“We Declare“: Spaces of Housing
Vancouver City Council Chambers, Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber, 2008
“We Declare”: Spaces of Housing
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber
Exhibition: September 5 - 27, 2008
Opening Reception: September 5, 7 - 10pm
The Vancouver and Vienna based artists, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber present “We Declare”: Spaces of Housing, an exhibition that addresses the sites and institutions where decisions and declarations regarding housing are made (ranging from local communities, to the provincial capital, and up to the United Nations).
The site-specific installation brings these spaces of symbolic and real power into the gallery through large-scale photo-based images mounted directly onto the walls. As part of their practice investigating the dynamics of cities and the potentials of architecture, Bitter/Weber have realized photo and videoworks, such as Caracas Hecho en Venezuela and Differentiated Neighborhoods of New Belgrade, across Europe and the Americas.
“We Declare” launches the platform Vancouver Flying University initiated by independent journalist Am Johal in collaboration with writer Jeff Derksen and Urban Subjects.
Based on the concept of mobile seminars and talks that Hungarian and Polish dissidents used to skirt state authorities, the talks consider the current context of gentrification and economic distortion of Vancouver’s inner city in the lead up to the Olympics. The program includes a lecture by urbanist Neil Smith; a talk and workshop by Berlin-based critic and curator Jochen Becker; a lecture by Omid Memarian, an Iranian journalist and blogger based in the USA.
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