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18 December 2008
Un-Built, Athens

Vassilissis Sofias Avenue, Athens, 18 Dec 2008

Networked Cultures - The Athens Dialogues

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer,
Despoina Sevasti and Poka-Yio (Athens Biennial)

Thursday, 18 December 2008, 6.30 - 8.00pm

Byzantine and Christian Museum
22 Vassilissis Sofias Avenue
10675 Athens, Greece

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

8 - 10pm: Opening of the exhibition

Gunners & Runners

in the framework of Un-built

2008 international architecture research events at the Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum in collaboration with SARCHA (School of ARCHitecture for All)

The un-built has historically been associated with the so-called utopian or visionary architectural projects and with the operation of drawing or architecture writing as a critical tool. The 2008 international programme runs for the whole year in form of small-scale exhibitions, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, seminars, conferences and other events that investigate the theme of the 'un-built' in a multidisciplinary context.

19 - 20 December 2008
Un-built, Athens

Negotiating the Un-built: Interdisciplinary Interactions on Space and Democracy

International conference in the context of the “Space and Democracy Network” events
supported by ESRC, UK

Friday 19 December 2008, 18:00-21:00
Saturday 20 December 2008, 10:00-19:30

Coordinators: Maria Theodorou, Yannis Stavrakakis
Speakers: Christine Boyer, P. Astreinidou, A. Lada, P. Nikiforidis, B. Cuomo, R. Sakellaridou, M. Papanikolaou, M. Kokkinou, A. Kourkoulas, D. Issaias, T. Papaioannou
Dimitris Papalexopoulos, Sitesize, Merijn Oudenampsen, Urban Void, Yannis Stavrakakis, A-topia, SARCHA, Elias Zenghelis, Costas Douzinas
Chairs: Demetrios Konstantios, Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck, Kaliope Kontozoglou, Myrsine Zorba, Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis

detailed programme

Byzantine and Christian Museum
22 Vassilissis Sofias Avenue
10675 Athens, Greece

29 November 2008
5th MSE-Meeting / Usti nad Labem

Border Service, Czech Republik / Austria

5. MSE – Meeting (Middle-South-East Meeting) „Network Practice“

28/29 November 2008

Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem
Pasteurova 9, 400 01 Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic

The idea of the MSE – Meetings (MSE stands for Middle-South-East Europe) is to gather leaders of art initatives & institutions, curators and theoreticians with a focus on the Middle-South-Eastern European region in order to exchange knowledge, information and experiences and to discuss the specific topic of the Meeting. The Meetings are held biannual and always in different countries.

This edition of MSE – Meeting will put its focus on the idea of networking itself. Therefore a number of representatives from other comparable networks and leaders of institutions respectively curators who work with network related ideas and structures will be invited to join the Meeting in order to compare and discuss the different conceptions of existing networks and the role they can play in further developing of international collaborative projects among participants of such networks. Questions of different impact of a specific project idea on particular art scenes will be as well raised as challenges of collaboration in the moment of different basic conceptions of participating art initiatives and further on disproportions in the MSE region regarding the ability to get projects funded.

detailed programme (pdf)

8 November 2008
VUE – Vitrine Urbaine d’Expertise, Paris

VUE2 - Networked Cultures: Architectures parallèles et politiques spatiales

samedi 8 novembre à 18h00
au 4 rue du Canada, Paris 18ème

l’atelier d’architecture autogérée vous invitent à une soirée VUE (Vitrine Urbaine d'Expertise) du quotidien,
une présentation de livre et une discussion sur le theme

Networked Cultures: Parallel Architecture and the Politics of Space / Cultures en Réseau: architectures parallèles et politiques spatiales

proposé par Peter Mörtenböck et Helge Mooshammer

Networked Cultures questionne les transformations urbaines, politiques et culturelles en Europe en analysant les potentiels et les effets des pratiques en réseau. Ce projet de recherche mené à L'Université Goldsmiths de Londres propose une collaboration entre des pratiques artistiques , architecturales et urbaines en Europe et ailleurs, afin de montrer comment des espaces contestés permettent des habitations de territoires et des narrativités multiples au delà des frontières culturelles, sociales et géographiques. Le projet rassemble une database textuelle et visuelle sur des pratiques et des situations d'urbanisme alternatif engagé.

