Broken City Lab - Urban Trend: Urban Psychology
Broken City Lab
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Urban Trend: Urban Psychology
State of the Cities Address, 2013
58 sec.
Learn more about Urban Psychology on 100urbantrends.org: http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100ur...
This video was commissioned as part of Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from October 11, 2013 - Jan 5, 2014. Learn more at http://www.guggenheim.org/100urbantrends.
Bio:
Broken City Lab (brokencitylab.org) is an artist-led interdisciplinary collective and nonprofit organization located in Windsor, Ontario. Working to explore and unfold curiosities around locality, infrastructures, education, and creative practice leading toward civic change, Broken City Lab's projects, events, workshops, and installations offer an injection of disruptive creativity into a situation, surface, place, or community. Their projects and research have been featured in Fuse Magazine, Public Journal, C Magazine, Creative Time's Archive of Socially Engaged Practice, Next American City, Alternatives, GOOD, the National Post, the Toronto Star, NPR (WDET, NPHR), CBC Radio One, CBC television, the Huffington Post, Tree Hugger, and the Atlantic Cities. Members have also presented and exhibited across North America at institutions including the Art Gallery of Windsor; TRUCK Gallery, Calgary; Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario; Propeller Centre, Toronto; Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario; the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario; Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario; Nuit Blanche Toronto; and the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA). The group and its members have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Windsor, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Statement:
State of the Cities Address (2013) is a proposal for a decade-long series of annual aerial announcements that will trace the line of the international border between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan. On July 2 at 12 pm each year for ten years, a plane will fly over the Detroit River trailing a banner addressing the state of the border cities, two post-industrial cities connected geographically and by a shared labor history, a range of pressing sustainability issues, and a challenging economic trajectory. Through the prompt (or provocation) of the banner, the hope is to encourage community members to find a resonant (or discordant) position of solidarity with the realities of their cities and to spur reflection, action, and imagination.