This documentary draws the history of techno music, from its origins in Detroit to worldwide diffusion. Contains interviews to the main artists of the Detroit scene.
Universal Techno, directed by Dominique Deluze, France 1996.
Here are some excerpts
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Mapping Urgencies and Opportunities
Tuesday 9 December 2008:
2nd Dutch Art Institute workshop of the Detroit UnReal Estate Agency taught by Partizan Publik.
Title:
Mapping Urgencies and Opportunities
The narratives, images, projects and propositions of the unreal estate market will have to be researched and laid out; a brief overview of location specifics and qualities.
Central questions will be: Where and why is the market tight and is unreal estate valued highly and where are possibilities for interventions by our agents? Where is the market corrupted and who is responsible? Are open urban spaces examples of a corrupted market? As such, a first intervention will be creating an alternative lens for viewing and valuing the city, not ignoring its socio-economic problems nor the accompanying violence. In addition we draft the Unreal Estate mission statement. Also, our participants would have to work on a quick-scan of possible clients, from the fields of municipal politics, academics, real estate and property, arts and culture. These people are as much an audience to our work and ideas, as the people who can carry them further, intellectually and practically.
On the program is, amongst others, an afternoon - lecture by co-curator Mireille Roddier entitled '3 forms of contemporary practices: Puppets, Vanguardistas & Guerillas' - on various modes of creative operations in the city, and the various forms of occupation they attempt to resist. And an evening - lecture entitled 'Playtime giddiness at high attitudes'
Besides discussing work from Herscher, Harvey, Roddier, De Certeau and De Solà -Morales, we'll be screening Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987).
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DUEA is acuratorial project is a collaboration between Partizan Publik, architect Andrew Herscher, curator Femke Lutgerink and architect Mireille Roddier.
2nd Dutch Art Institute workshop of the Detroit UnReal Estate Agency taught by Partizan Publik.
Title:
Mapping Urgencies and Opportunities
The narratives, images, projects and propositions of the unreal estate market will have to be researched and laid out; a brief overview of location specifics and qualities.
Central questions will be: Where and why is the market tight and is unreal estate valued highly and where are possibilities for interventions by our agents? Where is the market corrupted and who is responsible? Are open urban spaces examples of a corrupted market? As such, a first intervention will be creating an alternative lens for viewing and valuing the city, not ignoring its socio-economic problems nor the accompanying violence. In addition we draft the Unreal Estate mission statement. Also, our participants would have to work on a quick-scan of possible clients, from the fields of municipal politics, academics, real estate and property, arts and culture. These people are as much an audience to our work and ideas, as the people who can carry them further, intellectually and practically.On the program is, amongst others, an afternoon - lecture by co-curator Mireille Roddier entitled '3 forms of contemporary practices: Puppets, Vanguardistas & Guerillas' - on various modes of creative operations in the city, and the various forms of occupation they attempt to resist. And an evening - lecture entitled 'Playtime giddiness at high attitudes'
Besides discussing work from Herscher, Harvey, Roddier, De Certeau and De Solà -Morales, we'll be screening Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop (1987).
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DUEA is acuratorial project is a collaboration between Partizan Publik, architect Andrew Herscher, curator Femke Lutgerink and architect Mireille Roddier.
Filmmaker Paul Washburn
Another piece of Design 99 advice:
Paul Washburn is a filmmaker who grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and now lives in California most of the year. But every once in awhile he spends a few months in Detroit filming and editing his projects.
Last summer he lived in Hamtramck and came into the Design 99 storefront pretty regularly. Be sure to check out John's Carpet House and on You Tube there are several recordings as well. Also, Washburn's Director's reel has a bunch of Hamtramck footage.
Paul Washburn is a filmmaker who grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and now lives in California most of the year. But every once in awhile he spends a few months in Detroit filming and editing his projects.
Last summer he lived in Hamtramck and came into the Design 99 storefront pretty regularly. Be sure to check out John's Carpet House and on You Tube there are several recordings as well. Also, Washburn's Director's reel has a bunch of Hamtramck footage.
The Yes Farm and Unsilent Night
A suggestion from Design 99:
The Yes Farm - group lives over on Farnsworth on the 'Paul Weertz block' in East Detroit. They moved here from San Francisco a year or 2 ago.
To learn more about this group read here about one of the initiator Andrew Kemp.
Another farming project is called the Hubbard Farms in South West Detroit. They were recently involved in a street music project, entitled the Unsilent Night, which also orginated in San Francisco. Check out this You Tube movie about one of these nights in San Francisco!
The Yes Farm - group lives over on Farnsworth on the 'Paul Weertz block' in East Detroit. They moved here from San Francisco a year or 2 ago.To learn more about this group read here about one of the initiator Andrew Kemp.
Another farming project is called the Hubbard Farms in South West Detroit. They were recently involved in a street music project, entitled the Unsilent Night, which also orginated in San Francisco. Check out this You Tube movie about one of these nights in San Francisco!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Michael Stanton: The Rise and Fall of American Cities
Michael Stanton on the ‘Rise and Fall of American Cities’
Lecture Date: November 11, 2008
Location: Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, Netherlands
By Monika Berenyi
We, the agents of Partizan Publik’s Detroit Unreal Estate Agency are actively engaged in deepening and enlightening our fluency on the richly disturbing and inspiring idiosyncratic nature of Detroit, USA. As a collective Agency, we strive to explore and provoke progressive and revisionist avenues for perceiving our subject matter. We recently absorbed a wealth of primary source material and original discourse from noteworthy American architect and scholar, Michael Stanton.
