DINAMIK(TT)AK
AMASTÉ [Ricardo Antón, Txelu Balboa, Idota Azkorra, Frederico Javier Morino, Seba Domato]

DINAMIK(TT)AK is a summer camp for young adults of between 17 and 19 who are interested in following studies related to creative subjects, understanding creativity as a tool of action in social aspects beyond techniques of aesthetic representation. The main objective of the summer camp is to create a "bridge" between high school and further creative studies, initiating the participants in creative practice as a vehicle for action, participation, representation or social transformation beyond its aesthetic function related to skills and use of representational techniques. The purpose of the camp is to create a framework in which young adults can meet and debate about their interest and involvement in contemporary creation and applied creativity.

DINAMIK (TT) AK is an initiative of CASI TENGO 18, a program of participation, cultural and social action and non-formal education with teenagers promoted by synmarc and AMASTÉ. It is included in the program of Work camps of the Basque Government and has taken place for the last three years (2006-08) in Arteleku (public centre of art dependent on Gipuzkoa's Diputación Foral) during the second fortnight of July.

www.dinamikttak.com
www.amaste.com

SKYMILIT
KUNSTrePUBLIK [Markus Lohmann, Harry Sachs, Philip Horst, Daniel Seiple, Matthias Einhoff]

KUNSTrePUBLIK produces site-specific projects and generate strategies for unused and mutable public spaces. In Lahore, Pakistan, the collective KUNSTrePUBLIK developed Sky limit renting a rooftop and loft space over the city's market as a production, exhibition and public art debating space. This space , between two roofs, where children play, women iron their laundry, men bow in prayer, shave, or build pigeon houses is located in a market where buildings are stand side by side, without separation space and where all the residents are known to each other. Sky Limit Walled City offered a rare perspective to create site-specific art. During this residency, KUNSTrePUBLIK produced individual and collective projects.
The first exhibition at Sky Limit Walled City was produced in November 2008. The space is now managed by a team of local artists, with the aim to continue generating local interaction.

www.skulpturenpark.org

FACHADA
TUP (Trabajos de Utilidad Pública) [Pablo Cottet Soto, Patricio Castro, Enrique Venegas Flores]

This project articulates two concepts: the desire to raise an interface (artistic practice) able to generate a conversation that relates art, public space and citizenship, through observation and intervention of housefronts of two areas of Santiago de Chile and, to develop the project as façade as well. In this sense the project questions certain issues referring to the relations between author -work-audience in the context of artistic practice.
The artists intervened in two popular urban areas located in the southwest sector of Santiago, villa Jaime Eyzaguirre (Macul's commune) and villa Simón Bolívar (Peñalolen's commune), placed one opposite to the other and separated by an avenue, currently an inter-urban road. The project was based on three observations: the  history of construction in both areas, desire (desire of place, place of desire) and the façade as an example of public - private membrane. Debating on these topics, through meetings, gatherings and developing activities with neighbours , some plans for façade interventions appeared.

www.tup.cl

LAYERS OF REALITY
Paola Di Bello

Layers of Reality is a micro archive of situations aim of achieving a better undestanding of certain aspects of our life in the metropolis . The artist tries, by  working with exclusion, marginalisation, in human beings or objects, to open a view towards a “full” interpretation of certain phenomena, to demonstrate an alternative  reality, looking especially for things that we do not see or which are left out of our gaze . As a working methodology, the artist explores the city investigating places and ways of living adopted by the homeless and the Roms in urban spaces.
The archive comprises three projects: Video Rom, which seeks to create a “bridge” between the few gypsies that live in Milan and their relatives in Romania. A video narrates their experience through the exchange of portraits between these families, reflecting also how peripheral urban spaces are defined by the presence of gypsies and non European immigrants, to the extent that some spaces are only made comprehensible by the presence of these people. Framing the Community is a series of group portraits of people living in the Isola quarter. The background for the portraits is a broken window opening to an area of Milan subject to intense urban regeneration and real estate speculation. Thus, the people who wanted their photos taken were part of a specific human and urban landscape. At the same time, the window, the view, became a hypothetical house for all these people.
L’Isola-Che-Non-C’è (Never-Never-Never-Land) is a video that shows the difficulties encountered while walking in the city, from the point of view of a baby in a pushchair. The video also documents the artist’s interventions that denounce the obstacles and trash on the walkways.

