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Urban Soundscape LLP suggest to be a company which conducts research and develops and produces acoustic design, sound art projects and sound design of public or commercial spaces. Posters promoting the company’s loosely defined services and are juxtaposed with different soundscapes by Youssef Tabti. The aim of the project is to visit different locations in Istanbul or toher cities in order to investigate specific sound and urban design activity related to each place. More Posters.
The 'Ads for Urbanism' come to extistence for the exhibition ‚Becoming Istanbul‘, which was planed by the Deutsche Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt a.M., in co-operation with Garanti Galeri, Istanbul. The video clips are integrated as pop-upping advertisements in a virtual glossary concerning the city Istanbul. The stock of data of the glossary consists of texts, sounds, fotos and films of different authors.
My Ads are promoting aspects of urbanism, but is remains unclear for who or for which product. Within the clips textual and grafical fragments of urban developmant and architecture is cited, which is refering to garden cities movements, the türkish social hounsing project TOKI and companies, which are producing prefabricated buildings. The fragments are confronted with video images of the city, which are kept like fotos, but with tiny movements, indicating that the shown details are cutouts of a larger context.
For Hamburgs‘ young district Neu-Allermöhe West an archeological excavation is put on. Within a pit a part of a wall of an alleged ancient and foundered settlement is excavated. The Form of the oversized bricks refering to the actual design of the quarter and so they are dealing with aspects of tradition and history, historiography and identities.
In Germany Bruno Taut was celebrated for his visionary and utopian architecture. But also as socialist he was much vaunted, because his engagement for achievements concerning subsidised housing. For the latter aspect he was often criticized complaining that these developments were too opulent for ‚simple people‘. He tried to conjoin socialism with art. Painting and poetry should help to spring up a utopian and social architecture.
With my video installation I want to trace several notions and images of Taut in connection with his father figure, the expressionist Paul Scheerbart. I contrast these ideas with pictures of today’s Istanbul to where Taut emigrated in the 1930s. In addition, the megalopolis Istanbul is well known for its multitude of develomenmts, planned ones as well as unintended urban developments sprawling in an uncontrolled manner.
It is interesting how Frank O. Gehry designs his
architecture as a product in order for it to be used by others - e.g. municipalities - to have an effect on levels very different to the merely architectural one.
To me a prime example for this is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao: The interplay of architecture, of a concept of urban development to overcome an industrial crisis and of the Guggenheim Museum, which also sought to stimulate an economic reawakening, is very complex. The project was in a specific manner successful for each party involved and the concept has been imitated in several other places: Many other cities aspire to recreate the Bilbao Effect or have already managed to achieve it. Video (German)
The ‘Klassenfoto’ (class picture) exhibtion took place before the schoolhouse was actually vacated by the original occupants. Wolfgang Krause organized this and other shows in the building in order to at least temporarily forstall its economic exploitation by the new investors.
The show ‘Klassenfoto’ was intended to reflect the conditions of everyday life in that school while it was still a fact of the present. My work focused on selected structures between school, students and teachers to reflect their process of negotiation and the options of displacement of structures. Dokumentation video. Soundbite with text (german only) at Galerie o zwei.