Urban Art Platform
The aim is to create a space for artists in Brussels working in the field of image and sound to meet together thereby providing the possibility to transform their ideas into concrete form and to open this world to experimentation.
To realise this objective, Urban Art Platform aims to provide artists with working spaces so that the fruit of these artistic experiences can at last be made available to the public at large. Regarding visual experiences, we are thinking among other things of overlaying film and video with amateur documentaries or with 8mm family films. The representations will be centred above all on the artistic creation itself. Other forms of artistic expression such as the creative documentary or television will be integrated into film.
Urban Art Platform must also be the place where electronic and acoustic sounds (jam, freestyle, soundscape and open mike, human beatbox, eclectic or classical) will be confronted and recomposed. Finally, the project also tries to combine image and sound and discover new forms of city culture. In 2000, the project assumed a greater magnitude thanks to Studio 5 having been made available in the Flagey building in Ixelles. Many organisations cooperate together there : a reservations service for experimental music, an emergency cinema, a supporting point for city culture. It is under the Studio 5 name that the project has continued to evolve.
In collaboration with: Cinema NOVA, Some Noise, Souterrain Production, Elf Cut.
Ongoing projects:
L-Atlas
Precare
Generalized Empowerment
Krax
Micronomics
Cartografie
Bouillot
Publications:
Bunker Souple Repertorium 1998 & 2000: available at Citymine(d) offices.
Generalized Empowerment. Uneven Development and Urban Interventions, 2006. Download here.
MapRAC. Plannen voor het RijksAdministratief Centrum. La Cité Administrative de l'Etat en cartes & en question, 2004: available at Citymine(d) offices.
Micronomics scanning: DVD online soon.
Networkbook for Urban P/Arts. 42 initiatives capturing London's Public Space, 2004: available at Citymin(e)d offices.
Towards. Cartes Subjectives d'interventions Urbaines à Bruxelles // Subjectieve Kaarten van Stedelijke Internventies in Brussel: available at Citymine(d) offices.