Places of Act III.
Use your public space
PLACES OF ACT KRAKOW, PLACES OF ACT BUDAPEST, PLACES OF ACT BRATISLAVA
The project of artists and organizations of the Visegrad Four – Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic.
Places of Act is an interactive art project in public space situated in places with similar history but different present. We have created a project with the aim of taking care and having respect to our common public space together with our partner organizations from Budapest, Krakow and Bratislava. The project contains a site-specific project with the emphasis on close international cooperation with similar organisations; however, they have various art points of view of solving the problem of public space (architectonic, urban, community projects, residential programs, cultural policy etc).
The contents of the project are cooperation among 4 cultural institutions from 4 countries: Four Days (Czech Republic) + Artopolis Association (Hungary) + Rotunda Association (Poland) + Poton Theatre (Slovakia). The activity of these organizations is focused on international and interdisciplinary projects oriented on public space on site specific art.
Project Places of Act – use your public space aims to map specific places in Krakow, Budapest and Bratislava in a creative and artistic way; these places are stimulating by their intensity and topicality of themes and they offer the opportunity to understand them on several different levels.
The objective is original activation of public space with art – art action and interaction that influences and surprises the inhabitants of the city at a place where they do not expect it. A unique and contemporary project significantly works not only with the chosen location but with its community as well; a more intensive relation of a person to place originates, a person realizes one’s identity and influence a person creates on the given place. The art action is considered to be a possibility how to create respect and sharing of public space.
The aim of the project is to draw attention to common sharing of public space in the form of a site-specific activity (light, acoustic, graphic installations, screenings, professional commentaries, theatre, happening, dance etc). Artistic interventions situated in urban and rural environment will offer a very original and specific point of view on the given location. The project works with the chosen location and with its community as well. The intention of the project is to change and “overwrite” experience and people’s relation to a specific place, transformation of emotional landscape of public space. It mediates realizing one’s identity and influence a person creates in specific space.
The project wants to draw attention to common sharing of public space, changing attitudes towards protection and attention of public space, changing the attitude towards environment and development of community activities in public space in the form of artistic intervention. The project is designated for the general public (site-specific events) and it also solves the problem from the professional point of view (lectures and workshops for the general public).