[spectre] Lecture Saskia Sassen - Public Interventions, De Balie 18 nov. + live web cast

[Eric Kluitenberg]

A  N  N  O  U  N  C  E  M  E  N  T

Saskia Sassen: Public Interventions
The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition

De Balie, Amsterdam
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Start: 20.30 hrs (CET)
http://www.debalie.nl/media

Live-stream webcast:
www.debalie.nl/live

This year’s SKOR lecture (Fourndation for Art and Public Space) is  
delivered by Saskia Sassen, who will talk about the ‘making’ of  
public space by means of architectural and artistic interventions.  
The evening includes the presentation of Open 11, which takes hybrid  
space as its theme and includes an essay contributed by Sassen.

Human experience is threatened by the massive architecture of world  
cities and the density of infrastructures – digital and otherwise –  
that exist to serve international capital and the global economy.  
Sassen argues that there is a need for the production of subversive  
narratives as a counterbalance to this, to make the local and what  
has been silenced manifest and to generate new forms of ‘modest  
public spaces’.

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University  
of Chicago and Professor at the London School of Economics. She has  
gained worldwide acclaim for studies such as The Global City and  
Cities in a World Economy. Her most recent publication is Territory,  
Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton  
University Press, 2006).

Panellists:
Arnold Reijndorp, urban sociologist
Willem van Weelden, artist and theorist
Moderator:
Bahram Sadeghi

Language: English

Organised by: SKOR / Open / De Balie

SKOR is the Netherlands Foundation for Art and Public Space
http://www.skor.nl

Open, a cahier about art and the public domain, is published twice a  
year by NAi Publishers in association with skor.
http://www.opencahier.nl


Open 11, “hybrid space”, investigates how wireless media mobilise and  
transform public space.
http://www.naipublishers.nl/art/open11_e.html
With contributions by Howard Rheingold, Saskia Sassen, Frans Vogelaar/ 
Elizabeth Sikiardi, Noortje Marres, Koen Brams/Dirk Pultau, Marion  
Hamm, Esther Polak, De Geuzen, Kristina Andersen, Arie Altena, Daniel  
van der Velden, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Max Bruinsma, and Assia Kraan.
Guest-editor: Eric Kluitenberg


ADDRESS:
De Balie,
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10,
Amsterdam
http://www.debalie.nl/serviceartikel.jsp?articleid=47985

RESERVATIONS:
De Balie t 020-5535100,
or via: www.debalie.nl/agenda

Admission:
12,50 (students: 7,50)