Current & Past Events
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion with Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, and Stefan Römer
Differentiated Neighbourhoods of New Belgrade
colourschool’s Brown Bag events comprise a series of lunch time discussions focused on a given subject or range of subjects. Participants may bring their lunch or take a brown bag provided by colourschool.
For this session, the artists discuss the project Differentiated Neighbourhoods of New Belgrade, which they participated in. The project explores different connotations of the term neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural, and social context, as well as analyzes the historical development and actual dynamics of urban transformations of New Belgrade neighbourhoods.
See http://www.nbhood.org/ for more details.
- hosts:
- Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber and Stefan Römer
- date & time:
- March 7th, 2008 at 4 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Since 1993, Vancouver and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have collaborated on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations, and related visual politics. Their works focus on emergent sites and overlaps of architecture, urban developments, communications systems, and modes of artistic and cultural production as mediated through photography, video, and new media technologies. Projects like Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela, Live Like This! and CITYtransformer 02, engage with conflictual moments and sites of globalization, as they are materialized in architecture. Dealing with architecture as a frame for spatial meaning, the works of Bitter/Weber are at the interface of architecture, new media technologies, and systems of representation.
In 2004, Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber formed the urban research collective Urban Subjects US.
Since 2007, the artists have been represented by Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna.
See http://www.lot.at for further projects.
Stefan Römer is professor of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and works conceptually between artistic practice and critical theory. His works and essays are widely exhibited and published. His background is in activism and documentarism with the tendency to de-conceptualize traditional epistemological canons and dissolve academic subjects.
In addition to speaking at colourschool, Stefan presents the following activities while in Vancouver:
Tues, March 4, 12:30 pm: Distinguished Visiting Artists Talk at SFU, 330-611 Alexander St.
Wed, March 5, 7.30 pm: Conceptual Paradise Screening at Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St.
Event Images & Documentation
NEW & The Nonaligned World in Differentiated Neighbourhoods of New Belgrade 2007. Image courtesy of Bitter / Weber