Dienstag, Juni 09, 2009
subvision - hafencity - art, money and real estate [extern blog/text link]
The story of art and culture in Hamburg's Hafencity is a series of flops. Although considerable amounts of public money have been spent, what else would you expect from ill-titled projects like "10° Kunst - Wege in die Hafencity" ("10 Degrees Art - Ways into the Hafencity")? Seen by nobody, such efforts went internationally ignored and unrecognised by the artworld. Many Hamburgers, once proud of the city's art in public space projects, are embarrassed and quickly change the subject.
But even in sleepy Hamburg with it's un-inovative boom and it's placid real estate market, the Florida talk of "creative cities" got about - and... [read the comlete text]This article has been published in the US-Magazine "Proximity" (Chicago), issue 3, Winter 2008 - 2009
