OSA + SITIOS: Oliver Langbein, Bernhard Rehn
"Inside - Out"
Biography
Oliver Langbein – Germany, married, 3 children; Since 1995 founding member of OSA-Office for Subversive Architecture. The group mixes elements of street art and activist interventions with an unorthodox architectural approach that makes people question standard uses of space; Dipl. Ing. Architecture; since 2006 founding member of SITIOS; since 2003 numerous lectureships and workshops at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD), the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (h_da), the Muthesius Kunsthochschule and the University of Kassel for osa-workshops; 2001-2004 research assistant for Prof. Stephan Goerner, department “design and urban development” & 2004 - 2006 lectureship for interim head of department; 2003-2005 lectureships at the TU Darmstadt for the reformation and project management for the undergraduate students - urban design; 2003 formation of the research-group FOG interdisciplinary platform in-between economy, culture and research to advance and analyse temporary projects in public space; 1984-1992 electronic music with Frank Rückert: Tribantura, worldwide release of CD´s and EP‘s.
Bernhard Rehn – Austria, Mexico. Architecture and urban design at TU Graz (2000). Founder of archexperience 2000-open office; founding member of SITIOS (2006). Lectureships and workshops at the Technical University of Graz, the UADY, México, the Universidad Marista, México, TEC de Monterrey, Mexico, COM:PLOT, Guadalajara, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Germany. Since 2006 also scenographer for opera, e.g. Mexico and Austria-Teatro Degollado, Festspielhaus Bregenz. Invited finalist at World Stage Design 2009 Seoul, Corea. Independent curator for contemporary art. Works and lives in Mexico and Europe.
Description of the workshop
"Lucha Libre Urbana" / "Learning from Mexico"
Sunday 27 – Wednesday 30 June 2010. Temporary installations and minimal interventions, improvisations, actions and performances
How do we react to the increasing commercialization and privatization of public space? How free is the use of free-space?
Issue is the question regarding the actual freedom of using public space. How public is public-space? What is desired / usual / allowed / tolerated / unusual / unwanted / banned? We want to challenge the social functions of the public space. We want to explore what happens, if we put typical every day rituals from Mexico to Warsaw.
In this complex of themes we want to set up experimental arrangements and test them in real space. We address typical Central-American utilization strategies to Warsaw.
Task: Based on the Mobile Unit of THE KNOT we‘re going to explore the city as a kind of „freedom fighters“ for the urban public space. We‘re going to use Lucha-Libre-Masks and other slightly modified behaviors / elements of the Mexican street-life. Such as street trading [Ambulantajes], services like cleaning and polishing shoes, cleaning the window panes of the cars waiting at the red traffic lights. Slightly transformed particular cultural features and religious peculiarities [Santa Muerte, Lucha Libre]. We‘re aiming at achieving a discussion with the inhabitants, the actors and the strollers by confronting them with unexpected strategies of using space.
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