Urban Interventions
Urban Interventions aims at inviting artists from Europe to explore various urban landscapes in different cities. It creates, within the framework of artist residency programs and activities, a platform for interaction and exchange both on a local level, as well as within a broader, inter-regional spectrum.
The project includes artists from Liverpool-UK, Dortmund-GE, Tallinn-EE, Istanbul-TR in bi-lateral exchange with Linz-AT developing urban art projects within the span of 3 to 6 month residencies at one of the project partner cities.
Artists from Linz will engage with Liverpool Biennial’s multi-annual programme in North Liverpool and the Wirral over a period of six months. The artists will not have a studio but work directly with people in the areas of the neighbourhood programme. Documentation summarizing the outcomes of the “Urban interventions” project will be presented in Liverpool in September 2010. From July-December 2009, Karl-heinz Klopf has been invited to work around Everton Park, from January 2010 Peter Arlt will be in residence with a focus on the Wirral.
In exchange four artists from Liverpool will be hosted for three months in Atelierhaus Salzamt (International Studio House Linz) a recently renovated 300-year old building beside the Danube. Artists from the partner cities and Linz itself will be also in residence. The first artist Emily Speed was in Linz from July-September, followed from October-December by Dan Simpkins and Penny Whitehead .
Project partners:
• Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE
• Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildende Künste, Berlin, DE
• Foundation Talinn 2011, EE
• Platfrom Garanti, Istanbul. TR
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.:
