In the framework of this years’ transmediale and CTM edition Public Art Lab presents //
URBAN MEDIA KITCHEN – Cultural projects in Europe and the Arab world:
On Tuesday, 26th January 2016, 19h Public Art Lab invites to join the URBAN MEDIA KITCHEN in the framework of transmediale’s and CTM’s Vorspiel.
URBAN MEDIA KITCHEN is a mixed format with talks, food, music and projections creating a platform for interculinary exchange. In times in which the meaning of social and political geographies seems to uprise this edition will focus on cultural work and highlight the importance to connecting cities and citizen on a North-South-Axis. In cooperation with MitOst e.V. and Tandem Shaml curators and cultural workers from European and Arab countries will share their projects and provide insights to the value of transcontinental cooperation projects within the current socio-cultural and political context.
Our neighbours Bi’Bak will support us in cooking special ‚Eurabian‘ food and with music and drinks you’ll have time to get in touch and continue discussions in small groups.
LIAM YOUNG – NEW CITY Screenings
Public Art Lab is delighted to present Liam Young’s ‘New City’ animation series in cooperation with transmediale and the Collegium Hungaricum,
New City, 2014
by Liam Young
New City is a series of animated skylines of the near future. In intricate detail they depict a speculative urbanism, an exaggerated version of the present, in which we can project new cultural trends, environmental, political and economic forces. Photographs taken on expeditions around the world with nomadic studio Unknown Fields, to document these emerging phenomena and weak signals have been meticulously stitched together and extrapolated to form each city skyline. In this way ‘New City’ slips between the real and the imagined, between the documentary and the visionary, where speculative fictions become a way of exploring a world that the everyday struggles to grasp. To accompany the animations the authors Jeff Noon, Pat Cadigan and Tim Maughan have been invited to inhabit each skyline, to breathe life into its characters and cultures and give form to its streets and spaces through a suggestive narrative fragment. Original New City soundscapes have been developed by Coldcut.
Screenings at Public Art Lab’s URBAN MEDIA GALLERY: 26.-28. January 2016, 7-10 pm
Screenings at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin: 2.-7. February 2016, 7-11 pm