Cet événement a reçu le soutien du PAR / Forum des cultures autrichien à Paris

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

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22 October 2008
Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna

Networked Cultures – The Vienna Dialogues

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
and Emiliano Gandolfi (curator of the main pavilion of the 11th Architecture Biennale Venice, 2008),
Margarethe Makovec (< rotor >),
Doris Burtscher (founder member of IG Architektur, Vienna)
and Gulsen Bal (director of Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna)
moderated by Elke Krasny

Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 7pm

az w - Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Museumsplatz 2, 1070 Wien

Exhibition Networked Cultures
From 9 October to 19 November 2008 an exhibition on issues adressed in the Networked Cultures project can be visited at
Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2, Schwedenplatz, 1020 Vienna

Opening: 09 October 2008, 7pm
Exhibition open by appointment only, free admission
please contact: office@openspace-zkp.org

Project curators: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
Participant artists: Judith Augustinovic / Ursula Biemann / hackitectura.net
Film by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

16 October 2008
Whitechapel Gallery, London

Networked Cultures – The London Dialogues

in association with Goldsmiths, University of London

Speakers include Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (editors)
Ergin Çavuşoğlu (artist, London),
Doina Petrescu (atelier d’architecture autogérée, Paris)
and Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths, London).

Thursday, 16 October 2008, 7pm

Whitechapel Gallery
London

This event is supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

9 October to 19 November 2008
Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna

Ursula Biemann, Sahara Chronicles
Judith Augustinovic, Skinship N°1 - Hautnah

Networked Cultures

Opening: 9 October 2008, 7pm

Project curators: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
Participant artists:
Judith Augustinovic
Ursula Biemann
hackitectura.net
Film by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

hackitectura.net, Cartography of the Straits of Gibraltar

Open Space
Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2
Schwedenplatz
1020 Wien
Austria

Exhibition open by appointment only, free admission
please contact: office@openspace-zkp.org

supported by
BM:UKK
Stadt Wien - Kulturabteilung MA 7
in co-operation with
Architekturzentrum Wien

Book presentation and panel discussion:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

22 October 2008, 7pm at Architekturzentrum Wien – Podium

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9 - 14 September 2008
ARCHIPHOENIX / Venice Architecture Biennale

ARCHIPHOENIX
FACULTIES FOR ARCHITECTURE

Dutch Pavilion (Next to the Italian Pavilion)
Giardini di Castello
La Biennale di Venezia

Friday 12 September 2008, 11 - 18 hrs

SPEED DATE MARATHON
Adopt a faculty for architecture - 25 speakers interviewed.

Contributors: Andre Dekker (Observatorium), Piet Vollaard (ArchiNed), Jeroen van Schooten (Meyer&VanSchooten), Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio), Robert Winkel (Mei Architecten), Elma van Boxtel & Kristian Koreman (ZUS), Ivan Kucina (Faculty of Architecture Belgrade), Aleksandar Ostan (Open Circle), Håkon Matre Aasarød & Erlend Blakstad Haffner (Fantastic Norway), Malkit Shoshan (FAST), Lidewij Edelkoort (Design Academy Eindhoven), Matthijs Bouw (One Architecture), Allard Jolles (Dutch Government Buildings Agency), Lauren Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix (MAP office), Ton Venhoeven (VenhoevenCS), Remy Ramaekers (Droog Design), Shumon Basar (Architectural Association, Tank Magazine), Cecilia Andersson (Werk), Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Normal Architecture Office), Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer (Networked Cultures), Ole Bouwman (NAi), Mark Wigley (Columbia University), Tor Lindstrand & Mårten Spångberg (International Festival), Winy Maas (MVRDV), John Thackara (Doors of Perception) and Mels Crouwel (Benthem & Crouwel)
In conversation with: Jord den Hollander, architect and filmmaker, Amsterdam

ARCHIPHOENIX - Faculties for Architecture has turned the Dutch Pavilion, at this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice, into a weeklong stage for research and exploration and a debate platform focussing on the capacities and capabilities of architecture - beyond building. ARCHIPHOENIX takes the recent burning-down of the Faculty of Architecture in Delft as starting point for an exploration of what values to defend, what territories to explore and what practices to develop as an architect. The fire seems to open a new era, it gives the architecture community a chance to reposition itself and the opportunity to question whether thinking in terms of buildings is the solution to the issues and demands that we face in the near future. In short: the faculties for architecture, in the sense of its multiple capacities, powers, capabilities. A question mark rather than an exclamation mark.

While on the one hand, global pressures - massive population growth, economic instabilities, limits of the resources available, just to name a few - urge architects to radically reconsider their tools, products and models of working, a growing number of practices already showcase possible directions. How could they be made to work - on a scale that answers the challenges ahead?

