Iconic Site (#5), Installation

Opening Saturday 15th of September 2018, Iconic Site at The Bentway.

Iconic Site was created as a response to the situation of many cities, where massive waves of new developments have changed the face of our urban environment, often replacing the character of the place with hollow words and meaningless sentences. Originally developed as a commission for the Centre for the Urban Built Environment in Manchester, the work has been re-imagined for its new context, with the iconography and typography of signs found on North American roadsides. Here, in the dense heart of Toronto, where a two-decade long development boom has radically transformed both the cityscape and the lexicon used to describe it, the work takes on new relevance.

The Bentway is a new public space and programming platform that is both of the city and about the city. Through the lens of arts, culture, and recreation we explore the changing landscape of Toronto and urbanism on a global scale.

The Bentway is a member of the High Line Network, an international network of projects that transform underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes.

Text from The Bentway

Urbane Künste Ruhr: Arts in Urban Space 2012-2017

Coinciding with the conclusion of Katja Aßmann's artistic direction of Urbane Künste Ruhr, Kerber Verlag has published Urbane Künste Ruhr ARTS IN URBAN SPACE 2012 - 2017 (edited by Katja Aßmann, Dr. Vera Battis-Reese, Lukas Crepaz, Florian Heilmeyer). It offers a multifaceted retrospective of the art projects initiated and realized by Urbane Künste Ruhr and discuses curatorial practice and the intention to combine art and city, with contributions, essays and interviews by and with participants illuminate the basic themes and methods of Urbane Künste Ruhr.

Sans façon participated in Urban Lights Ruhr in 2014, 2015, and 2017 and for Urbane Künste Ruhr ARTS IN URBAN SPACE 2012 - 2017 we contributed an essay speaking to the experience of co-curating in the 2015 edition.

ISSUED BY
Katja Aßmann
Dr. Vera Battis-Reese
Lukas Crepaz
Heilmeyer

Find more publication details here, click bookstore for information on obtaining a copy.

You Are Here in San Francisco

You Are Here will be flying in San Francisco this weekend, and periodically for the next couple of months, to celebrate the opening of the San Francisco Art Institute new campus at Fort Mason.

Join us for the free weekend-long Opening Spectacle on November 10, 7–10pm, and November 11, 12–5pm.

An Audience of One

Last week was the opening of An Audience of One for Urban Lights Ruhr. It will be on the Forumplatz in Marl until October 29th.

Thank you again to all the people made it possible, especially to the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and all the generous people who shared their hands to record the clapping. 

Odd Sympathies re-enactment

We were delighted to re-enact one of the walk from Odd Sympathies 10 years later for the occasion of the book launch Walking Through Social Research. Although the time, season, day were not the ones for which the composition was created, the walk was interestingly similar with some of the sounds still coming in on cue.

Walking Through Social Research is edited by Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor (Routledge 2017). Charlotte Bates is a Sociologist at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Alex Rhys-Taylor is a Sociologist at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London.