Julia Marie Englert, Kirsten Plöhn, Tino Holzmann and Manuel Gies

From “Sounds of Property” to “D[é]rive Detroit”, a Soundwalk and Sound Installation

@ Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival, 2023

D[é]rive Detroit was a participatory and research based sound project by Julia Marie Englert, Manuel Gies, Tino Holzmann und Kirsten Plöhn that was developed during a three-week residency at FILTER Detroit. The work assembles sound fragments of everyday realities and through that negotiates themes of (in)accessibility, ownership and responsibility.

For the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival they created a soundwalk and a sound installation on 7 Ocotber 2023, which started FILTER Detroit backyard and ended with a sound and listening performance at Jar House, a neighborhood community space.

As part of the FILTER Detroit Residency, these four tied in with this year's thematic focus on sound and combined their fields of work to develop the participatory sound sculpture "D[é]rive Detroit ". In the spirit of the Situationist International they explored Campau/Banglatown, Hamtramck towards downtown Detroit by drifting. The result is a sound piece, a participatory soundwalk and a sound installation as well as a zine. By focusing on soundscapes, they avoided the otherwise highly overstimulated images of Detroit. Instead, the work assembles fragments of everyday realities and through that negotiates themes of (in)accessibility, ownership and responsibility.

Listen to the soundscapes => https://derivedetroit.bandcamp.com/album/d-rive-detroit

In addition to their Soundwalk and sound Installation the four artists produced a ZINE. Read more about it in

This residency and their public presentation has been made possible with the generous support of BKM (Behörde für Kultur und Medien) Hamburg, Goethe Institut Chicago, Zimbabwe Cultral Center Detroit (ZCCD) as well as the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Fetsival and FILTER Detroit.

Research Residents, Fall of 2023

Julia Marie Englert, Kirsten Plöhn, Tino Holzmann and Manuel Gies

From „Sound(s) of Property“ to “D[é]rive Detroit”

As part of the FILTER Detroit Residency, these four tied in with this year 2023 thematic focus on sound and combine their fields of work to develop the participatory sound sculpture "sound(s) of property". By exploring the sounds of property in the city of Detroit, they negotiate issues of (in)accessibility, ownership, and responsibility through the medium of sound. The idea of property and ownership is linked to work, money, security, inequality - and the city. The research residents have gone in search of sounds and explored their meaning in the context of property relations in the city to develop a soundwalk, a sound installation and a zine titled “D[é]rive Detroit”. Among others their have followed the traces of collectively organized, private and public spaces. What stories do these spaces tell about life and change in Detroit, and what connections can be made to Hamburg, their home town?

Below some information on the research residents expertise, work contexts and projects:

JULIA MARIE ENGLERT

As an independent designer, artist and urban sociologist Julia Marie Englert (*1992) works at the interface of both professions and has her living and working center in Hamburg. Her work is characterized by conception, collaborative program curation, (urban) research, cooperative planning and implementation as well as design and art – mostly in public space. There has been numerous collaborations with various local and international institutions and collectives such as the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main, the Summer of Architecture Hamburg, the Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, the Federation of Visual Artists, Art in Public Space and many more. Since 2018, she is active in the association HALLO: e.V. and works in its projects WERK, Hallo: Festspiele and Schaltzentrale. Since 2020 she is one of the project managers of Alster-Bille-Elbe-PARKS, a Open Space and Art Project in Hamburg. In addition, she organizes the children‘s arts festival Lüttville and is active in (urban) research.

KIRSTEN PLÖHN

Kirsten Plöhn (*1989) lives and works as an urban designer and artist in Hamburg. Her work operates at the intersection of research, practice and design of urban space. She is interested in cooperative design processes, questions around property, and practices of commoning. In the last years she has realized participatory, collective and site-specific projects between architecture, sculpture, media and urban design. As part of the collective HALLO:, she has developed participatory and site-specific projects, including the collaborative art-in-public-space project "touch don't touch", the three-day radio program "Capital H - Of Soil, Property and Places of Commons” and the neighborhood archive “Bille Raum Archiv“.

