all about SUD: March 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

How does water have an impact on the use of space and planning of the city? Advertising as invasion of the Public Place: An ordinary & recognized calamity? How do people, art and public space interact within the city? Please find the ArchiAfrika - March 2011 Newsletter.

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The Salon Urbain de Douala (SUD) – a tri-annual festival for public art – is both an event and a process. It is realized and designed by Doual’art, center for contemporary art in Douala, Cameroon. Every third year, the city of Douala is transformed into a stage for an array of public and artistic events; performances, sculptures, architecture, and temporary installations in public space. During the three year interval between each SUD, artists in residency are invited to prepare projects for locations of their choice in Douala. Artists from outside Douala are invited for residencies in two terms. During the first period, artists immerse themselves in the local, social, physical, and artistic realities of Douala. The second term, which is related directly to the SUD, is dedicated to realizing an artwork in Douala’s public space. The SUD events and processes together form the starting point for urban research: Doual’art – as a laboratory for such research – is primarily concerned with the extent to which artistic interventions influence the daily lives of Douala’s inhabitants.
At each triennial, a theme provides a framework for the artistic interventions. This theme is studied by focus groups during the Ars & Urbis, and in cooperation with the University and the Urban Council. For the first SUD’s edition, artists have opened discussions on various urban themes as Heritage, Secondary Economy, Recycling, and the Rural Urbanity (‘rurbanity’) of African cities. The theme of the SUD2010 program for December 2010 is water.

Friday, March 25, 2011

ArchiAfica's March Newsletter devoted to Douala

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