Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Bare Street, Bare House
For the exhibition Bare House in Pori, opening May 28, I will present posters with some drawings, and with some of my Ulaanbaatar diaries (Blog extracts)
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Trolleybus, Ulaanbaatar Street
Bare Street, Ulaanbaatar
Shop Sign, Street and Public Transport by Michael Chu
The proposed contribution for Bare House, in Pori this May - to be called Улаанбаатарийн Гудамчнууд or alternatively 'Bare Street' - is concerned with urbanisation and the informal peri-urban environments of Ulaanbaatar. The informal districts of Ulaanbaatar (known as гэр хооролол) are expanding due to internal migration following the recent extreme winter 'zuud', which has damaged rural livelihoods. A series of six banners of urban landscapes (printed using a local UB technique for making shop signage) forms one part, a small drawing studio / installation with pencil drawings, sketchbooks and a blog forms another. The weblog diary and sketches document the work and day-to-day life of a certain 'nomadologist', an architect teacher trainer in a peri-urban construction college, walking from the edge of the formal city through a 'ger district' to a training college and live construction site. Some features of the year-long blog include Live Projects , Participation, Sustainable Tourism, and a wheelchair tour of Ulaanbaatar streets. What will be the future for nomadic peri-urbanism?
Gregory Cowan (AUS / GB)
ARTISTS/ARCHITECTS:
GREGORY COWAN, AUS/GB
ALETTA DE JONG, NL
MICHAEL FÜRST, AUT
KATRIN HORNEK, AUT
SONIA LEIMER, ITA/AUT
CHRISITAN MAYER,GER/AUT
ANA REWAKOWICZ, PL/CAN
CHRISTINE SAALFELD, GER/NL
OULA SALOKANNEL, FIN
SER-ODIN DOLGOR, MN
SEDBAZARIN GANZUG, MN
TOGMIDSHIIREVIN ENKHBOLD, MN
ANNU WILENIUS,FIN
YO.DALKH-OCHIR, MN
AUTHORS:B. DAAJAV, MN
GREGORY COWAN, AUS/GB
SAARA HACKLIN, FIN
TAINA RAJANTI, FIN
ANNU WILENIUS, FIN
Curator / ORGANISATION: ANNU WILENIUS
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