Curated by

Lungomare

Participant

orizzontale

Collaborators

Vivi Maso della Pieve / Officine Vispa
Spazio autogestito 77
Fridays for Future Southtyrol

The public space that pauses temporarily

As a prelude to the artist in residency 2020, Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo from Lungomare and the architects Margherita Manfra and Nasrin Mohiti Asli from orizzontale discussed last 29 April 2020 about the current condition of the public space during the corona epidemic.

You can watch and listen to the conversation as a video or audio track.

Language: italian

 

 


Public acts

En plein air.

The artist in residency 2020 Lungomare with orizzontale started with three public acts. A series of practical exercises made to explore and re-inhabit the public spaces of the city of Bolzano.

The shock of the pandemic tamed us temporarily and put us in a status of pseudo-captivity. The public space was put into pause and thus also the possibility to use it, the freedom to inhabit it and to perceive it as a social meeting place.

For several weeks now we have been entering and meeting each other again in the public spaces and coexisting with its new rules that regulate mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The laws are there to draw physical and spatial boundaries and to control our behaviour. Barrier tapes are used to limit public spaces from use and floor patterns determine our movements and our “protected zones”.

Now is time to activate our thoughts and actions, we want to cross the threshold and move out of our comfort zone. We want to re-inhabit what surrounds us and perceive our right to the outside space.

Public act #1

                   

Delimited space.
Protection or exclusion?

20.06.20 / 11.00 – 13.00 / Via Cagliari 

1 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 2 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 3 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 4 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 5 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare

As a first approach to get out of our captive state, we gave shape to a delimited environment.
With signal tapes a confrontation place was created to reflect on borders as zones of protection and exclusion.

With the participation of
Spazio autogestito 77 and Fridays for Future South Tyrol

Public act #2

                   

Free spaces.
Possibility or denial?

20.06.20 / 16.00 – 18.00 / Alexander Langer Square (Lungotalvera)

1 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 2 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 3 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 4 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 5 / 5 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare

During the second public act we reflected on the relationships that the city of Bolzano promotes and allows. We played with the social distancing rules and using a drawing instrument we measured and visualised the space. How can we interact with each other? In which spaces of the city can we be children?

with the participation of
Officine Vispa

Public act #3


Domestic and wild space.
Is there a balance?

20.06.20 / 21.00 – 22.30 / Piazza Università

1 / 6 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 2 / 6 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 3 / 6 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 4 / 6 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 5 / 6 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare 6 / 6 Photos by Claudia Corrent, courtesy by Lungomare

The last act posed questions to the city of Bolzano and its inhabitants and produced a series of pictures (wishes). The collected fragments are a collection of impressions that the inhabitants of the city have shared with orizzontale. What kind of images are there of the city of Bolzano? Which images can we imagine?

Co-Carts

In June 2020, when orizzontale travelled through the city of Bolzano after lockdown undertaking on- site research and meeting experts, the desire was born to revive public space and create tools for collective action.

Co-Carts are vehicles for the community. They can be attached to a bicycle, and their shape and function have the potential to change urban space.

Co-Carts are pop-up devices, built to be manipulated and transformed, to enter into synergy with each other and with their context and to amplify the relationship between the inhabitants and the city.

1 / 14 Co-Carts, test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 2 / 14 Co-Carts, the Faro,test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 3 / 14 Co-Carts, the Attivista Mobile, test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 4 / 14 Co-Carts, the Strillone, test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 5 / 14 Co-Carts, the Acchiapasogni, test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 6 / 14 Co-Carts, la Bravetta, test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 7 / 14 Co-Carts, test-ride, October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 8 / 14 Co-Carts, test-ride, October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 9 / 14 Co-Carts, test-ride in October 2020, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Giulia Faccin 10 / 14 Co-Carts first sketches, ©orizzontale 11 / 14 Co-Carts first sketches, ©orizzontale 12 / 14 Co-Carts first sketches, ©orizzontale 13 / 14 Co-Carts first sketches, ©orizzontale 14 / 14 Co-Carts first sketches, ©orizzontale

The installation of a megaphone amplifies protesting voices, giving important messages their necessary acoustic strength; Temporary exhibitions can be held on the vehicles, they are equipped with a table that invites you to do things together, a cinema screen for projections, a telescope that is both telescope and kaleidoscope, and flaps and doors that create a temporary space for action.

Co-Carts will be able to be rented and used by Bolzano citizens. To borrow them it will be necessary to share some basic values defined jointly by Lungomare, orizzontale and the other partners involved:

Co-Carts are eccentric, open, and anti-racist. They do not produce personal profit. They support inclusiveness, deconstructing existing categories, not only creating a space but celebrating it. Co-Cartspromote freedom of opinion, are multilingual, cross-cultural, and trigger discussion, debate, reactions. The Co-Carts are slow but agile, both quiet and noisy. They don’t disturb traffic but they do alter it, and with absolute certainty, they don’t emit exhaust gases! They are vehicles that open up new possibilities and stimulate the imagination.

 

For more info about the project > www.lungomare.org/co-carts

 

The Co-Carts will be built collectively from 17 to 21 October at the public workshop in the Lungomare garden.

1 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 2 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 3 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 4 / 17 Production of the Co-Carts with Piero and Nasrin 5 / 17 Production of the Co-Carts with Piero and Nasrin 6 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 7 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 8 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 9 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 10 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 11 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 12 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 13 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 14 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 15 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 16 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent 17 / 17 Co-Carts Workshop, a project by orizzontale. Courtesy Lungomare. Image by Claudia Corrent
Lungomare presents Co-Carts

Impressions of the test-rides in October 2020. Video made by Giulia Faccin
Co-Carts Parade

Friday, 23. July 2021
6-9 pm

Since last year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival for the presentation of the Co-Carts project could not take place, we would now like to use this nice summer moment to present and celebrate the vehicles for the community in a Parade together with orizzontale and all project partners in the public spaces of the city of Bolzano.

The Co-Carts Parade will take place on Friday 23 July, starting at 18:00 at Lungomare, moving on to Piazzale Langer over to Ponte Talvera, to the green area near Roma-Bridge and ending at Mignone Park.

The Co-Carts Parade will be accompanied by the artist, singer-songwriter and performer Yomer, who will present the vehicles in a performative way. We invite all city residents and passers-by to join us to get to know the vehicles.