HOW TO… Art & Public Space

Public space is no longer what it once was. After all, great potential rests in every transformation and opens up new spaces that must be filled with new visions, playful models and utopias. The working methods in interim spaces, the social fabric and its public perceptions have shifted in times where wearing masks is required, physical distancing and distance regulations and must be questioned anew. This urgency opens up possibilities — from new forms of presentation, communication and protest to alternative structures of acting as a community.
As experts in this area, Philine Rinnert and Merel Smitt will meet for the first time. Together they provide an invitation to an open work meeting. Here, these shifts will be named and the first approaches for collaboratively dealing with them should be found in order to up new common grounds and playing fields within our society. The (art) bubble has been popped — what direction are we going to blow our collective energy in?

Initiated by and featuring: Philine Rinnert (director, stage designer, DIE VIELEN e.V.), Merel Smitt (independent artist, Rotterdam)