TINO HOLZMANN

In his work, Tino Holzmann (*1985) deals with perspectives on and perceptions of everyday structures. He conceives projects with the claim to initiate site-specific and participatory design processes. He works in the field of Critical Spatial Practices and develops – starting from local space and the people who shape it – social, architectural and discursive works. Tino Holzmann studied Social Design at the HFBK Hamburg. Since 2014, he has collaborated in numerous international and national projects. With his audiovisual radio play "From Moritzpark to Michaelburg" he was nominated for the German Design Graduates Award. In 2022, during his 6 month residency in Augustusburg, he developed a vacant building into a community kitchen in a collective of 3 artists together with the neighborhood. 

MANUEL GIES

Manuel Gies has been initiating soundwalks, performative walks and interventions in public spaces since 2016. In doing so, he deals with the perception of landscapes and living spaces – their atmospheres, sounds, vibrations and interaction with people. Under the name Manuel Scuzzo he experiments and composes with everyday sounds from the city and nature. Indispensable instruments for his work are microphones, effect devices and samplers. With their help he explores noises and sounds, which he then puts into new contexts and arranges. From many small fragments sound collages or music are created, a mixture of experimental music, electronics and easy listening. He produces sounds and soundtracks for film and theater productions or for podcasts and radio plays. At schools, theaters or other cultural institutions he offers participative and artistic projects for children and adults. These include compositions in the field of experimental music, podcasts, radio plays but also walking formats and artistic interventions. Since 2019 he is a member of the association Rhizomen e.V.. Manuel Gies grew up in Kassel and studied cultural studies in Lüneburg with a focus on sound studies. Since 2007 he lives in Hamburg and works as a musician and cultural scientist.

Kiera Pitts - Living Solidarity Map Quilt of Detroit

Research Resident, Summer of 23

From mid August until mid September US-born artist Kiera Pitts is returning to the Midwest to begin her FILTER Detroit residency, and explore the many facets of community within Campau/Banglatown and beyond through the creation of a "Living Solidarity Map Quilt of Detroit". Using Detroit's rich quilting tradition and sounds as inspiration, she will sew a quilted map of the city using local fabrics and natural dyes, focusing on the neighborhoods directly around the residency to record the many ways citizens support one another through community organizing.

Kiera Pitts is an American multi-media artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Coming from a Chicago Theatre background, her work spans from natural dyeing and foraging to oil painting. Since moving to Berlin, she has focused her work around a regenerative art practice that focuses on reflecting the city she lives within, whether this is creating art from waste from the street, foraging in the local parks, or hosting skill share workshops.

For more information please see her website www.womanofextremes.com and you can find her on instagram @womanofextremes.

Anke Huyben - Skin Diary

Research Resident, Summer of 23

Recent Cranbrook graduate (2020), Anke Huyben, returns from her hometown of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to spend a summer residency in Detroit. Trained as a jewelry designer and certified metalsmith, she is interested in the skin as a field of artistic research, whether as a protective shell or as a biological surface that is constantly changing shape and adapting.

„The skin is often a metaphor for life itself. A skin is never blank, but in itself is a kind of diary, carrying traces that have been left behind. With the skin that protects you, literally and figuratively, in which you live like a house, which is your home. I captured the temporary house I have here in polymer clay, which is the same color as my own skin. Through mark-making and experiments in texture, new imperfections appear, offering new security, a new home. Is that possible? No, I know it's not. Because surface prints will never replace my skin, never erase traumas, but a temporary placebo is also desirable.“

During her time at FILTER Detroit, she explores, experiments, and documents her experiences with various textures that resemble human skin and capabilities.

