

Visual research thus may connect us with reality instead of just showing landmarks or "sights",  the "memorable" and camera-aided fact of "having been there" or the representation of the representative.

- Bill Brown US Chicago Corner 4 min 2010
- Hope Tucker USA Puhelinkoppi (1882 -2007) 7min 30s 2010
- Stephanie Gray US You know they want to disappear Hell's Kitchen as Clinton 17min 2010
- Roberto Duarte CL 131 2min 32s 2009
- Uwe Doebbeke DE Passagen 8min 2002
- Paul Rascheja DE Spaces 2min12s 2010
- Marjan Laaper NL At the Mall 1 min 26s 2009/2010
- Ellen Lake USA Seaworthy 3min 10s 2010
- Christina McPhee US Deep Horizon 7min:32 2010
- Alla Kovgan US New London Calling 10 min 2010
- Deborah Phillips DE Herman(n) 8 min 2011

Tuesday, 15 February 20:00
Urban Research II
Imaginary Spaces - Virtual Vision

Imagination (of space) has once again intruded photography and image making.

Perceptions are strongly influenced by images, by mental images as much as by media images.  The perceptions of space, as well as identification with a place thus depend on images.

In the digital age, spatial representation may have lost its significant in the real world. In our perception it already is space. It is not the simulation of space (Beaudrillard) being relevant here, still connected with the duality of signifier-significant, but the ways mental mapping is including the virtual sphere. Space, our private and shared realm, thus may consist of an indistinguishable mix of virtual and real places.

- Anders Weberg SE Elsewhereness: Cape Town 2min 7s 2009
- Marina Chernikova NL Metro V 2min 30s 2009
- GUP-py DE/JP Out of the Sky - Back into the Sky 9min 4s 2010
- Henry Gwiazda US something/the/you 4min 58s 2009
- Morehshin Allahyari IR Over There Is Over Here 5min 43s 2010
- Sarah Breen Lovett AU Expanded Architecture 04: Window Wound 1min 20sec 2010
- Susanne Wiegner DE just midnight 3min 37s 2010
- Valentina Ferrandes IT The Oyster Effect 11min 52s 2010
- Anders Weberg SE Elsewhereness: Utrecht 4min 7s 2010
- Vera Frenkel CN Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive 15min 26s 2008
- Tina Willgren SE The Polymoids 2min 51s 2010
- Julie Meyer FR Eclipse 1min 20s 2009
- Andrew de Freitas NZ/ CN L'Espace Quotidien 10min 46s 2010
- André Chi Sing Yueng DE The work 3min 35s 2010

Wednesday, 16. February 19:00
Urban Research III
Interventions - The Spaces of Politics

According to Henri Lefébvre, the production of space is not happening without its use, its occupation, or responsibility for place. Since the 60's or maybe earlier with the Internationa Situationists, artists have tried to play a more active role in society - outside of the art world. Documentary projects, happenings and performances have since become a part of many artists' active life, and in one way or the other, they have had an influence on ideas, political practice or movements.

With the new social media, they may reach an even larger audience, or on the other hand, artists have to deal with the new rising powers and to compete with other groups striving for media dominance: How do you deal with bombings (in your own country)?

- Pilar Ortiz X CL Circunvalación 33min 2010
- Andrew Norman Wilson US Workers Leaving the Googleplex 11min 59s 2010
- Jacob Kirchheim, Teresa Delgado DE Terrorsounds 6min 2010
- Masha Godovannaya RU 40 10min 40s 2010
- Tom Skipp ES Antioch - Florent on the Bridge 9min 26s 2010
- Yaron Lapid IL/UK Casual Mechanism 2m 30s 2010
- Shalalae Jamil PK Watching Wheels 5min 30s 2010-2011

Urban Research IV
4. Loop Program
Playing during days of Urban Research Programme

- James George US what i remember 4min 36s 2010
- Ken Paul Rosenthal US Arcs of Texture 6min
- Scott Stark US Compressive/Percussive 18min. 2010
- Yaron Lapid IL / UK Except in struggle, there is no more beauty 1min 18s 2009

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