The project focuses on five questions each architect encounters: WHY WE MAKE - beyond the profitable simplicity into the social sustainability, WHAT WE MAKE - beyond the artifact, HOW WE WORK - beyond the singular into the collaborative, FOR WHOM WE MAKE - beyond power to empowerment, and finally WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE (AND UN-MAKE) - beyond the sustainable: challenging the flow of resources, materials and people. These five seemingly simple, yet essential questions, if put to face challenges ahead become serious issues for discussion.

From 9-14 September, during the Biennale opening days, the project has taken the opportunity to engage the vast network of architects and other professionals present in a direct exchange either as speakers, interviewers, moderators. To make it all happen a number of active and engaged people joined in a role of editors in this collaborative effort, to produce the six ‘boogazines’ made on-site. The spatial setting itself has been changing on a daily basis to accommodate dinner, round tables, speed dates, lectures, workshop, and an on-site instantly edited video and book production unit. While the pavilion has been acting as a temporary 'school', the produced content aims to become an imaginary curriculum for architecture beyond division on education and practice. The results of this dense process are on show in the Dutch Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, until 23 November 2008.

3 July 2008
Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture

21st Century Anxiety

Thursday 3 July 2008

Department of Art History, University of Nottingham

This interdisciplinary conference explores the issue of cultural anxiety in the 21^st Century, as represented in contemporary art, photography, film, literature, cyber-culture and architecture. The program aims to highlight how cultural anxieties have been expressed both historically and in the last decade, and explore what the future holds for anxious representations and/or the representation of those anxieties.

Second part of the three-day contribution of Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture (NIRVC) to WJT Mitchell’s Leverhulme visiting Professorship.

with:
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer (University of Vienna, Goldsmiths)
Fabienne Collignon (University of Glasgow)
Tracy Marie Taylor (Columbia College, Chicago)
John Rimmer (University of Derby)
Sara Andersdotter (Wimbledon College of Art)
Ignaz Cassar (University of Leeds)
Mark Goodall & David Robsion (University of Bradford)
Tim Martin (De Montfort University, Leicester)

Plenary Discussion with WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago)

25 June 2008
santralistanbul, Istanbul

Networked Cultures – The Istanbul Dialogues

Book presentation, screening and discussion

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
and Asu Aksoy,
Orhan Esen,
Guven Incirlioglu
and Erden Kosova

Launched by Istanbul Bilgi University, Cultural Management Department,
in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London

Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 5pm

santralistanbul, E4 305
Istanbul

Asu Aksoy is international project co-ordinator at santralistanbul and also involved in the MA programme of the Management of Performing Arts at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Orhan Esen is an urban researcher, historian and writer based in Istanbul.
Guven Incirlioglu is one of the founder members of the Linz, Istanbul, İzmir and New York based xurban_collective and Associate Professor at İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi.
Erden Kosova is a contributor to the Istanbul-based contemporary art magazines 'art-ist' and 'Resmi Gorus' as a writer and editor.

Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul/Avusturya Kültür Ofisi İstanbul.

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

10 June 2008
Pro qm, Berlin

Networked Cultures – The Berlin Dialogues

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
and Jochen Becker (metroZones),
Iacopo Gallico (Stalker),
Cordula Gdaniec (Humboldt University, Berlin)
and Hakan Topal (xurban)

Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 8.30pm

Pro qm
thematische Buchhandlung zu Stadt, Politik, Pop, Ökonomiekritik, Architektur, Design, Kunst & Theorie
Almstadtstraße 48-50, 10119 Berlin

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

9 Juni 2008
Metropolen in Osteuropa / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Metropolen in Osteuropa

Monday 9 June 2008, 6 pm

Helge Mooshammer (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien):
'An der Grenze des Marktes: Gemeinschaften des Überlebens von Moskau bis Istanbul'

Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Metropolenforschung, HU Berlin
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie / Mohrenstr. 41 / 10117 Berlin

Forschungskreis Stadt und Stadtgesellschaft im Umbau: Metropolen in Osteuropa
Vortragsprogramm Sommersemester 2008

6 June to 4 July 2008
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Installation of Networked Cultures

as part of the Video Archive series of exhibitions at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon. The Israeli Center for Digital Art is a dynamic platform for thinking, researching, producing, presenting, and analysing contemporary art, as well as providing a meeting point for exchange between contemporary artists, curators, critics and the public.

