Urban Research at Directors Lounge 2012

<body> <h4><b>Urban Research:</b><br> <b>Artists Exploring Contemporary Urban Space</b></h4> <p>The program Urban Research, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2012, reaches beyond the genre "city films". Contemporary artists are engaged in local politics, they are concerned with specific urban problems and developments, and they are directly interacting with the public with performances and public interventions. Due to rapid changes of urban environment, place is no more a reliable urban structure connected with consistency and collective memory. Place must be reinvented and newly defined over and over, and this does not only apply for spaces of temporary use. Public space in the sense of social interchange and interaction — as well as just a space free to use — is not a given opportunity any more, which can be taken for granted. International artists address these themes and issues with a variety of forms, experimental, documentary, abstract, and narrative; they intervene directly or they show there visions of public space, and a new urban landscape.</p> <p><a href="http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" title="Directors Lounge Program"><img src="images/orangeSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Link to" title="Link to">  Directors Lounge 2012</a><br> <a href="http://www.naherholung-sternchen.de/contact.php" target="_blank" title="Contakt und map for Naherholung Sternchen"><img src="images/orangeSignFwd.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0" alt="Link to" title="Link to">  Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte</a><br> directy behind cinema International und Rathaus Mitte, off U-Bahn Schillingstr. </p> </body>