Under the title “Urbanities – art and public space in Pakistan,” the collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Pakistan and the Lahore Biennale Foundation will incite discursive and artistic contributions and interventions related to Pakistan's controversial and contested urban space, recollecting Henri Lefebvre´s “right to the city” for critical discussion, and contribute to a trajectory leading to the Lahore Biennale in 2017 in a series of events. By way of artistic interventions and critical research possibilities, spheres and impediments of public space and its citizens' engagement with Lahore and Karachi will be explored and negotiated.
The objective of “Urbanities” is a critical exploration of the urban and its peculiarities and possibilities under the premise of individual artistic work and research approaches. Different formats like workshops, artistic research, an artists' residency, and a consecutive programme of talks, discussions and exhibitions slated for the end of the year, will reflect on the current definitions of mapping, community and practice, the usage of space, urban spatiality and visuality, the global, local and glocal in relation to the city in flux, on stagnation, progress, artivism and action, on accustomed and contested space, on environmentalism and public art, among other urban phenomena.
Partner: Lahore Biennale Foundation
http://lahorebiennale.org
Artist Residency: Call for Applications
As part of the project series “Urbanities,”
two Germany-based artists will be given the opportunity to engage with Karachi and Lahore, respectively, as a site of urban exploration and artistic research in a living & work space residency.
In collaboration with the Lahore Biennale Foundation and Vasl, Pakistan, the Goethe-Institut Pakistan offers a two months all-expenses covered residency for artists and researchers interested in cross-disciplinary theory and practice related to the city and urban phenomena. The artwork/artistic research will be presented and featured in public events in the scope of “Urbanities” and as part of the larger debate around the curatorial premise of the Biennale 2017.
Location: Karachi or Lahore, Pakistan
Duration: 8 weeks between 15 October and 15 December 2016
Application opens: 5 May 2016
Application deadline: 5 June 2016
Partners: Lahore Biennale Foundation and
Vasl, Pakistan
Find the call here and additional information here for download.
Call for Applicaion
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