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

5 June 2008
Proekt_Fabrika, Moscow

Networked Cultures - The Moscow Dialogues

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer,
Asya Filippova (director of Proekt_Fabrika)
and Elena Tupyseva (director of TSEH dance centre, Moscow)

Thursday, 5 June 2008, 7pm

Proekt_Fabrika
Perevedenovsky side-street 18
105082 Moscow

Proekt_Fabrika is a multidisciplinary cultural centre founded in 2004 at the premises of the Technical Paper Factory 'October'

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

1 June 2008
European Biennial Network / Athens

'Mapping the European Biennial Network'
European Biennial Network Workshop & Conference

organised by the Athens Biennial

Sunday 1 June 2008, 10.30

B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music
9, Vassilissis Sofias Avenue & Merlin Street
Syntagma Square, Athens

Presentations and panel discussions with Chus Martinez, Director Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, and Chief Curator MACBA; Lars Bang Larsen, independent curator and writer; Helge Mooshammer, Research Fellow International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna and Visiting Tutor Visual Culture Department, Goldsmiths College, London; Peter Mörtenböck, Professor of Visual Culture at Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London; Maike Cruse, Communication & Press berlin biennial; Renate Wagner, Coordination office berlin biennial; Maya Ersan, Exhibition Management Istanbul Biennial; Antony Pickthall, Head of Marketing & Communications Liverpool Biennial; Frédérique Gautier, Artistic Coordination Lyon Biennial; Despoina Sevasti, International Projects Coordination Athens Biennial.

see programme for details (pdf)

29 May 2008
lipstick demands / SOHO in Ottakring

„verdecken | zeigen | entbergen, Sexarbeit und öffentlicher Raum“

29 May - 1 June 2008

3 days of discussions and workshops

organised by Katharina Struber, Ingrid Manka and Christine Hohenbüchler

Blumberg - Raum für Gestaltung
Neulerchenfelder Straße 90
1160 Wien

Thursday 29 May 2008

16:00 kurze Einführung
16:15 LEFÖ: Präsentation der bundesweiten Kampagne "SexarbeiterInnen haben Lust auf Ihre Rechte !"
16:30 Vortrag Helge Mooshammer: "Sex and the Market"
17:30 Diskussion

lipstick demands / SOHO in Ottakring 08

27 May 2008
Trafó Gallery, Budapest

Networked Cultures – The Budapest Dialogues

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
and Nikolett Eröss (curator of Trafó Gallery, Budapest),
Samu Szemerey (architect and urbanist, KEK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre)
and Franciska Zólyom (curator and director of ICA-D, Dunaújváros)

Wednesday, 27 May 2008, 7pm

Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts
1094 Budapest, Liliom u. 41

The discussion takes place in the framework of Impex's project in Trafó Gallery:
We are not ducks on a pond, but ships at sea (23 April to 1 June 2008)

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

15 May 2008
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

Networked Cultures – The New York Dialogues

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
and Joseph Grima (director of Storefront),
Valerie Tevere,
Hakan Topal (xurban)
and Srdjan J. Weiss (NAO)

Thursday, 15 May 2008, 7pm

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York
NY 10012

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

7 May 2008
Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto

Politics of Connectivity

A lecture by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 6:30pm

Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Toronto

6 May 2008
University of Toronto, Toronto

Networked Cultures - The Toronto Dialogues

launch and roundtable: Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space

with Christine Shaw,
Eric Cazdyn,
Gita Hashemi,
Luis Jacob,
Peter Mörtenböck,
Helge Mooshammer,
Adrian Blackwell

Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 6:30pm

The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street
Toronto

Adrian Blackwell is an artist, urban researcher and designer, whose work focuses on the spaces of uneven development produced through post-Fordist processes of urbanization. He teaches architecture and urban design at the University of Toronto.

Eric Cazdyn is professor of globalization and cultural theory at the University of Toronto. Author of The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan, he is currently completing a manuscript on illness and time in the twenty-first century.

Born in Iran, Gita Hashemi is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, curator and educator who has engaged for thirty years in the politics and poetics of social change and emancipation through participatory, collaborative and networked art-making.

Luis Jacob is a Toronto-based artist for whom experimentation with alternative forms for the creation of social interaction and participation plays a central role.

Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Helge Mooshammer is Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. Together, they initiated the international research platform Networked Cultures.

Christine Shaw is a curator, educator and writer, whose work focuses on the ethics, politics and aesthetics of participatory processes, networked culture and creative pedagogy. She organizes public events with Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry and teaches Visual Culture and Communication at the University of Toronto.

