Lecture and presentation of the Berlin art project by Matthias Einhoff on the occasion of the launch of the Observatory of Cultural Mediations (OMEC).
17.01.2020 | 13h - 18h | Phi Centre, 407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal
The event is in French.
The event is wheelchair accessible and for people with reduced mobility (an entrance with a ramp is accessible at the back of the building).
If you need LSQ translation or whispered translation (English-French), or if you have any questions regarding the accessibility of the event, please contact omec@ucs.inrs.ca.
For more information regarding access to the venue, please visit the Phi Centre's website: https://phi-centre.com/nous-joindre/.
Free entry, please register here (before January 8): https://forms.gle/YtUuuNDohFQbBKaP6
HAUS DER STATISTIK
Center for Refugees, Social, Artistic and Creative Activities
Together with Raumlabor Berlin, AbBa and the Berlin Atelierbeauftragte, the ZK/U has initiated a working-group to save and revitalize the ‚Haus der Statistik‘ (‚House of Statistics‘) at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. The original GDR-structure of the building with more than 40.000 square meters of usable space, shall be turned into affordable living space for refugees and working space for the arts, culture and education. Meeting areas, co-living and co-working approaches create mutual synergies of integration between the protagonists and the neighborhood. The house could become a prototype representing an innovative and inclusive practice by bringing together culture, education and social engagement under one roof.
Matthias Einhoff, is co-founder and director of the Center for Arts and Urbanistics (ZK/U) an interdisciplinary hub for urban research and artistic practice in a former cargo-station in Berlin. He is leading the development of artistic and research-based projects at the interface of urban discourses and local practices.
As a founding member of the artist collective KUNSTrePUBLIK, he is working as an artist, curator, researcher and activist.
www.zku-berlin.org /
www.kunstrepublik.de /
www.hausderstatistik.org
Programme:
13:00 – 16:00 Seminar PRAXIS
Urban and cultural communities: new spaces for cultural mediation?
The practices and practices of cultural mediation are diverse and involve different currents of collective action, cultural intervention and artistic creation. The seminar aims to examine this new phenomenon of cultural and urban communities and its overlaps with cultural mediation.
Urban and cultural communities
Lecture/talk moderated by Anouk Bélanger, with Lisiane Lomazzi, researcher at CRICIS and doctoral candidate in communication sciences at UQAM.
Project Haus der Statistik (Berlin)
Presentation/lecture by Berlin-based artist Matthias Einhoff (in English).
Local communities in Montreal
Discussion of case studies, presented by Nicolas Ouellet, teacher at Bâtiment 7 ceramics workshop and master student in communication at UQAM.
16.00 – 18.00 Uhr Reception and project start of the observatory
Presentation of the programme, the funded projects and the winners of the scholarships and presentation of the new website.
The event is presented in collaboration with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS).
ABOUT OMEC
The Observatory of Cultural Mediation (OMEC) aims to contribute to the promotion of knowledge about cultural mediation practices and their socio-political significance by acting as a platform for observation, research, knowledge mobilization and transfer, training and networking for the academic and professional community. The establishment of the Observatory is the culmination of eleven years of partnership-based research conducted within the Groupe de recherche sur la médiation culturelle (GRMC). Today, the team represents the main research center for cultural mediation in Quebec and is positioned as a leading figure in research on this topic in the Francophone world
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