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The partners of the project SECOND CHANCE would like to invite you to participate in the project´s Final Conference, which will be held in Nuremberg (Germany) on the 27 June 2013.

Follow us on youtube and watch the films from HALLE 14 representing Leipzig, Porta Nuova Tower in the Arsenal of Venice and Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow. The films were produced in the framework of the project SECOND CHANCE.

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HALLE 14 has awarded scholarships to two artists from Ljubljana (SI) and Venice (IT) from 1st February to 31st May 2013 as part of the cultural exchange of Second Chance.

Maša Cvetko works interdisciplinary between architecture, urban planning, scenography, design and art in public space. She will cooperate with the “Initiative Bürgerbahnhof Plagwitz” near the Cotton Mill, which currently revives the untapped / underused station area in the west of Leipzig.

Lia Cecchin uses different media in her art and wants to continue her research in Leipzig “in the field of uncertain situations in life and the obvious benefits that can offer this situation.” Scheduled is a multi-media installation of a green screen and radio plays with excerpts from children’s books.

Both artists will present their work in artist talks and open studios. The dates will be announced in due time on the website www.halle14.org

The partners of the Central European Project Second Chance met during the international conference in Krakow. The keynote “Creative Industries as a catalyst for the revitalization of former industrial units” was held by Agnieszka Zaborska-Jagiełło, Technical University of Krakow. Afterwards the partners from Nuremberg, Krakow, Leipzig, Venice and Ljubljana presented their almost finished pilot projects. Besides, all guests got a creative impulse coming from best practice examples with Bartosz Szydłowski, Director of Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, Krakow and Maria Anna Potocka, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow. Furthermore Justyna Buśko, Chairman of the Board of Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, Poznań gave impression about Stary Browar. Jarosław Suchan, Director of the Museum of Art, presented the concept of Museum of Art Łódź. On December 07 the internal partner meeting took place. The project partners discussed their further cooperation within and after the project in different working groups.

RogLab is a pilot investment for the future Rog Centre, which is unfolding within the frame of the European project Second Chance. The project is connecting five cities — Nuremberg, Leipzig, Venice, Krakow and Ljubljana — in a collaboration on transforming former industrial zones into cultural and creative spaces.

Purpose
RogLab is conceived as a production, educational and presentation space in a 30 m²‑container object. Its purpose is to develop and test contents, partnerships and working modalities that could be further developed and built in the new Rog Centre following the renovation of the former bicycle factory.

Activities
RogLab is dedicated to activities in the fields of architecture, design and contemporary art, their mutual connecting and cross-sector collaboration (economy, education, science, environment, space…) as well as international networking. The integral part of RogLab is the 3D Workshop offering technology and services for rapid prototyping, supporting creativity and stimulating professional development in the three targeted fields.

Opening speeches by the Vice Mayor, Prof. Janez Koželj, and Director of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Blaž Persin, will be followed by an extraordinary multimedia event conceived and performed by platform Cirkulacija 2.

The event, entitled Multiple Circulation (creative socius urbis), will take the form of a unique light and sound transformation of the surroundings of the former Rog factory and RogLab on Petkovškovo Riverbank, make-shop stations for DIY electric instruments, a performance by Neven Korda and a concert by Ueber V.K. = 300.000 V.K, and lots of socializing, of course.

The project emphasises the significance of authentic creative urbanity: participation, cohabitation principles, modularity, a constant searching and a dynamic and living activity that does not settle for superficial solutions but demands results in a real, social space.

Platform Cirkulacija 2 includes different art groups and initiatives, most of them are based in the former Rog factory: Cirkulacija 2; Parallel Worlds; Artgroup RGB; Ueber V.K. = 300.000 V.K

The opening event was chosen from among nine proposals received during the public call for proposals and is thematically connected with the 23rd Biennial of Design (BIO) – Design Relations and is part of the Biennial’s accompanying programme.

Check out the website of RogLab!