M1ML (Mándame un mensaje luego)
sin|studio [Paula Alvarez, Ana Fernández, José M. Galán]

M1Ml is part of a research on public space, developed by sin|studio since 2003.
Sin|studio`s work explores emerging forms of creating links between citizens in urban space, considering it as a place where people meet, express and can practice liberties and individual and collective rights.
Sin|studio  has developed different proposals for specific locations and situations. The proposals have a remarkable experimental character, are trying to redefine mechanisms to operate with community issues and especially are suggesting a revision of architectural tools and processes, by tracing connections with other fields involved in the transformation of  public ground, i.e. art, sociology, biology or technology. The project focuses on how new technologies connect the artificial to the natural and geophysical space to electronic and computing networks.

www.sinistudio.blogspot.com

COAL UNDER THE SKIN
Ottonella Mocellin, Nicola Pellegrini

Coal Under the Skin is a participative public art project realised with a community of ex-miners and their wives in Barbarano, a village in the Salento region of Apulia. The project was part of a collaborative research, studying interpersonal relationships, which results in a multitude of narrative fragments. The idea was to tell a personal story through the artists` body movements,  voices and gazes, giving the original narrator part -control over the work. The intention is to create, through collaboration, a space for emotional exchange in which art and narration might be considered as reciprocal gifts. The project also traces a hidden memory of Italy, unveiling the story of Italian emigrants who left the region after World War II.
The culmination  of the research is this installation/performance displaying the stories of the ex-miners of Barbarano. The project took part in the Tirana Biennale, 2003.

RALLYCONURBANO
Colectivo multidisciplinar

Rallyconurbano proposes to decipher Buenos Aires` landscape, by occupying it ephemerally, discovering surprising and unexpected places.
The project is based on the exploration and experimentation of time and peripheral urban public spaces. Travelling by public transport, a gathering of different people attempts  to visualise areas through presence at a certain place and at a certain moment. Roaming around the chosen location, spontaneous discussions and interdisciplinary reflections inciting critical thinking result from this aesthetic collective experience. The diverse narrations, comments, photos, and opinions are later uploaded and shared on a blog, which is another platform for exchange and “virtual” discussion.
The proposal is to publish a foldable map showing the itineraries, photos and chronicles of different rallies. Also postcards of each rally, with corresponding details (image, map, and chronicle), will be published.

www.rallyconurbano.com.ar
www.rally-conurbano.blogspot.com

ANTIMUSEO
Tomás Ruiz-Riva

The proposal consists in the creation of a theoretical text, departing from the Antimuseo project. The text would be a continuation of the Micromuseos study, deepening in two aspects of the investigation: the generation of social dynamics through artistic experiences and their impact on urban space, using new meaning and appropiation strategies for this.
The Antimuseo-centro Portátil is a transportable and low-budget device for art display. It is designed for short-term interventions and can be moved and installed easily by one person. It is equipped with a portable audiovisual kit, which makes it sufficiently autonomous for an intervention. The objective of this project is to investigate, through an exhibition experience, the audience/museum relationship, and to bring new knowledge about the system of art, its institutions and  strategies of socialization of art. C.P. aspires to contextualise  artwork and activate new social situations around it.

www.ojoatomico.com

YENISEHIRMEKTUPCULARI - NEWCITYLETTRISTS
Zeyno Pekunlu, Aylin Kuryel, Bob Pannebaker

The proposal is to document Yenisehirmektupculari collective`s project, which is a collection of signs and details of urban culture in three different cities: Istambul, Amsterdam and El Prat. Through a themed photo series showing fragments of daily life public spaces, the artists aim to reveal an urban reality that does not exist in guidebooks, as well as to show how cities can be different or similar.
Moreover, the project proposes the exploration of the effects of de-contextualizing specific city features. Through interventions in public space particular characteristics will be shifted from one city to another. This project intends to show the complexity of signs in the city considered as cultural and social codes.

yenisehirmektupculari.blogspot.com