City! Is the
motto with which we aim to add a new dimension to
the urban public space, and a tint of interesting
and exciting for its residents and visitors, using
installations by international authors. Each
individual installation and the entire project
reminds us that the city is a living, transforming
organism that should not be taken for granted; and
that not everything is what it seems. The city (can)
offer different levels of life quality and various
possibilities of spending leisure time. Our
temporary interventions wish to encourage you, both
residents and visitors, to take a different look, be
it on the city itself, with its public spaces, or on
the artist's part in co-designing the city and the
quality of life in it. City! includes the AKC Metelkova mesto, the
central Bus station Ljubljana, the Parki-Raj
parking garage on Trdinova Street, the Miklošičev
park, Nazorjeva and Čopova streets, the Dragon
Bridge, The Three
Bridges, the Zlata ladjica pub on
Breg embankment, the Cankarjev Dom
platform, the Northern park in Župančičeva jama and
Hrvatski trg square, in front of St Peter's church. City! will be
opened by the interactive installation with the
title Human Tiles by the Portuguese
group Ocubo; the piece is
supplemented by the
lighting objects designed by Andrej Štular, Marko A.
Kovačič and Brane Ždralo. Their designs are linked
to the year of the book events that
invite us to bold readings of poetry, comics, etc.
Aleksandra Stratimirović, a Serbian artist from City! certainly can
not ignore Ljubljana, the World Book Capital of
2010: the Personal Reading by the
Spanish group Luzinterruptus invite us to
read in uncommon places; the Nocturnal Readings
in Ljubljana's parks will be made possible by
special light shades by authors Marko Kovačič, Brane
Ždralo, Marko Crnobrnja (from the Štap i Kanap
redesign studio), and Aleš Presetnik; Comics in
verses will be read on big panels in lighted posters
(city lights) stationed in the city center; and Kaja
Avberšek will turn the parking garage Parki-Raj
into a lively apartment building that will make
heads stop and turn. Before City! can be opened, we need to introduce its first temporary residents: the Symbionts by the French sculptor Bernard Murigneux. |
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