For more information about her work, please visit:

www.ankehuyben.com

 ‘Free Jazz’ by Sgart

Solo Exhibition, May 19 – June 11, 2023

Opening Reception with the Artist:

Friday, May 19, 6 to 9 pm

"Free Jazz" Sgart's first solo exhibition is now on view at  FILTER Detroit. Join us for an opening artist reception on May 19th from  6 to 9 pm. Discover SGart´s abstract paintings, collages and drawings in a studio space setting decorated with traces of his musical past and present.

 "In my world abstract expression is a kin to free form jazz. Instead of creating music I create marks then I let my intuitive side react to those improvised marks until I see something in the material that resonates to me"

Over the past few months Sgart has spent days and nights at his home studio, working on his latest pieces. He is often using found, mass produced, materials of consumer culture in his works. This materiality has a language all its own and its Sgart's endeavor to let such materials speak their truth in a harmonious and dissonant way, transforming known objects into free form statements.

Working as an experimental expressionist within the arts and electronic music is his way and response to navigate in a world and city shaped by consumer culture and different layers of cultural heritage.

 SGart is a Detroit born and raised colorist and explorer. He has traveled the world as an electronic musician for years before reuniting to his background in painting during the lockdown. Some of his newest VINYL productions will be available during the exhibition.

Location:

FILTER Detroit, 12645 Moran Street, 48212 Detroit

=> Please use Back Yard Entrance

FILTER Detroit Hours:

Saturday May 20  - Noon to 4pm

Sunday May 21 - Noon to 4 pm

Friday May 26 – 3 to 6 pm

All the other times by appointment only – please send an Email to: filterdetroit@gmail.com

Kathrin Wildner -Soundscapes in Detroit, 2022

Research Resident, Summer of 22

Berlin-based urban anthropologist Kathrin Wildner explores and maps soundscapes of cities. As FILTER Detroit´s first summer resident since the COVID-19 pandemic she has been invited to search for the diverse sounds and voices of the Campau/Banglatown neighborhood and beyond. Kathrin Wildner is an urban anthropologist who explores the "production of the city" through sound mapping and other ethnographic methods to approach the complex relatedness and multi-layered levels of planning, use and perception in urban space (http://www.kwildner.net). As an urban researcher, she has realized projects in Bogotá, Mexico City, Istanbul, New York and Marseille, among others, dealing with the geographies of sound.

As a collector of sounds and images, she is always in search of the city´s soundscapes. Walking, talking, listening, observing, taking notes and images, are tools that Wildner engages in while capturing diverse perspectives of sounds.

During her three week residency Wildner has been exploring the local soundscape through soundwalks and field recordings, following the interplay of architectures, institutions, actors, discourses, and narratives that shape the neighborhood and the city of Detroit. Together with FILTER Detroit she plans to produce a soundscape map of and about Campau/ Banglatown and Hamtramck. Explore her findings:

Detroit Soundblog Kathrin Wildner

Kathrin Wildner's stay has been kindly supported by Consulate General Chicago of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Richard von der Schulenburg - Sound Relations in Detroit

Research Resident, Fall of 22

As a fall resident, Richard van der Schulenburg traces current musical contexts in Detroit. The Campau/Banglatown neighborhood, where FILTER Detroit's research residency is located, is going to be the starting point and source of his work.

At the end he will present his music and compositions in two sets during Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival, 8th of October, starting 1 pm and 5pm, music on back porch, at FILTER Detroit =>Hamtramck Neighborhoods Arts Festival

Sound File of the Performance “RVDS plays for the Moon” during the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival

Richard von der Schulenburg is known for his musical work as a genre transcending DJ under his pseudonym RVDS with releases on well-known labels such as Smallville Records or Uncanny Valley. Richard is a musician, composer, engineer and DJ that experiments with sounds, specifically jazz,

classic and electronic music. After moving to Hamburg von der Schulenburg immersed himself in the cultural scene playing live gigs with a tendency towards comedy, djaying, and performing in clubs and galleries.

