Image: Table Writing workshop hosted by Maike Statz at NOGOODS, photo by Mila Elisabeth Larvoll
WHO IS 'THE PUBLIC'?
Date: Wednesday 8th May
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Meeting Place: St. Petri church
Destination: Mikro Kaffi at RyStøperigata 6, 4014 Stavanger
Language: English
Coffee and snacks will be served complimentary.
Hosted by: City of Stavanger on behalf of NEB-STAR and CAS – Contemporary Art Stavanger
In current city planning and building practices there is a desire to include ‘the public’ in these processes.
Who this ‘public’ is however and how to create meaningful participatory methods needs to be interrogated.
What is at stake when we try to create spaces for everyone? How can we rethink inclusion as co-creation?
What can we learn from queer and feminist spatial practices? Through this talk and workshop Maike Statz invites you to consider the importance and potential of friction and difference in space and space-making practices.
We will begin by meeting at St Petri in the city centre of Stavanger and silently walking together through Pedersgata to X. While walking participants will focus on their own role in and experience of the street. From here the workshop will continue with a presentation of Maike’s text Building A Better World, written for Contemporary Art Stavanger and NEB-Star, selected projects, and site-writing exercises. Site-writing, a practice developed by Jane Rendell, allows writers to explore their own position in relation to particular objects, places, or fields of study. Together we will reflect on our own (possibly conflicting) needs and desires, speculating how these could shape future forms of Pedersgata and public space more broadly.
Maike Statz (AUS) is a Bergen-based interior architect and artist interested in the relationship between bodies and space. Her practice spans curation, publishing, writing, and design. Through her work she is committed to challenging the inequalities that exist in space and spatial practices. Current areas of interest include situated writing methods, queer and feminist spatial practices, the relationship between emotion, identity and space, and rethinking architecture through speculative fiction. In 2022 Statz co-founded the project space NOGOODS and the magazine bias with Danja Burchard, now run with Francesca Scapinello. Recent design and curatorial projects include Hosting Space (June 2023) at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen and Dissident Publics (May-June 2023) with NOGOODS and Exutoire at ROM in Oslo. Maike enjoys swimming, feminist science fiction and making furniture.
About NEB-STAR: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101079952.
