Exhibition
URBAN INTERMEDIA: CITY, ARCHIVE, NARRATIVE
Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative and Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Curators: Eve Blau and Robert Gerard Pietrusko - April 15 to May 9, 2018 | Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS
Eve Blau, co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative and co-curator of the exhibition will talk about the themes of the exhibition with a special focus on Berlin.
Urban Intermedia emphasizes the importance of communication and collaboration across professional boundaries and academic disciplines. Each practice and discipline produces its own forms of knowledge, but also has its “blind spots” that can only be approached through other frameworks. Those blind spots are the focus of both the investigation and the exhibition.
The research projects in Berlin, Boston, Istanbul, and Mumbai serve as “portals” into three key themes that structure the exhibition: the interdependence of the planned and the unplanned, formal and informal practices; the urban imprint of migration and mobility, modalities of inclusion and exclusion; and the interrelation of nature and technology, urban ecologies and infrastructures.
Special Project: A photo project by German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski will be part of the exhibition in Mumbai.
About the project - April 24 | CSMVS
Mumbai Suburbia: Urban Environment in Crisis
Mumbai’s Suburbia counts as one of the largest urban sprawls on the planet. Everyday 700 new vehicles are registered, everyday 500 families move into the megalopolis. The majority of these house themselves in slums. While in the west the term suburbia is synonymous with boring leafy streets, in Mumbai it is an almost dystopian environment littered with garbage, suffocated in fumes. The overpopulated streets are lined with an eclectic mix of derelict buildings, high rises, slums and huge billboards. The population density is 22000 per square kilometer. The photographs of this series have been taken in October, November and December 2017.
Peter Bialobrzeski studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer for a local paper in his native Wolfsburg/Germany. He travelled extensively in Asia before he went to study photography and design at the Folkwangschule Essen and the London College of Printing. Within the last 16 years he has published sixteen monographic books, "XXXholy", "NEONTIGERS", "HEIMAT", "Lost in Transition" , "Paradise Now", "Case Study Homes", "Informal Arrangements", "The Raw and the Cooked", „Nail Houses“, „Cairo Diary“ , „Athens Diary“, „Wolfsburg Diary“, „Taipei Diary“, „Kochi Diary“ and recently „Die zweite Heimat“ as well as “Beirut Diary”.
His work has been exhibited in Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia. He won several awards including the prestigious World Press Photo Award 2003 and 2010. In 2012 he was honored with the Dr. Erich Salomon Award by the German Society of Photographers (DGPh).
Details
Coomaraswamy Hall
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS)
159-161, Mahatma Gandhi Road
Fort
400032 Mumbai
Curators: Eve Blau and Robert Gerard Pietrusko - April 15 to May 9, 2018 | Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS
Eve Blau, co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative and co-curator of the exhibition will talk about the themes of the exhibition with a special focus on Berlin.Urban Intermedia emphasizes the importance of communication and collaboration across professional boundaries and academic disciplines. Each practice and discipline produces its own forms of knowledge, but also has its “blind spots” that can only be approached through other frameworks. Those blind spots are the focus of both the investigation and the exhibition.
The research projects in Berlin, Boston, Istanbul, and Mumbai serve as “portals” into three key themes that structure the exhibition: the interdependence of the planned and the unplanned, formal and informal practices; the urban imprint of migration and mobility, modalities of inclusion and exclusion; and the interrelation of nature and technology, urban ecologies and infrastructures.
Special Project: A photo project by German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski will be part of the exhibition in Mumbai.
About the project - April 24 | CSMVS
Mumbai Suburbia: Urban Environment in CrisisMumbai’s Suburbia counts as one of the largest urban sprawls on the planet. Everyday 700 new vehicles are registered, everyday 500 families move into the megalopolis. The majority of these house themselves in slums. While in the west the term suburbia is synonymous with boring leafy streets, in Mumbai it is an almost dystopian environment littered with garbage, suffocated in fumes. The overpopulated streets are lined with an eclectic mix of derelict buildings, high rises, slums and huge billboards. The population density is 22000 per square kilometer. The photographs of this series have been taken in October, November and December 2017.
Peter Bialobrzeski studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer for a local paper in his native Wolfsburg/Germany. He travelled extensively in Asia before he went to study photography and design at the Folkwangschule Essen and the London College of Printing. Within the last 16 years he has published sixteen monographic books, "XXXholy", "NEONTIGERS", "HEIMAT", "Lost in Transition" , "Paradise Now", "Case Study Homes", "Informal Arrangements", "The Raw and the Cooked", „Nail Houses“, „Cairo Diary“ , „Athens Diary“, „Wolfsburg Diary“, „Taipei Diary“, „Kochi Diary“ and recently „Die zweite Heimat“ as well as “Beirut Diary”.
His work has been exhibited in Europe, USA, Asia, Africa and Australia. He won several awards including the prestigious World Press Photo Award 2003 and 2010. In 2012 he was honored with the Dr. Erich Salomon Award by the German Society of Photographers (DGPh).
Details
Coomaraswamy Hall
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS)
159-161, Mahatma Gandhi Road
Fort
400032 Mumbai