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Umeå – European Capital of Culture 2014
S-NOW apersonalformofarchitecture
S-NOW apersonalformofarchitecture was a part of project "City of Winter" curated by Dan Lestander during opening week of inauguration Umeå – European Capital of Culture 2014.
Initiators and supporters: Umeå2014 and Polish Institute in Stokholm
Collaboration between Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities and Umeå School of Architecture - The Laboratory for Sustainable Architectural Production.
prof. Mirosław Bałka
as. Anna Jochymek
Swedish representation – prof. Walter Unterrainer
special thanks for Anna Tomaszewsa Vice-Director of Polish Institute in Stockholm:)
AS LONG AS WE WANT:
Alexander Åkerman, Jonathan Davies, Albin Grind, Epp Jerlei, Katarzyna Kosieradzka, Justyna Łoś, Felicia Minicz, Bharat Patel, Maciej Rudzin, Julia Staniszewska, Hanna Stiegeler, Chris Voss, Ida Wänstedt, Björn Ylinenpää
In the autumn of 2013, Apberget was removed so Utopia could be connected to the water mains and open on schedule. What will happen to Rådhustorget, and if Apberget will be replaced, is still uncertain.
Colloquially referred to as Apberget, ‘the monkey mountain,’ is a nickname derived from people’s interaction with the site and their sitting – like monkeys – upon it, basking in the summer sun. Originally intended as a speakers’ tribunal, and effectively acting as a political rallying point throughout its history, the structure also became a focal point within the city and a recognisable location for people to sit, socialise and meet.
When students of Umeå School of Architecture and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts met, an effigy to Apberget rose in snow and ice in Vänortsparken.
At 15:00 on Saturday 1st February, a sound action will take place in the enclosed space of ice on the new Apberget. A distorted visual connection to the performance enacted within the frozen walls offers a spectre of actions and events past.
BARBARA:
Hanna Linkowska, Magdalena Łazarczyk, Beata Małyska, Marta Mielcarek, Michalina Musielak, Agnieszka M. Nowak, Monika Skomra, Agnieszka Sobczak, Mikołaj Sobczak, Nguyen Quynh Trang
BARBARA comes from the Swedish „Bara bra” meaning „Only good”. A response to „How are you?”
BARBARA will walk through the city, marking the public space: a line on the snow like an architectual sketch on a map.
BARBARA materializes our observations of Umeå.
BARBARA can be followed for three days over the Opening Weekend.
You can be our witness.
THE MOHICANS:
Sebastian Krok, Piotr Paczkowski, Marcin Romaniuk
In native language: people of the waters that are never still.
Raw blocks of ice are carriers of information, used as a transparent wall. The message is formed as a code, with a visual expression of digital noise. Applied using spray, it recalls a primitive meaning of a graffiti manifesto. The information is readable only through digital devices and requires active involvement from a viewer. The code is vulnerable to passage of time and will become unreadable at some point.
The project debates the transformation of Umeå for 2014 Capital of Culture and its very neat public spaces. It gives an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and durability of culture in the context of nature and constant social changes.
WHILE IN PARK:
Magdalena Angulska, Krzysztof Bagiński, Anna Bajorek, Marcin Bednarczyk, Adam Borowski, Norbert Delman, Zuzanna Golińska, Michał Huszcza, Marta Kachniarz, Anna Kasperska, Anna Kosarewska, Tymon Nogalski, Charlotte Valletta, Anna Israelsson, Peter Gabert
A game and performative action in the Friendship Park. Twenty people will work with twenty tools on ten blocks, five of ice and five of snow. The action explores relationships, not just between tools, ice and snow, but more importantly relationships between people.
There will be a performance on Saturday by the artists.
On Sunday we invite the public to take part in the action.