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17/05/2013 - Lena Obergfell - Sydney, Australia
Wasteland Sydney is happy to announce a new project: Wasteland Sydney Satellites: Wasteland Satellite Beaconsfield As mentioned earlier http://wasteland-twinning.net/blog/fenced-off/ the Wasteland in Surry Hills will be inaccessible for the next two years. In order to reflect on the fast changeing ... more »
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02/05/2013 - Adj Marshall - Providence RI, USA
Adj Marshall will speak on Wasteland National Park as part of the Providence Athenaeum’s Speaker Series “Curating the City: Temporary Installations, Permanent Impressions” http://www.gcpvd.org/2013/04/30/the-providence-athenaeum-salon-may-3-2013/
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12/04/2013 - Adj Marshall - Providence RI, USA
This myth, by wasteland researcher Adj Marshall in collaboration with Anna Links, Kate Haughey & Lily Benedict, applies artistic, musical and public humanities perspectives to the concept of site specific storytelling.
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08/04/2013 - Alex Head
With the tourist season heating up there have been some crucial developments concerning the Koepi Brache. A new owner has taken the lease for the site and our adjoining studio building. This reflects the proposed developments for the remaining plots ... more »
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31/03/2013 - David Bell - Nottingham, England
Wasteland Twinning Nottingham NeedsYou! On Saturday 27th April, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham is producing an ambitious photographic work on ‘The Island’ wasteland, between Sneinton and Nottingham city centre. The work is a recreation of an artist’s impression of the unrealised Hopkin’s masterplan (above), ... more »
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29/03/2013 - Rebecca Beinart - Nottingham, England
The Wasteland Conversations took place in February and March 2013 at Nottingham Contemporary, exploring themes that are central to our research within the Wasteland Twinning Network. They covered themes of place and place-making, the role of artistic practice, utopia and ... more »
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16/03/2013 - David Bell - Nottingham, England
Wasteland Twinning Nottingham is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for two works that will be included in (or occur at the time of) our exhibition in October 2013. The call is attached as a .pdf here and reproduced ... more »
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07/01/2013 - Alex Head
Dovetailing nicely with Lars Hayer’s Presentation in Kuala Lumpur, Alex Head will be presenting Vague Terrain a talk on the Wasteland Twinning Network first delivered in Poland, 2012 with Will Foster. It will be held at 365 space in Bermondsey, ... more »
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07/01/2013 - Will Foster - Nottingham, England
‘When the Boot’s factories were demolished the City Council were going through the land reclamation process and they found this underground reservoir of white, gooey, gloopy stuff which sparked a lot of worry that it might be dangerous. They sent ... more »
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01/01/2013 - David Bell - Nottingham, England
Here in Nottingham we’ve got lots planned for the first quarter of 2013, including a series of public discussions at Nottingham Contemporary and a ‘residency’ in Sneinton Library (close to The Island wasteland site). Talk at University of Nottingham Our ... more »
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21/09/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
An exploration of urban wastelands and networked transdisciplinary practice The Forum brings together the international project partners of the Wasteland Twinning Network from Europe, Asia and Australia.
Hosted at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, the Forum features presentations, guest speakers, critical debates, Twinning Ceremonies, wasteland interventions and workshops.
Visit Forum website at http://wasteland-twinning.net/forum
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04/07/2012 - Will Foster - Nottingham, England
Wasteland Twinning Nottingham Rounders and Fallow Games Berlin on BBC Radio Nottingham.
listen here at the time 2:38
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00th7r0
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26/06/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Tune in your internet this saturday 30th of June 2012 Starting 2pm local time Germany - 1pm local time England Radio commentary coming to you live and at the same time from the games in Nottingham and Berlin. More info http://wasteland-twinning.net/games-broadcast/
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25/06/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
WASTE, SPORT and HABIT come together for THE FALLOW GAMES The Wasteland Twinning Network hosts a day of urban sporting and appropriation of the city’s wastelands. You are invited into our temporary playground where everyday activities will be transformed ... more »
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31/05/2012 - Will Foster
Do you enjoy scaling walls into unknown territories? playing in the gaps? searching for disorder? could you join as a key part of the volunteer team? Then let the games begin… Wasteland Twinning Network Berlin is holding The Fallow Games, a day of international sports activity and appropriation of the city’s common lands.
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07/05/2012 - David Bell - Nottingham, England
The Islanders present Launch of Wasteland Twinning Nottingham
Featuring wasteland tours, short film with live soundtrack, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
An afternoon of events to launch the public programme of Wasteland Twinning in Nottingham.
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22/04/2012 - Will Foster
This months Article Magazine ‘The broken issue’ has a five page article on The Islanders and the Wasteland Twinning network. Get your copy here: http://articlemagazine.co.uk/2012/04/the-broken-issue-available-this-week/
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07/04/2012 - Mathew Trivett - Nottingham, England
Wednesday 11 April, 10 – 12.00 Djanogly Lecture Theatre, Nottingham Trent University, UK Context Lectures: SITE /OFF-SITE /NON-SITE Becky Beinart, David Bell and Mathew Trivett (Wasteland Twinning); Jennie Syson (Hinterland) and Emma Cocker (Urban Retreat / Manual for Marginal Places). ... more »
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01/04/2012 - Will Foster
The representative explorers of the following city wastelands have mutually agreed to enter a twinning relationship, commencing later this year…
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15/02/2012 - Will Foster
Call For Participation: SPACE/SCAPE: Bon Suwung ‘KUNCI SPACE/SCAPE project calls for public participation in Bon Suwung, a collaborative project which explores wasteland potentials as a territory that creates a viable transformation of the relation between people and city-spaces. As an overview, the ... more »
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15/02/2012 - Will Foster
‘Walk along the tram tracks that cut through Hammarby Stöstad, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Stockholm, and you’ll pass modern condos and old factories, the architectural signposts of a neighborhood in transition. More eye-catching is the dense overgrowth of trees and bushes ... more »
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12/02/2012 - Will Foster
W139 takes part in Wasteland Twinning, an international network for parallel research and action. Director of W139, Tim Voss on the participation: ‘An artist friend coming from Geneva, Christophe Meierhans, was living in Amsterdam for a while throughout his studies. ... more »
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14/12/2011 - Lena Obergfell - Sydney, Australia
I visited the site today and it was a bit of a shock. The lake drained, trees chopped. It looks weirdly cleaned up. I started to worry about the ducks. A workman was inside, cutting up a board. A sledgehammer ... more »
