Placetellers Bratislava-Vienna
open participation
Jürgen Rendl,
Urban Flow
Placetellers will connect people, places and stories in and between Bratislava and Vienna. We want to collect and share places, that are appropriated by people and their stories, practises, experiences and emotions. Thereby we are aiming to humanize the respective cityscape, making the traces, which people leave in the urban pattern, accessable and readable like a collective story. Your traces will change the way how others perceive the city.
"I would like there to exist places that are stable, unmoving, intangible, untouched and almost untouchable, unchanging, deep-rooted: places that might be points of reference, of departure, of origin. Such places don't exist, and its because they don't exist that space becomes a question, ceases to be self-evident, ceases to be incorporated, ceases to be appropriated. Space is a doubt: I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. It's never mine, never given to me, I have to conquer it."
Georges Perec, Species of Spaces
Bratislava is, through the radical neoliberalization of its cityscape, losing many places of difference and diversity. Places, that were created through personal (hi)stories and collective narratives. That's why we want to create a platform for those humanized places, stories and practices.
26.4. - 3.5. 18:00 - 20:00, festival center, A4
"Placetellers collection"
During multiplace we will ask people in Bratislava "Kde je tvoje miesto?" (Where is your place?) and collect places, stories, practises, experiences and emotions connected to their city. Come to the festival center and share! What you provide will be the base for a collective web platform about YOUR places in Bratislava and inspire the itinerary of our collective placetellers walk.
3.5. 14:00, Meeting point at the entrance to the building of A4
"Placetellers walk"
A collective walk through YOUR Bratislava. Sharing places, stories and emotions. Any creative means will be welcome to capture our journey, navigating through the cityscape alongside emotional traces. Surprises and magic moments appreciated. Strollers, storytellers and hungry hearts warmly welcome. Let it all out!
follow up:
By end of may we want to invite Bratislavcanov to creatively appropriate places in Vienna. Find, connect, share. A chance to infiltrate the so called "city twin" with your urban stories, desires and little utopias. Bratislavizacia vo Viedni. Come and join us! |
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