Art in Odd Places presents Urban Design Week 2011, a new public festival organized by the Institute for Urban Design. Urban Design Week was created so New Yorkers could actively participate with their surroundings and explore the public spaces and streetscapes New York City has to offer. Starting September 15th, the festival will be jam packed with tours, screenings, workshops and events across the five boroughs. The information about the festival is below.
On behalf of Art in Odd Places, we thank you and hope to see you there! Please don't hesitate to contact artinoddplaces@gmail.com should you have any questions.
ART IN ODD PLACES PRESENTS
URBAN DESIGN WEEK PANEL DISCUSSION ON GOWANUS CANAL
Art in Odd Places, in partnership with the Institute for Urban Design and Proteus Gowanus, is pleased to present Rise and Fall: Contemporary Nautical Practice and the Gowanus Canal on the occasion of the first annual Urban Design Week festival (September 15 – 20, 2011).
This panel discussion will center on artists and activists who take the NYC waterways as their creative point of departure, and who have crafted alternative ways to reclaim the water as viable public space. Of particular interest in this dialog is EPA Superfund site, the Gowanus Canal. Some ideas that may be explored in the conversation include: creating alternative economies, re-imagining transportation, sustainability and the waterfront, and the thought of greater autonomy and accessibility for the urban individual. While Urban Design Week is a festival that is looking for creative, yet nonetheless practical solutions to real concerns regarding livability in NYC, this panel seeks to balance the design conversation with artistic projects that allow for a further-reaching imagination into a future of agency.
Panelists: Ludger K. Balan, Dylan Gauthier, Constance Hockaday, Mary Mattingly and Tim Thyzel
Moderator: Jeff Stark
Organized by Juliana Driever
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union St, Brooklyn
Subways: N to Union Street; F, G to Carroll Street
Admission is free.
Urban Design Week, organized by the Institute for Urban Design, is a new public festival created to engage New Yorkers in the fascinating and complex issues of the public realm, and to celebrate the streetscapes, sidewalks, and public spaces at the heart of city life. Through an open-call ideas competition and a rich roster of discussions, tours, screenings, workshops, and events across the five boroughs, UDW will highlight the fact that cities are made by collective effort, and that each of us can play a part. www.urbandesignweek.org
Partners
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL is the 7th annual NYC festival featuring performances, interventions, visual installations, video, sound and more in public spaces. Our workaims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. AiOP is a project of GOH Productions. www.gohproductions.com.
For thirty years the Institute for Urban Design (IfUD) has positioned itself as a central platform for debate over issues related to urban planning, development, and design. By creating a common territory for architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, academics, journalists, and urban enthusiasts, we acknowledge that to ensure quality in planning and urban design, a dialogue must emerge that represents the diversity of stakeholder voices affected by urban development. Urban Design Week (September 15-20, 2011) is organized by the Institute for Urban Design. This festival celebrates the streetscapes, sidewalks, and public spaces at the heart of New York City life with a public festival featuring events across the five boroughs, and includes the crowdsourced design competition By the City / For the City
Proteus Gowanus, an interdisciplinary gallery and reading room, seeks to create an alternative, culturally rich environment designed to stimulate the creative process; a place where the boundaries between the artist and non-artist fade, where images and ideas from disparate disciplines are juxtaposed to create new meanings. Proteus also includes eight Projects-in-Residence. One, the Hall of Gowanus, is a mini-museum of the history, science and culture of the Gowanus Canal and its environs.
Panelists
Ludger K. Balan is an Artist, Filmmaker, Scuba Diver, a Naturalist and Licensed Falconer. He is the founder of The Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy, a not-for-profit environmental and cultural organization that serves communities throughout New York Harbor in quality and innovative public engagement programs in environmental literacy, conservation support, youth development, cultural enrichment and maritime activities. Mr. Balan spearheads the organization as its Executive Environmental and Cultural Program Director, and is the designer of the organizations EnviroMedia Mobile - a state-of-the-art mobile nature and maritime museum on wheels. The mobile museum serves the public with a robust Children and Families program series at IKEA Erie Basin Park, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Dylan Gauthier is a Brooklyn-based artist (which sometimes also means writer, curator, educator, boatbuilder, media activist). His works are videos, photographs, soundtracks, and performances and are concerned with temporary situations, shared experiences, public space and access to information. He is co-founder of the boatbuilding and printmaking project Mare Liberum (thefreeseas.org), a frequent collaborator with the Gowanus Studio Space, and with the collective Red76, and has shown in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. Dylan is a candidate in the MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College.
Constance Hockaday belongs to a family of boat builders called the Floating Neutrinos. Headed by modern nomad Poppa Neutrino, they have built more than twelve rafts, largely from salvaged and recycled materials - some of which have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. She builds boats, books, and public lectures. Her most recent project is the Boggsville Boatel and Boat-in Theatre— a hotel and movie theatre made from salvaged boats and wood. Hockaday also has a second job working in the field of conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution. http://www.constancehockaday.wordpress.com
Mary Mattingly has participated in exhibitions at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the International Center of Photography, Palais de Tokyo, and the Neuberger Museum of Art. She has had solo exhibitions at Occurrence Espace d'art et d'essai Contemporains in Montreal, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY and Galerie Adler in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2011, she participated in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation (NYC), Art Omi (ME), and is currently a Fellow at Eyebeam (NYC). Her work has been featured in ArtForum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Le Monde Magazine, ICON, Sculpture Magazine, Aperture, BBC News, and MSNBC.
Tim Thyzel was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1966. He is currently living and working in New York City. Thyzel received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and a Diploma (MFA) from the Hochschule für Bildende Künster in Hamburg in 1995. His work has been shown in galleries and museums in the US, Europe and Australia. Thyzel frequently incorporates sculpture and performance in the public realm. Recently he created boats from bubble wrap and brown packing tape, which he successfully launched on the East River and Meadow Lake.
Jeff Stark (Moderator) is the editor of Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list and discriminating resource for independent art, weird events, strange happenings, unique parties, and senseless culture in New York City. He was a member of the Miss Rockaway Armada, a collective art project that floated a junk raft down the Mississippi River in 2006, and built rafts for Swoon's Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea in 2008. He lives a block and a half from the Gowanus Canal. http://jeffstark.org
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