WHAT WE SEE & MAKE SEEN

Seminar "Visualisation Strategies & Public Spheres"

Visualisation Strategies & Public Spheres. A study of the notions and functions of art in public spheres in Hong Kong and Zurich. As a work in progress it is a working blog and serving as a tool for exchange.
Focus on transculturality, contemporary art in Hong Kong, Public Art, Performance in public space.
http://www.whatwesee.ch/

Field Research - Intercultural Communication

Edward T: Hall. The hidden dimension. 1966
Time Cultures
Monochrome society - timetables, schedules, exclusiv to what doesnt fit into schedule
Polychrome society - multioptions, unforeseen situations are taken as is, content not schedule.
Space
Spatial Claims, Patterns and rules of using space
Communications
Different Means in verbal and non-verbal communication. High context vs. low context communication
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Christophe Girot. The Four Trace Concepts. 1999
Landing is the first act of site acknowledgment, and it marks the beginning of the odyssey of the project.
Grounding is the second step in landscape discovery and understanding. Grounding has to do with orientation and rootedness, both in the literal and figurative sense of the word.
Finding entails the act and process of searching as well as the outcome, the thing discovered. It is both an activity and an insight.
Founding is probably the most durable and significant of the four trace acts. It comes at the moment when the prior three acts are synthesized into a new and transformed construction of the site. Founding may be either conservative-referring to some past event or circum stance-or innovative-importing something new to a place.

Nkule Mbaso - Community and the Arts. Comunal collaboration in Public Space

Newcastle Creative Network - The network supports the advancement and development of a local Creative Economy in the Newcastle, Northern Natal area, by engaging local youth.

Mission - Our mission is to provide exposure of the artist’s work to greater audiences and to make practitioners aware of each other and not function in isolation but rather as part of a supportive community that encourages peer dialogue and exchange.

Description - Community Based Arts Organisation in Newcastle, Northen Natal focused on the creative development of the youth and supporting existing creative practitioners.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Newcastle-Creative-Network/177237322368092?ref=br_tf
http://nkulemabaso.com/wp/newcastle-creative-network/
Nkule Mbaso: http://nkulemabaso.com
http://nkulemabaso.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Open+Gallery+V2N1+final+-+flat.pdf

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The Maboneng Township Arts Experience
The Maboneng Township Arts Experience is a national public arts initiative that turns homes in townships into galleries and outdoor spaces into performance districts. We work humbly with home owners and families to create a warm intimate arts environment in our townships. After 10 years, The Maboneng Township Arts Experience has turned over 70 homes in South African townships into galleries, exhibited over 50 artists and encouraged township residents to invest in art.
http://www.maboneng.com/

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Dealing with cultural difference

Zygmunt Bauman, polnisch-britischer Soziologe und Philosoph. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman
From Pilgrim to Tourist, or a short history of Identity https://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/tourist/Baumann-pilgrim-tourist.pdf

Photo:
Francis Alÿs, Turista, Mexico City, 1994, Photographic documentation of an action
Courtesy of Francis Alÿs and David Zwirner, New York, Image: Enrique Huerta © Francis Alÿs, http://www.exporevue.com/magazine/fr/index_francis_alys.html 

Annemarie Bucher - Foa Flux

Foa-flux produces much-needed data for a critical debate that is not hampered
from the start by self-limiting and ideological concepts.
As such, FOA-FLUX contributes to the ongoing re-evaluation of established reference systems and to the discussion on art worldwide.
One of FOA-FLUX‘s hallmarks is our ability to linking the scientific, artistic, and
applied production of knowlege with an informed exchange about art.
FOA-FLUX (co-)runs projects in Europe, southern Africa, South America, and South Asia.

Tang Kai Yiu Frank

Experience of Chinese Landscape Painting, by Tang Kai Yiu Frank (Hong Kong)

Chinese Landscape paintings emphasize the combination of the environment and the painter himself. However, it comes as a dubious statement that people nowadays are still touched by the paintings and experience the feeling of the painter.

"If we don't build on traditional, what should we build on?" Xu Bing. Landscape painting in an urban area. Relationship between landscape and mindscape. Reality vs Virtuality. www.tangkaiyiu.com

Hong Kong - links to Audio artists, label, venues

From:
Syrphe.com
http://www.syrphe.com/african&asian_database.htm
check there for latest listings.

Interview with C-Drík Fermont, curator and producer of Syrphe-database.
By Julian Bonequi, published @ norient.com
http://norient.com/blog/syrphe/