noplaceprojects: There Was Once a Place

Budapest - June - 2008

About

[noplaceprojects*] is a project-based arts initiative fronted by Liz Helman, curating primarily photography and moving image.

[noplaceprojects*] aim to present a diversity of cross-cultural and transglobal projects.

About [Liz Helman*]

Liz Helman is a London-based visual artist and independent curator. In her practice she uses photography and moving image to explore the everyday experiences and memories of urban living.

She also works professionally as a magazine and newspaper photo editor across a wide variety of print media.

..the legend..

“The city is a web, a piece of woven fabric; a text. And the text of our lives is in turn inscribed on the city and on the house, on the spaces we inhabit. To search for these inscriptions we draw a map of the city as it exists in tension with our lives. But these inscriptions are overlaid with later changes, partially obscured and altered. We constantly make tiny changes to the city, to our houses, everyday. Those tiny changes accumulated in something called age. Age is the accumulation of tiny changes. Our memory ages so does the city. In our search for our lives we constantly renew our city and our memory of it. We are the architects of our lives.”

Taken from the essay, 'Walter Benjamin, Ambling Through the City of the Mind' by Jacob Voorthuis.

Dr J.C.T Voorthuis lectures in Architecture & Philosophy at the Technical University of Eindhoven at the Academy of Architure in Rotterdam

No Place Reading Room

The Invisible Flaneuse ? - Eds. Aruna d’Souza and Tom McDonough
Sexuality and Space - Beatriz Colomina
Architecture and the Text: The S(crypts) of Joyce and Piranesi - Jennifer Bloomer
The Architectural Uncanny - Anthony Vidler
Some Cities - Victor Burgin
The Body and the City - Steve Pile
Mongrel Cities - Leonie Sandercock
The Sphinx in the City - Elizabeth Wilson
The Production of Space - Henri Lefebvre
The Practice of Everyday Life - Michel de Certeau
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Non-Places - An Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity - Marc Auge

Thursday 26 June 2008

There Was Once a Place