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The Echo Chamber: a reading on listening, with Luke Williams and Natasha Soobramanien
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Wednesday May 9 2012, 19.00 hrs Location: Piet Zwart Institute Address: Karel Doormanhof 45 Rotterdam The [...]
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Student Jasper Griepink exhibits at Roodkapje
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Currently our Master of Fine Art student Jasper Griepink is showing his work at Roodkapje [...]
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Psychedelic Noir
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Wednesday April 18 2012, 19:30 hrs Location: Piet Zwart Institute Address: Karel Doormanhof 45 Rotterdam Psychedelic Noir An [...]
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a project in collaboration with Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels
January-April 2003

Legal Space/Public Space was a project investigating the characteristics of the public domain and the possibilities of acting and intervening in it.

This research project addressed the rules and regulations governing public domain. It looked at artistic and architectural interventions that make use of the gaps and holes in the legal system in order to open up a space for use and possibility beyond the determining regulations and restrictions; and at interventions focusing on the excessiveness of planning and regulation surrounding public spaces, most often resulting in their dysfunctionality as a public sphere. Legal Space/Public Space posed its questions about the public domain, civil disobedience and freedom from a multidisciplinary perspective, including art, architecture, sociology, philosophy, activism and jurisdiction.

Legal Space/Public Space was an initiative by Etablissement d’en Face Projects in Brussels. Started in October 2002, it was developed as a collaborative research project through workshops, seminars, public interventions, a publication, and a documentation centre. In this framework, curator Eva Gonzalez-Sancho (Spain/Belgium) developed a thematic project for the Piet Zwart Institute, consisting of a series of city walks and working weeks in Brussels, as well as a symposium, held in Brussels on March 21-23, 2003.

Contributors to the Legal Space/Public Space symposium were the collectives Citymine(d) (Belgium), Agency (Belgium) and MA.AN (Netherlands); artists Lara Almarcegui (Spain), Santiago Cirugeda (Spain), Nathalie Mertens (Belgium), Antoni Muntadas (Spain/USA), El Perro (Spain), Ivo Provoost & Sandra Denicolai (Belgium), and Tristan Wibault (Belgium); a rchite cts Lieven De Boeck (Belgium), Luc Deleu (Belgium), Marc Godts (Belgium), and Carole Schmit (Belgium); urbanist Kai Dolata (Germany); philosophers Lieven de Cauter (Belgium), Benedicte Jacobs (Belgium) and Pierre-Arnaud Perrouty (Belgium); and lawyers Katrien Laenen (Belgium) and Anne Maesschalk (Belgium).

City walks were conducted by Lieven de Boeck, Citymine(d) and Tristan Wibault.
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