sa sa bassac - parsons media release 13 jan 2013.pdf

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#18 (upstairs) Sothearos BoulevardPO Box 2181 Phnom Penh 3, Cambodia

+855 (0)17 774 864www.sasabassac.com

SA SA BASSAC is pleased to announce two events in collaboration with

visiting students and professors from New York Citys Parsons The New

School for Design. These events investigate the idea of Phnom Penh as

a Living Arts City.

Living Arts City, a workshop

Public Presentation - Friday 18 January, 5-7pm

Urban Interventions, an exhibition

Public View - January 15-18, 10-6pm

Living Arts City, a Workshop

January 14-18: student workshop

January 18, 5-7pm: public presentation

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Living Arts City, A Workshopis a collaboration between SA SA BASSAC and theUrban

Design BS Programat Parsons The New School for Design. It is also part ofLiving

Arts Citya multi-course practicum which links multiple courses and events atThe New

Schoolto provide an intellectual context forSeason of Cambodia, a major international

arts festival taking place in New York City throughout April and May of 2013.

Participants in Living Arts City Workshop will conduct five days of fieldwork structured

through the exact urban sites of the artwork of selected Phnom Penh artists. Learning froman experience of walking and documenting a site with a guide, meeting people, and taking

time to understand a given situation, students will then reflect and expand on the themes

and practices of art making explored by the artists.

Learning from Cambodia artists, this workshop will ask the following questions: How can

innovative community-based practices in arts and education that elude rational notions of

urban governance participate in the transitions of post-crisis cities? How can we as design

students facilitate Cambodian design students, artists and other urban actors to

foreground the operation and production of the informal cultural ecologies in Cambodia?

Where else do we see this happening in other parts of the world? For example how canboth Phnom Penh and New York be sustained as a living arts cities?
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Living Arts City, A Workshopfrom January 14th-18th 2013 includes students from Parsons

The New School for Design, New York, Chulalongkorn University International Program for

Design and Architecture, Bangkok and Royal University of Fine Arts, RUFA, Phnom Penh.

It is coordinated by Victoria Marshall and Brian McGrath, with teaching fellows, Joshua

Brandt and Jonathan Lapalme.

Urban Interventions, an exhibition

January 15-18, 10-6pm

(Above: image by Lindsey Devers)

The exhibit consists of student outcomes from the Parsons The New School For Design

studio course, Urban Interventions. In this course, students developed thematically linking

interventions based off their research of Phnom Penh visiting artists as part of the Living

Arts Cityin association with the Season of Cambodia, NYC, resulting socially engaged art

and design. Projects ranged from the static object to spontaneous interventions.

Urban Interventionsare inherently playful and accessible to anyone as both art and

design, yet perhaps its biggest impact is that of surprise and generosity. This now global

practice boldly attempts to apply an additional layer to the urban landscape, a total use, a

ply that suggests that there is a more complete relationship to be had with the consuming

public as the maker and the user.

In this studio, students investigated possibilities of using the means and methods of public

art and street art in order to make alienated places personal and impersonal spaces

thoughtful. In Stages, students conceived, prepared and disseminated built or performed

works that are accessible and integrated into NYC neighborhoods.

Urban Interventionsexplored both the history and practical methodologies of

contemporary public art and street art with an emphasis placed on public interventions that

serve as communal ruptures into utilitarian urban environments. Students had to ask

themselves how would their interests and focus translate into the public sphere? Through

research and art/design responses, student developed a critical understanding of the

visual landscape and the role social agency plays in the complex processes of urban

transformation.


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Links

http://theoryofurbanform2012.wordpress.com/

http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/bs-urban-design/

http://www.livingartscity.com

http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/http://cuinda.com/home.php

http://www.rufa.edu.kh/

About SA SA BASSAC

SA SA BASSAC is a gallery and resource center dedicated to creating, facilitating,producing, and sharing contemporary visual culture in and from Cambodia.

About New York Citys Parsons The New School for Design

A pioneer in art and design education since its founding in 1896, Parsons has cultivatedoutstanding artists, designers, scholars, businesspeople, and community leaders for morethan a century. Today, when design thinking is increasingly being employed to solvecomplex global problems, Parsons is leading new approaches to art and design education.

Participating Artists

From Cambodia:KhvaySamnang, Lim Sokchanlina, SvaySareth, Than Sok, VandyRattana

From Parsons:Rosy Chayo, Lindsey Devers, Ian Gardiner, Nicholas Kleist, Monica Lee, Laura Moen,Mohammed Sardar, Madison Stirling, Melissa Trevens, Zoe YatesLocation

#18 2nd floor, Sothearos Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Website

www.sasabassac.com

Contact

Erin GleesonArtistic Director, SA SA [email protected] 507 917
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