Urban Organics: Figuratively describing the country of Matrizenzubehoerleute… :: May 3, 2009; 12:00 - 4:30 pm :: DIY Art Centre, 114-116 Amersham Vale, New Cross :: Call for Participants: Places are limited, please wrote to events [at] cultura3.net with the heading “Urban Organics Workshop.”

The city presents an unmapped, sparsely inhabited place, extravagantly rich in unexplored resources, waiting as it were for the arrival of someone to give form to the latent possibilities which lay beyond regular spatial comprehension. The poet, wandering describes reflections on street life, overlaid by the desire to develop typographies and document of human life. The civilian traveler as they traverse the urban terrain, passing amongst concrete corridors of the imagination remakes the city through forming their own reflective typographies. Looking then at our perception of city scenes and urban space as a hybrid of different forms, “Figuratively describing the country of Matrizenzubehoerleute….” (ma-tritsen.tzu-behuer.loyter) provides participants with a tool-kit which will allow them to trace and unveil the creative potential of their every day surroundings through a series of collaborative exercises. The group will undertake explorations of the space surrounding the DIY Art Centre, observe and reproduce behavioral patterns and begin to develop the basis of a new language through archetypal typography.

The workshop will provide an introduction to techniques which empower the participants to further understand how we interact with our surroundings. The group will explore the urban spaces surrounding the Art Centre along a perimeter between two lands drawn from places which belong neither to the ordinary, nor the Other, but which are imbued with a presence of both; just as the sky can be seen to fall down towards the sea.

This introductory public workshop is open to people of all disciplines and levels of experience.