 He has many talents when it comes to discover, apply, grow and mediate sound. Among others he curated and performed “Barock lebt!” (engl. Barock is alive) or created an Italo Disco ego named Riccardi Schola, who performed at Club Bert Tina at Kampnagel (Hamburg). He is resident DJ at Pudel Club and played alongside heroes such as Anthony “Shake” Shakir, Kyle Hall, Scott Grooves and others. In collaborative manner he works with different musicians, artists and film makers such as Jacques Palminger.

More information on Richard van der Schulenburg please visit:

RVDS (DJ)

Live Sound community work

Experimental Music

Sky Walking

The research stay of Richard von der Schulenburg at FILTER Detroit is kindly supported by The Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg (Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg) and Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Chicago

Livia Chesley - Permanent FILTER Detroit resident 2020-2022

Performer and Writer

Livia Chesley was FILTER Detroit´s permanent artist in residence from 2020 to 2022.

She was working with the Detroit-based performances and public events company, The Hinterlands. The Hinterlands program, practice and perform PLAY House, which is next to FILTER Detroit. Livia has been part of their play: Will You Miss Me? The Hinterlands / Will You Miss Me?

Chesley´s solo works have explored the magnification of inner worlds through mercurial physicality and have been seen in Berlin, Chicago, Asheville, Vermont, Detroit and Massachusetts.

What about living in Campau/Banglatown

In 2021, during the peak of the COVID-Pandemic, I , Kerstin Niemann (KN), asked Livia Chesley (LC) about her living experience of a few months in Campau/Banglatown in Detroit:

KN: Has living in the neighborhood or the people that you encounter daily, not work related, influenced or inspired your work as choreographer. If yes, what has been influential?

LC: There’s no doubt I am inspired by the neighborhood and the people I encounter daily. The community feels very close and supportive. Neighbors are friendly and polite. We share backyards for kids to play in. How exactly my work has been influenced remains a question while I am still immersed here. Ramadan began Monday of this week. The streets have gone very quiet, but I know people are home. There is a shift in the rhythm of the day in the neighborhood as people observe the holy month. I think about my own religious history, both in my lifetime and heritage and I seek out resources to learn about Islam. Some of the questions that have been in my research since this fall concern family lore, Christian influence in my childhood, and the places that feel like home.

KN: From your perspective. Is there anything that you think needs improvement for this diverse neighborhood?

LC: It’s a near-impossible feat during the pandemic, but I hope in the next decade the empty storefronts on Joseph Campau open up again with locally owned shops and venues.

KN: Where do you eat/ or order food or go grocery shopping in this neighborhood and why there?

LC: I order my food from a company that resells surplus food and food with aesthetic imperfections. They deliver once a week to the house. I also shop at Al-Haramain because it is so close, and once in a while I drive out to Western Market in Ferndale to get local coffee beans. If I get takeout, I usually go to Yemen Café. Their food is so delicious, and it was the first restaurant-made meal I ate when I moved here.

For more information on Livia Chesley please visit #liviachesley

Working the Land

Responsibilities and Values of Land and Ownership

Saturday, 5th of October: 3 to 5 pm

Jar House, 13015 Klinger, 48212 Detroit (Banglatown)

What does it mean for individuals, neighbors, or the community to own, share or be responsible for land whether it is a vacant lot or property they owe?

Neighbors and experts from the field of research, community activism, and finance give a short introduction about what different forms of land use exist, and are possible. In their inputs they will focus on the responsibilities that come with landownership or stewardship of single-family homes in the Campau/Davison/Banglatown neighborhood. (Community Land Trust, LCO´s 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization / Land Contracts / Rental). 

This two hours workshop will feature presentations, a neighborhood walking tour, and afterwards table discussions will commence with locals, experts and interested parties that are willing to share time and knowledge about land use and land ownership. A snack is served at the end of the workshop.

Expert Inputs: (4 x 5 minutes)

·     Detroit Land Bank (a member of Community Affairs Department.): Responsibilities and numbers in the neighborhood.