In an effort to broaden our understanding of Detroit, Stanton took a formulaic approach, unveiling a panorama on greater America’s urban growth and decline, illustrated vis-à-vis macro to micro impressions. Stanton’s delivery on the ‘Rise and Fall of American Cities’ was charged by a vibrant and comprehensive overview of definitive urban contrasts, traits, and most importantly, contradictions. Maximizing a range of tools from the disciplines of history, sociology, geography, economics, and architecture, glazed by an inherent and poetic passion for the subject matter, Stanton illuminated his thoughts on the turbulent nature of American urban centers ex professo.
Stanton’s prefaced his lecture by referring to American cities as the greatest contradiction in the United States, where unresolved contrasts and contradictions have continued to breathe since their forced inception. As carriers of both utopian and socialist Darwinist impulses, puritanical and libertine values, bellicosity and secularism, it is the cities themselves that are emblematic of the greatest culture wars on earth. Stanton argued that it is in these very cities that the greatest collection of human art evokes the triumph and evolution of the human condition, albeit the simultaneous fostering of suffering, anxiety, and turmoil.
Applying fiery historical rhetoric, anecdotes, and photographic resource materials, Stanton presented a cross-section on the evolutionary heritage of the crescendo and decrescendo of the great American urban center. Stanton’s contextualized his findings and conclusions through the humanist lens, emphasizing the growth of social extremities alongside aggressive economic and political agendas. Through careful evaluation of the city’s grid, both past and present, he argued that the American nation’s great contrivance, the concept of nature, is clearly rendered.
In summary, we the Agency, were riveted by Stanton’s material, as we were left with ample stimuli to aid in our treatment of Detroit. I leave you with a lasting thought that our expert so emphatically shared:
“In our day everything is pregnant with its contrary...Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing materials forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into materials force.”
Karl Marx, Speech at the Anniversary of the People’s Paper (1856)
Lecture Date: November 11, 2008
Location: Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, Netherlands
By Monika Berenyi
We, the agents of Partizan Publik’s Detroit Unreal Estate Agency are actively engaged in deepening and enlightening our fluency on the richly disturbing and inspiring idiosyncratic nature of Detroit, USA. As a collective Agency, we strive to explore and provoke progressive and revisionist avenues for perceiving our subject matter. We recently absorbed a wealth of primary source material and original discourse from noteworthy American architect and scholar, Michael Stanton.
In an effort to broaden our understanding of Detroit, Stanton took a formulaic approach, unveiling a panorama on greater America’s urban growth and decline, illustrated vis-à-vis macro to micro impressions. Stanton’s delivery on the ‘Rise and Fall of American Cities’ was charged by a vibrant and comprehensive overview of definitive urban contrasts, traits, and most importantly, contradictions. Maximizing a range of tools from the disciplines of history, sociology, geography, economics, and architecture, glazed by an inherent and poetic passion for the subject matter, Stanton illuminated his thoughts on the turbulent nature of American urban centers ex professo.
Stanton’s prefaced his lecture by referring to American cities as the greatest contradiction in the United States, where unresolved contrasts and contradictions have continued to breathe since their forced inception. As carriers of both utopian and socialist Darwinist impulses, puritanical and libertine values, bellicosity and secularism, it is the cities themselves that are emblematic of the greatest culture wars on earth. Stanton argued that it is in these very cities that the greatest collection of human art evokes the triumph and evolution of the human condition, albeit the simultaneous fostering of suffering, anxiety, and turmoil.
Applying fiery historical rhetoric, anecdotes, and photographic resource materials, Stanton presented a cross-section on the evolutionary heritage of the crescendo and decrescendo of the great American urban center. Stanton’s contextualized his findings and conclusions through the humanist lens, emphasizing the growth of social extremities alongside aggressive economic and political agendas. Through careful evaluation of the city’s grid, both past and present, he argued that the American nation’s great contrivance, the concept of nature, is clearly rendered.
In summary, we the Agency, were riveted by Stanton’s material, as we were left with ample stimuli to aid in our treatment of Detroit. I leave you with a lasting thought that our expert so emphatically shared:
“In our day everything is pregnant with its contrary...Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing materials forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into materials force.”
Karl Marx, Speech at the Anniversary of the People’s Paper (1856)
Mike Davis on Urban Resistance
Some thoughts on surveillance, density, and the value of vandalism.
"when you get some creative network or community of young people trying to live in the city in a different manner they can unwillingly become foot soldiers.
Reformist politics has zero to say about this. There is absolutely no reformist government anywhere in the world that can deal with the serious and major issues of urban inequality, because it will not take on property values, land inflation etc. Until you start talking about confiscating the incriminating land value or socialising land or systems of limited equity in land, you cannot control the city, you cannot achieve any real equality in it."
(via JaneeD)
ps. If you think the surveillance part is all good fun, you'll get a kick out of this one!
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