[spectre] rePLACE BEIRUT call for participation

[何穎雅 elaine wing-ah ho]

www.re-place.info


The rituals of everyday life trace regular paths along streets and 
through buildings, organising the solids and voids of the built 
environment into narratives and patterns of association. Complicated by 
memory and social rituals, our experience of the city is of a dynamic 
place, a stage for public performances and private tragedies, of 
significant moments and the incredibly mundane. The habits, rituals, and 
actions of its population, the lived experiences within the city define 
it as something that is always current, always in constant, random movement.

rePLACE BEIRUT begins by a public invitation to reconsider the city as 
an active process of documenting time and place inseparable from our 
everyday, lived experience. Your participation is requested as a 
singular contribution towards an alternative, collective understanding 
of how the city both literally and metaphorically vibrates, or where 
'the beaten track' runs rich with/counter to personal knowledge, memory 
and cultural myth.

Please join us in retreading Beirut with the rePLACE project. Map out a 
frequent route from your day-to-day life, record the regular patterns 
and particular moments associated with your journey. Simply follow the 
instructions <http://beirut.re-place.info> to upload your route as well 
as text, images, video and/or sound documenting observations and 
discoveries made along the way.

Through the various stages of the project, rePLACE seeks to provide a 
way to understand the city, not only through its built spaces, but in 
the ways its residents are interacting with it in their daily lives — 
the routes we follow and the moments where these routes cross, overlap 
or run tangent to each other. This is foremost a reconsideration of 
history and image-making outside of our traditional understandings of 
these terms, where forms of heritage preservation can go beyond passive 
historicisation and generate living processes to actively celebrate the 
city-in-flux.

Participate now by submitting your own route online at 
http://beirut.re-place.info.
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**WORKSHOP // **BEIRUT, **APRIL 2011*

The online collection of routes will be the jumping off point to 
(re)experience the city via the stories and routes of the people living 
here, creating a series of visual and historical investigations into the 
placeness of the city's inhabitants. Between April 1-10, workshop 
participants will follow the submitted routes, documenting and recording 
with video, photography and sound their observations as led through the 
words of our guides, and selected points from certain routes will be 
chosen as 'landmarks' for further research.

The workshop will take place at 98 weeks research/project space 
<http://98weeks.blogspot.com> and will be accompanied by a public 
program including discussions and screenings. Please check the website 
soon for more information or e-mail us for more information. If you are 
interested to participate in the workshop, please sign up with your 
name, occupation and a brief statement of interest at: 
/mail at re-place.info/. Participation is free but limited to 15 persons.
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rePLACE is a project initiated in 2007 by PROGRAM 
<http://www.programonline.de> and Transit Lounge 
<http://www.transitlounge.org/>. rePLACE BERLIN and rePLACE BEIRUT are 
supported in 2011 by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for 
the Dialogue between Cultures <http://www.euromedalex.org>, the Arab 
Image Foundation <http://www.fai.org.lb>, PROGRAM 
<http://www.programonline.de> and Prince Claus Fund 
<http://www.princeclausfund.org/><http://www.princeclausfund.org/>for 
Culture and Development <http://www.princeclausfund.org/>. rePLACE 
BEIJING is supported by HomeShop <http://www.homeshop.org.cn>. For more 
information please visit www.re-place.info or contact: 
///mail at re-place.info/