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| 22nd November 2003 12:00 - 18:00 Het Poortgebouw Rotterdam |
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CIVIC TV will be a high summit of cultural engineers, anarchitects, urban explorers, peripatic hedonists, squatters, graffiti aficionados, street-artists, generative psychogeographers, space hijackers, folly-builders, invisible city excavators, collaborative mapping gurus and transdimensional tourists for the years to come. CIVIC TV: WHY? Dutch city planning & architecture is famous over the entire world for it's progressiveness. Over the years, Rotterdam has been the city where these agencies have been given carte blanche to build their most daring projects. Meanwhile, Dutch politics has taken a sharp rightwing turn, a turn that climaxed in Rotterdam through He who cannot be named: the Almighty Bald One. These currents intersect; without doubt Rotterdam can be singled out as the Dutch city where surveillance technology, architectural encoded crime prevention & a social hygiene enforced by a zero-tolerance policy, has left the city with a sublime, ever growing, skyline & an increasingly militarised public space. CIVIC TV: SOCIAL FICTION? Radical architecture is not that radical as the would-be-radicals like to believe. CIVIC TV offers a platform of alternatives, of paths towards a perspective that brings together those who want to reconsider the city as it is. We feel that the city is in need of new uses, of a new frame that captures it's essence as a place of human interaction, as an aggregator of the fantastic & the unexpected. We take as self-evident that the city is in need of a new mythology. We city inhabitants need new stories to make sense of our changing environment. CIVIC TV aims to present the building stones from which this new mythology can be constructed.
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THE CIVIC TV BKOR REPORT OPEN ISSUES INTERVIEW CIVIC TV QUESTIONAIRRES IMAGES FROM CIVIC TV
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Confirmed suspects: Olof van de Wal [platformgras] Wilfried Hou Je Bek [psychogeography] Autonoom Centrum De Hondenkoekjesfabriek [performance] Saul Alberts (remote) 2012 Architecten [recyclicity] Derk Reneman [virtueel kruispunt] Studio Popcorn [mediapolis] De Ruimte / Hieke Pars [boekpresentation: Interfering: A travel Guide] www.vrijeruimte.nl [easy city] Siebe Thissen [gotham city] Karoly Toth [plugin city-state] Robert B [immaterial architecture] |
CIVIC TV SCHEDULE 12:00 Gathering/Introduction Kop van Walk (downstairs in Kroeg)
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CIVIC TV is organised by WHY & socialfiction.org Address: Stieltjesstraat 38, Rotterdam
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KOP VAN WALK The only valid psychogeographical criterion on which a city should be judged is that it must, as Kevin Lynch wrote "invite its viewers to explore the world". After all, psychogeographical walks are not staged to admire the quality of façades or to complain about what is supposedly wrong or deteriorated. Psychogeography is interested in the capabilities of the urban environment to evoke the sublime. The sublime as defined by Edmund Burke in 1757: "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite to idea of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotions which the mind is capable of feeling" The sublime emotion to explore the world , not as a tourist, but as a traveller willing to give up anything in order to find the North-West passage, is what the "Kop van Walk" experiment will try to find in the surroundings of the Poortgebouw.This walk is the outdoor event during CIVIC TV The psychogeographical experience of the desire to explore, as suggested by the buildings, the bridges, the water, etc will be mapped with PML (Psychogeographical Markup Language). more information about psychogeography on SocialFiction.org
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