Thursday May 13, 2004, at 6.30 pm the SMS Manhattan Shadow Project at Van Alen

[stevan vukovic]

Thursday May 13, 2004, at 6.30 pm ? the SMS Manhattan Shadow Project will be presented at Van Alen Institute in New York,  30 West 22nd Street, www.vanalen.org, phone 2129247000

Manhattan Shadow Project is a workshop of the School of Missing Studies [SMS], held at Van Alen Institute in New York City from May 10-14, 2004, to investigate the shadow in the metropolis, as it takes on an array of physical, digital and metaphorical appearances and meanings. A presentation will be held at Van Alen Institute Thursday May 13, 2004, at 6.30 pm with a reception following

SMS is a collaborative initiative of Liesbeth Bik (artist, Rotterdam), Katherine Carl (writer/curator, New York), Ana Dzokic (architect, Rotterdam), Srdjan Jovanovic Vajs (architect, New York), Ivan Kucina (architect, Belgrade), Marc Neelen (architect, Rotterdam), Milica Topalovic (architect, Rotterdam), Jos Van der Pol (artist, Rotterdam), Sabine von Fischer (architect, Zurich) and Stevan Vukovic (writer/curator, Belgrade).

School of Missing Studies (SMS)  provides a flexible educational platform and a network for international study and exchange on cultural issues related to the urban environment in cities marked by or currently undergoing political, social, and cultural transition. SMS will provide productive research and project opportunities for young professionals in architecture and art who are dealing with what is ?missing? in their studies with regard to processes of local urban change. Participants in SMS will explore the smooth area among established disciplines such as architecture, art, sociology and cultural studies to bring to light the missing phenomena of urban transition in Belgrade, Munich, New York, Rotterdam and Zurich. 

Manhattan Shadow Project is a workshop whose investigation is sparked by the current crisis of architectural and artistic forms as a physical mass or symbol that can identify and redefine the metropolis. Can a metropolis be captured by its negative? Can it be reshaped through its shadow? The zoning laws of the 1930s developed by Hugh Ferris, dubbed the master of darkness, will jump-start the workshop?s research on the urban importance of the physical, visible shadow. The city casts many metaphorical shadows concerning individuals? sense of belonging, the metropolis? projection of its identity on a scale which surpasses its physical confines, or neighborhoods becoming shadows of their former selves in light of tourism. The digital shadow of the cosmopolis is the disconnection from electronic and information networks despite the metropolis? promise for ultimate connectivity.


The workshop participants were students of architecture from Belgrade (Dubravka Sekulic, Dejan Mrdja, Andreja Miric and Jelena Mitrovic) and New York, under the critique and direction by SMS [Srdjan Jovanovic Vajs, Ivan Kucina,  Katherine Carl  and Stevan Vukovic ], Van Alen [Jonathan Cohen-Litant], Maria Lind, Sina Najafi, Dan Sherer, Katie Salen, Zoe Ryan, Nebojsa Seric-Shoba, Jenny PerlinChris Sharples, Anna Dyson, Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Valerie Tevere.

School of Missing Studies is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York; Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin and the US Embassy in Serbia and Montenegro.

 

 

 

 



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