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URBAN DREAMS consists of two project modules:

1. Artistic interventions in public space

Based on manifold perspectives of diverse artists URBAN DREAMS explores public and semi-public spaces. Through URBAN DREAMS art becomes a research strategy and the city changes into a laboratory. Arts, the city and everyday life confront each other. Reactions and interactions with the inhabitants will join the continuous process of research. Since the attained insights stem from urban spaces, presentation opportunities are to be found in precisely these spaces. Connections will be generated directly at the place of origin. Recipients turn simultaneously into objects of observation and observers of objects, into the investigated and the investigators. The act of (re-)search becomes an artistic performance itself.

2. The exhibition as an “archive” of dreams

For this project the exhibition space of the Centre for Contemporary Art changes into an archive and reading room of (mainly Eastern) European artistic urban research saving dreams expressed in explicit, such as in implicit manners. Beside the results of the latest artistic urbanism in Plovdiv and in other partner cities of the HEICO network, this archive will also present international projects from the last twenty years by different forms of media, based on material provided by partner organisations and artists.

Program:

20/21 October 2012, 11-18h. HAMALOGIKA - Artistic interactive action in public space.
Place: The water mirrors next to the City Park

26 October 2012 19h. Opening of the interactive exhibition, library/archive of the European artistic urban research.
Place: Centre for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath

7 November 2012 14 -15 h. FOOOOTBALLLL – Football game between 4 football teams, 4 football gates and 1 ball. Artist: Veronika Cekova
Place : Stadium Plovdiv

17 November от 18 до 21 h. Space 0 Space – Storm – Artist: HR-Stamenov.
Place: City art Gallery, Plovdiv

URBAN DREAMS is realized with the support of the program „Culture“ of the European Commission, Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Municipality Plovdiv, Robert Bosch Foundation, Foundation Plovdiv 2019 and in partnership with the international network Atlantis.
Media cooperation: BNT Plovdiv, Katra FM, Darik Radio. Darik news.

The event is part of the initiative "Plovdiv - Candidate for European Capital of Culture 2019»