The project City Breaks is an exchange between
two European centres, Helsinki and London. The project may be considered
in terms of practice-based research that takes the forms of individual
and collaborative investigations, which all interlink in complex ways
in the joint discussions of the ideas and possibilities as well as in
the practical production of the works and the exhibitions. It unfolds
as a layered process of encounters between the participating artists,
the two cities and their inhabitants as well as the various arts organisations
and practitioners involved in the project.
Questions guiding the project concentrate on the
personal and shared experiences of urban dwelling: the complexity of everyday
encounters and their affects, the codes and habits that guide our inhabitation
of urban environments and relations to others within them, the exchanges
that take place as we take a break from one and move to another. The aim
to focus on the patterns and possibilities, limits and strategies, that
direct our engagements with/in the cities, is reflected in the operations
and forms of City Breaks that lay emphasis on the process of dialogue
throughout the project.
Phase 1 residencies:
Whitechapel Project Space, London (Oct 04)
o Break I: Launch (26. Oct 04)
HIAP Residency Studios, Helsinki (Dec 04)
o Break II: Launch (12. Dec 04)
Phase 2 exhibitions:
Muu Gallery ( Artists Association Muu), Helsinki (15. Jan
6. Feb 05)
o Private View (14. Jan 05)
o Break III: All-day Brunch (16. Jan 05)
Whitechapel Project Space, London (3. Mar 3. Apr 05)
o Private View (2. Mar 05)
o Break IV: All-day Brunch (tbc)
Participants:
UK: Christopher Barr, Irit Garty & Isaac Layish, Abigail Reynolds
Finland: Simo Brotherus, Anu Pennanen, Minna Suoniemi
Curator: Taru Elfving
For further information please contact the curator
Taru Elfving
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