Photo by: Miran Kambič, October 2012

‘ARSENALE BRAIN’, by TANJA HEMM

Porta Nuova Tower, Arsenale, Venice

21.09.2012 – 27.09.2012 (work in progress)

28.09.2012 – 26.10.2012 (exhibition)

The architecture, the impressive vertical structure and history of Porta Nuova Tower in Venice collaborates with the site specific sound composition ‘ARSENALE BRAIN’ that Nurembergian based artist Tanja Hemm has created for it.

‘ARSENALE BRAIN’  is a strictly acoustic piece of spatial sound art that transforms the location to its fullest expression. The Tower as an architectural building, a site, a multilayered implication and a reminiscance of majestic stillness, is the object, there are no additional visual elements in the tower.

The ‘brain’ of the Arsenale awakes in a ten minute composition. Bee sounds mirror outside and inside activity. They bounce on the flirring light patterns inside the tower’s walls and walkways that are created through the reflection and in the rhythm of the water surrounding the tower. Rhythmical and instrumental sounds in the composition pick up the movement of historical and actual outer activites on the Arsenale. Real sounds of workers and shipyard life from the outside merge with the composition, enlarging the enclosed tower space.

The collaboration of sound and location, the visitor’s sense of awareness and listening capacity, creates a platform where the visitor can experience and evolve its individual, spatial and acoustic perception. Hemm’s work enhances the underlying features of a location in a precise and respectful way while ‘the compositions seem to come from nowhere, straight out of the location’. The collaboration enhances the potential of both the Porta Nuova Tower, sound and visitor.

Tanja Hemm has since 2004 worked on about 70 locations: small, large, outdoor, indoor, historic, contemporary sites, in private and public spaces, at art fairs, sound festivals, internationally. In her spatial sound art she uses the potential of sound as an amplifier for the potential of a location, for its transformation and for an outlook about what could be. Her work is as intense as it is a light breeze, it develops from a cultural as well as a scientific stand. Hemm comes from trained and educated  musical, written and spoken word background. She holds an M.A. in American Literature and Radio, has worked as a writer for radio for ten years before focusing on site specific work. Her artistic work borders sound art, performance, conceptual art and recently mobile art (where she links site specific sound with the medium of the smartphone application). Tanja Hemm has lived in the US, Australia and New Zealand and is now based close to Nuremberg. She lectures on the topics of site specific sound, spatial art, location based mobile sound, writing, listening and silence and teaches Media English and Advanced Sound Design at the Hochschule Osnabrueck.

‘ARSENALE BRAIN’ is part of the European project www.secondchanceproject.eu.

Porta Nuova Tower is situated at the North of Arsenale, near the site of the13th Architectural Biennale, Venice 2012

For more information on the artist visit www.tanjahemm.de

On occasion of OFFEN Auf AEG 2012, the Werkstatt 141, pilot investment of the project Second Chance in Nuremberg, has been inagurated.

You can find the complete programme of the weekend here

Furthermore, local artists based on the site of the former AEG presented their latest works within the exhibition Parcours II and their studios for interested visitors.

Among that, cultural highlights like the BEAST – Kunst- und Kulturunternehmen, the design fair Frisches Design 2012 and the presentation of the EU Project Second Chance formed an unique parcours of contemporary art.

Check the full programme (in German) here

More information on www.aufaeg.de

Auf AEG

Fürther Straße 244-254

Muggenhofer Straße 132/135

90429 Nuremberg, Germany

RogLab is a production, educational and presentation space. It will also include the 3D-Workshop for rapid prototyping, in which professionals and students from the three target fields, as well as the non-professional public, will have an opportunity to shape their ideas into palpable reality.

The RogLab programme will be based on collaboration with companies and NGOs as well as cultural and educational institutions. The first partners will be chosen following a public call for potential partners. RogLab is a pilot investment of the European project Second Chance for the future Rog Centre.

Architecture: Jure Kotnik