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

paviljonki 3


paviljonki 3
Originally uploaded by neppanen
A Bare House

Trolleybus, Ulaanbaatar Street

Bare Street, Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar Trolley
Originally uploaded by AaverageJoe

Shop Sign, Street and Public Transport by Michael Chu

Bare House




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