[spectre] UnoccupiedTerritories - call for participation

[Attila Tordai]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Unoccupied Territories

Inhabited zones and overlapping mind-made constructions in our everyday life
=93In spite of its ubiquity, everyday space is nearly invisible in the 
professional discourse of the city... (...) These spaces exist 
physically somewhere in the junctures between private, commercial and 
domestic.=94 (Margaret Crawford, =93Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space 
and Private Life=94)
=93Unoccupied Territories=94 is the first event of the cultural exchange 
program =93Her und Hin=94 organized by K&S Gallery, Berlin. The project 
deals with the creation of psychological spaces, and poses the 
question whether and how we occupy public or private space determined 
by urban planning. =93Non-places" appear around us day by day - spaces 
that are non-specific, could be anywhere without a possibility to 
connect with. It has to be noted though that the same space can be 
fully and intimately inhabited by a person although it will remain 
alien to another person. Furthermore, an area that is familiar to a 
local person might feel very hostile to an immigrant and vice versa. 
Perhaps we all inhabit different personal spaces in various ways.

We are collecting contributions, short personal interpretations - 
from writers, architects, scientists, social workers, scholars, 
fellows, emigrants and ordinary people - that investigate issues of 
=93territories=94 in a social and cultural sense: how occupied or 
unoccupied territories are perceived, in which directions can they be 
extended as a discourse?

Please submit texts between 1 sentence and 10 pages, and sent it to 
the following address:

Galerie K&S
Linienstr. 156 /157
10115 Berlin
or via e-mail to: k-s@dland.de, atordai@mail.dntcj.ro

Deadline: March 26, 2003, 23:45h.

The selected texts will be printed and presented in Galerie K&S, 
Berlin, from April 11 to May 31 as the first part of the =93Unoccupied 
Territories=94 exhibition. The submissions can be in any languages, but 
NO text will be translated. All materials are going to be published 
in a catalogue at the end of the year.
The project is curated by Attila Tordai-S. (from Cluj, Romania), 
guest curator of K&S.

Galerie K&S is an initiative of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 
and K=FCnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

The international exchange program =93Her und Hin=94 manifests itself as 
a culture transfer and will be accompanied by art magazines. Art 
administrators, curators and artists from Eastern Europe, will have 
the opportunity to get connected with the networks of both artists=92 
houses (RESIDENCY PROGRAMS) and K&S Gallery, to meet their fellows 
and other artists and to work on collaborative projects. The 
exhibitions, symposium, discussions etc., resulting from this 
exchange, will first take place in Berlin and then in the respective 
partner=92s city. Miriam Bers is the program coordinator.

The international exchange program =93Her und Hin=94 is friendly 
supported by the Allianz Kulturstiftung.