The concept behind Living City:
A city is more than buildings and bureaucracy, without people and relationships 'big' or 'small,' all-encompassing or hidden, life changing or life sustaining, without you and me and us, the city would not exist. The goal of this project is to show the city not through architectural details or popular events, but through the stories of individuals. This is the true heartbeat of the city.
Living City "live" - Collaboration & audience participation.
Living City began with a collaborative art project that involved over 12 artists, performers, video editors and skilled individuals, who together collected over 35 stories from audience members in Monteral. This event took place as part of Montreal's biggest night of culture and visual art - Nuit Blanche, on March 2nd, 2013. It took place at the MainLine theater as part of Art Matter's //IN BETWEEN\\ festival: https://www.facebook.com/events/465811323491691/ (application included a juried competition.) The original Living City, Nuit Blanche event' page on Facebook can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/112591055592699/
The artwork took place in three spaces: a cinematic space, with a video projected and theater seating, a mysterious reception room, where guides invited audience members to participate, a secret backstage story collecting room, and live collective video creation onsite. There were 3 cycles which included intermittent screenings of collected stories and 3 storycollecting participatory performance rounds.
The next "live" story collecting and video screening event will be taking place on April 15 at the Design Festa Gallery HARAJUKU:
Address: Gallery WEST/3-20-18, Jingumae,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Self-guided story collecting stations will be located at the entrance to both Design Festa Gallery's East and West locations from April 8th, 2013, to April 15th, 2013.
You can also complete a self-guided story telling experience through this website. See: http://www.cityalive.info/submit-my-story.html & http://www.cityalive.info/participating.html.
The artwork took place in three spaces: a cinematic space, with a video projected and theater seating, a mysterious reception room, where guides invited audience members to participate, a secret backstage story collecting room, and live collective video creation onsite. There were 3 cycles which included intermittent screenings of collected stories and 3 storycollecting participatory performance rounds.
The next "live" story collecting and video screening event will be taking place on April 15 at the Design Festa Gallery HARAJUKU:
Address: Gallery WEST/3-20-18, Jingumae,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Self-guided story collecting stations will be located at the entrance to both Design Festa Gallery's East and West locations from April 8th, 2013, to April 15th, 2013.
You can also complete a self-guided story telling experience through this website. See: http://www.cityalive.info/submit-my-story.html & http://www.cityalive.info/participating.html.