| Title or content of the project: City beats |
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Artist(s) / Organization(s): Berit Fischer
Media(s): Video
Date: 2008-3-26
Venue(s): Wu Jiao Chang 800 art space |
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Description:
Everywhere where there is interaction between a place, a time and an expenditure of energy, there is rhythm. Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis.
Rhythm concerns itself with issues of change, repetition, identity, contrast and continuity. Similar to the implications of rhythm, the pulse of a metropolis is pervaded by regulated recurring patterns and repetitions of behaviors, habits and urban rituals. Prescriptive codes that define daily life correlate with micro geographies in which the human body defines the social and biological rhythm.
Exploring the social, cultural and physical dimensions of the city, the artists in city beats apply their own sets of rules. General frameworks are decomposed and re-configured by the artist's individual tonalities. The constructed mechanizations of life and belief system, often taken for granted, are drawn into scrutiny.
City Beats employs video to compile a cacophony of glances at non events within the urban commonplace and offers new ways of looking at the structured relationships between time and place, private and public, framework and content; it creates a temporal look at urban space and the human condition within it.
Curated by Berit Fischer. |
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