Supported by:
Austrian Cultural Forum, Ottawa
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto
Toronto Society of Architects

For more information contact adrian.blackwell@utoronto.ca http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

1 May 2008
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Rotterdam

Networked Cultures – The Rotterdam Dialogues

Thursday, 1 May 2008, 8:00pm

NAi, Gallery 1
Rotterdam

in the framework of Happening
curated by Emiliano Gandolfi

The Rotterdam Dialogues bring participants in the Networked Cultures project into contact with a group of various local players. The speakers on this evening are:
the curators Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer,
Igor Dobricic (dramatist and theatre director, associated with the European Cultural Foundation),
Sudeep Dasgupta (assistant professor of Media and Culture at Amsterdam University),
and Lucia Babina (cultural entrepreneur in Rotterdam and co-founder and chairperson of the iStrike Foundation)

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

17 April 2008
Magazin4, Bregenz

Networked Cultures - The Bregenz Dialogues

Book launch, screening and discussion

with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer,
Gulsen Bal (director of Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Wien)
and Marc Neelen (Stealth, Rotterdam)

Thursday, 17 April 2008, 7.30pm

Magazin4 at Galerie Lisi Hämmerle
Bregenz, Austria

on the occasion of the exhibition Gone City at MAGAZIN4

in association with vai (Vorarlberger Architekturinstitut), Bergmannstraße 6, 6900 Bregenz

Publication:
Networked Cultures - Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
NAi Publishers 2008

19 April - 22 June 2008

Gone City

Opening 18 April 2008, 7 pm

MAGAZIN4
Bregenzer Kunstverein
Bregenz

curated by Gulsen Bal

Participating artists:
Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Esra Ersen
Hristina Ivanoska
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer
Şener Özmen
Nasan Tur
STEALTH

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10 March 2008
IFK - International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, Vienna

Helge Mooshammer (IFK_Research Fellow)

Gemeinschaften des Überlebens. Märkte und die kulturelle Organisation Europas

Die Buden der Nachkriegszeit, Schwarzmärkte am Balkan oder der eurasische Kofferhandel - all diese Märkte sind Schauplätze einer Ökonomie des Überlebens. Durch die jüngsten politischen Veränderungen Europas entstanden in und mit diesen Märkten weitverzweigte Räume des informellen Handelns. Helge Mooshammer untersucht ihren zunehmenden Einfluss auf die kulturelle Organisation Europas. Ihn interessiert dabei das kulturelle Potenzial von informellen Märkten als Mikroschauplatz flüchtiger und paradoxer Raumproduktion. Anhand von drei spezifischen Marktagglomerationen zeigt Mooshammer auf, welche Entwicklungen der informelle Handel in den letzten Jahren genommen hat: Der Izmailovo Markt in Moskau, ein Straßenmarkt in Istanbul Topkapi und der Arizona Market im Distrikt Brcko dienen ihm dabei als Beispiele. Und schließlich fragt er danach, was diese Märkte mit dem Wiener Mexikoplatz verbindet - einem Ort, an dem seit den 1980er-Jahren Wellen an migratorischen Ökonomien Einzug gefunden habe

Monday, 3 March 2008, 6 pm

IFK - Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften
Reichsratsstraße 17
1010 Wien

7 February 2008
Initiative and Institution, London

An exhibition, a series of talks and events, a symposium, a publication. Organised by Celine Condorelli (support structure) and Andreas Lang (public works).
07.02.08 to 31.03.08, Symposium 07 and 08.03.08

Inititative & Institution Lecture Series

‘networked cultures’
Helge Mooshammer & Peter Mörtenböck

Thursday, 7 February 2008, 6:30 pm

Department of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University

Initiatives rely on action, and a readiness to embark on bold new ventures; their language is one of spontaneity and temporariness, enthusiasm and emancipation. Creative initiatives sometimes strive towards institutionalization and therefore the crossing of boundaries towards an appearance of continuity and permanence. What constitutes the shift between initiative and institution? How does and why should an initiative become an institution? And in turn how can institutions nurture and support initiatives? Initiative & Institution is a conference as publication, a series of events as exhibition, about the creation, implications and possibilities of self-initiated social and spatial projects.

‘Initiative and Institution’ seeks to negotiate the possibilities of the spatial/architectural/artistic endeavor as a political positioning. Grounded in self-organization, initiatives offer alternatives to predominant models of art or architecture as service, allowing ways of imagining the transformations of context, the organization of emergent social arrangements and the construction of new institutional forms.

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