[artinfo] HOUSE OF WORLD CULTURES NEWSLETTER No 04/0 (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:18:54 +0200
From: Sieglinde Tuschy <tuschy@hkw.de>
Subject: HOUSE OF WORLD CULTURES NEWSLETTER No 04/0



NEWSLETTER No 04/01


HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT   -   HOUSE OF WORLD CULTURES   -   BERLIN
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Dear colleagues, dear friends,

on August 18 we are going to open the internet installation entiteld Blue
Stage - European Exchanges here in the House of World Cultures. The project
was funded by the European Union and stages information on the three cities
Copenhagen, Montpellier and Copenhagen. The Centre Chor=E9graphique Nationa=
l
de Montpellier and the Danish Center for Culture and Development are our
partners.

For your information please find a basic text on Blue Stage below (in
English and en francais).

Kindest regards,

Sieglinde Tuschy
Networking/International Contacts
House of World Cultures
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 BERLIN. GERMANY
Tel +49 - 30 - 397 87181
Fax +49 - 30 - 394 8679
E-mail tuschy@hkw.de
Internet www.hkw.de
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B l u e   S t a g e
A multimedia experiment
18 August - 30 September 2001

Sound, film, music, photography and images, text: the Blue Stage
interactive installation presents an innovative model for the multimedia
representation of cultural themes. Here, new kinds of interaction of
between man and networked knowledge are tried out. The visitor can navigate
flexibly  - without any burdensome virtual helmet or tactile gloves -
through the space while putting his own individual programme of information
together. Complex relationships are not presented as a mere flood of data.
Blue Stage is the prototype for and first installation of the Blue Space
project, a large, long-term multimedia exhibition at the House of World
Cultures. Networked with "Sister Spaces" on other continents, and with
European and international cultural institutions and museums, Blue Space is
planned to grow into an interactive encyclopedia of world cultures.


Blue Stage shows new aspects of the urbanism theme, going beyond town
planning and architecture. Using developments in Montpellier, Berlin and
Copenhagen, the three partner cities in the European Community project,
examples are given of how culture and migration are now key factors in the
development of cities. The Mediterranean region is where there is currently
a new, notable departure taking place in terms of dance, theatre and music.
Blue Stage outlines these tendencies just as it does the socio-cultural
urban development as well as those concrete urban measures currently taking
form in Montpellier, Berlin and Copenhagen.


While Montpellier is transforming itself into a Mediterranean city by means
of new districts in the east and south, Berlin is filling in the holes
which arose from the division of the city with an "open-air exhibition" of
new building. And Copenhagen is forging ambitious plans to reurbanise the
harbour area in the centre of the city. Blue Stage presents these urban
development  projects. At the same time developments are shown which often
leave a more durable imprint on the face of the city than architecture
itself: the intermingling of different cultures, i.e. the phenomenon of
migration.


Art and culture create urban spaces. Montpellier is defined by dance. In
Berlin, performances and parades, actors (and poseurs), runners and skaters
regularly hold sway in the streets and public areas. A political, social
and cultural community which has created a strong impetus for the
reconsideration of city structures in Copenhagen.


B l u e   S t a g e
Une exp=E9rimentation multim=E9dia
18 August - 30 September 2001

Sons, films, musique, images, textes : l'installation interactive Blue
Stage pr=E9sente un mod=E8le innovateur de repr=E9sentation multim=E9dia de=
 th=E8mes
culturels. Elle exp=E9rimente de nouvelles formes d'interaction entre l'hom=
me
et le savoir en r=E9seau. Le visiteur navigue librement - sans casque virtu=
el
ni gant tactile g=EAnants - =E0 travers l'espace et =E9tablit de fa=E7on
individuelle son propre programme d'information. Les rapports complexes
n'apparaissent pas comme de purs flux de donn=E9es. Blue Stage fait de la
culture une exp=E9rience, traduit et agence le savoir de fa=E7on vivante et
claire. Blue Stage est le prototype et la premi=E8re installation du projet
Blue Space, une grande exposition permanente multim=E9dia qui sera pr=E9sen=
t=E9e
=E0 la Maison des Cultures du Monde. Connect=E9 =E0 =AB Sister Space =BB su=
r d'autres
continents et =E0 des institutions culturelles et mus=E9es europ=E9ens et
internationaux, Blue Space se transformera en une encyclop=E9die interactiv=
e
des cultures du monde.


Blue Stage montre de nouveaux aspects de l'am=E9nagement des villes et va
au-del=E0 de l'urbanisme ou de l'architecture. Les exemples de Montpellier,
Berlin et Copenhague, les trois villes partenaires de ce projet commun
europ=E9en, montrent l'importance, aujourd'hui, de la culture et la migrati=
on
comme facteurs du d=E9veloppement urbain. De fortes impulsions viennent de =
la
r=E9gion m=E9diterran=E9enne. C'est l=E0 qu'est n=E9e l'id=E9e de la ville,=
 id=E9e qui
s'est consolid=E9e en Europe, avant de se r=E9pandre dans le monde entier. =
Ce
sont des migrants issus des pays m=E9diterran=E9ens qui ont modifi=E9 durab=
lement
de nombreux paysages urbains europ=E9ens. Et c'est justement dans cet espac=
e
m=E9diterran=E9en que l'on assiste aujourd'hui de fa=E7on =E9vidente =E0 un
remarquable renouveau de la danse, du th=E9=E2tre et de la musique. Blue St=
age
retrace tant ces tendances que le d=E9veloppement urbain socioculturel et
architectural =E0 Montpellier, Berlin et Copenhague.


Les trois villes se fixent des objectifs gigantesques : tandis que
Montpellier se m=E9tamorphose en une ville m=E9diterran=E9enne avec ses nou=
veaux
quartiers =E0 la p=E9riph=E9rie est et sud, Berlin comble ses terrains vagu=
es
apparus avec la division de la ville par une =AB exposition en plein air =
=BB de
constructions nouvelles. Copenhague =E9labore des projets ambitieux qui
r=E9urbanisent les anciennes zones portuaires du centre-ville. Blue Stage
pr=E9sente ces projets d'urbanisme qui apportent des r=E9ponses aux d=E9fis
urbains actuels. Parall=E8lement, il met en =E9vidence les =E9volutions qui=
,
aujourd'hui, davantage que l'architecture, influencent souvent plus
durablement les paysages urbains : la rencontre de diff=E9rentes cultures, =
le
ph=E9nom=E8ne de migration. A Montpellier, ce sont les Maghr=E9bins qui mar=
quent
de leur empreinte des quartiers entiers de la ville, =E0 Copenhague des
ressortissants de l'ex-Yougoslavie et =E0 Berlin la communaut=E9 turque. De=
s
essais photos et des interviews illustrent les perspectives et les chances
des villes.




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Sieglinde Tuschy
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Networking / International Relations
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 BERLIN. GERMANY
Tel +49 - 30 - 397 87181
Fax +49 - 30 - 394 8679
E-mail tuschy@hkw.de
Internet www.hkw.de
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