·     Community Land Trust (Richard Feldman, Boggs Center): Land Justice: Community Land Trust and other forms of ownerships.

·     Banglatown (Akim Rahman from the Banglatown Farmers Market/HOPE Center/Masjid Fatima on Campau at Burnside): Farmers Market and Housing for immigrants in Banglatown.

·     Property Praxis (Josh Akers, Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban and Regional Studies, U of M): Post Crisis Housing Markets and Land Speculation vs. Land Use. 

Neighborhood walk : (3 stops )

·     Jayne´s Playfield (D'Marco Ansari : Public Private Partnership Specialist – East, Housing and Revitalization Department City of Detroit): Neighborhood Implementation Plan / Housing Rental and Homeownership in Detroit.

·     Ride It Sculpture Park (Gina Reichert, Power House Productions- arts organization and community member): Cultivating sustainable art solutions and neighborhood engagement. 

·     Burnside Farm (Kate Daughdrill): Land based ways of living in the city, cultivating land and community engagement.

During the walking tour all the participants of the workshop are asked to take notes, map, take photos of land sites or just draw mental maps. The result will be shared afterwards. 

The workshop will close at 5pm. 

The workshop is organized by Kerstin Niemann, FILTER Detroit.

In Dialogue with Mike Kelley Researching Michigan Avenue

Artist duo Erwin Van Doorn and Inge Nabuurs from Eindhoven (the Netherlands) spend three weeks in the fall of 2017 at FILTER Detroit. Accompanied by 39 reproductions of framed collages of Mike Kelley ́s „Morgue“, which they brought from the Van Abbemuseum ́s contemporary collection, they researched and explored the context of this particular work series relating it back to his home town Detroit. Just before his death Kelley worked with the Van Abbemuseum on an audio guide translating the collages into a more contemporary context – he never finished. The artist duo took up the idea of an Audiologue while establishing a dialogue with the city of Detroit sharing and hosting the reproductions of Mike Kelley`s work. Within their three weeks work period they mapped Michigan Avenue as one of the major streets leading into the city and out to the suburbs cutting through different communities of the city of Detroit towards the suburb Westland, the childhood home of Kelly.

Back in Eindhoven the artists worked intensively on their gathered materials and impression dwelling deep into the history that combines contemporary art making, modernity in relation to the socio-economic connections between America and Europe. Their intensive studies of Kelley ́s work in US institutions as well as in European art collections lead them to form and shape their Detroit findings to produce „Zwischenlandschaften II“ a video installation and performance, as part of a series which they refer to as „Game piece“.

In October 2018 they presented „ZLSIII feat. Mike Kelly / Franz West, a performance and video installation presented at the Boghossian Foundation at Villa Empain, together with experimental dancer (Eleni Ploumi) and a classically trained percussionist (Kjell de Raes) they performed the Game Piece with . The location, Villa Empain, well chosen once hosted the historical Franz West / Mike Kelley show in 1999. (Link to Villa Empain). Marta Hrecznyj, long-term FILTER Detroit resident, art enthusiast and graphic designer supported the Inge and Erwin ́s production of the Game Piece in Brussels. Please read her review, who as a Detroiter accompanied the production and performance on site in Brussels and Eindhoven in 2018. (Link to Kaput Magazin)

From the 15ht until the 21st of March the video installation „Zwischenlandschaften III“, a monologue densely constructed with images, landscapes and quotes referencing work, history and context of Mike Kelley`s „Morgue“ series, is screened in the auditorium of the Van Abbemuseum. After that it joins the collection presentation „The Way Beyond Art“ featuring the works from Kelley’s Morgue series. (Link to Van Abbemuseum)

For more information on the artist and their work please visit: https://www.nabuursvandoorn.com

Joanna Warza, Florian Malzacher, + Lew

Residency

October 2018

Family Research Stop-Over

Curator couple Joanna Warsza and Florian Malzacher and their son Lew came to stop by in Detroit for three days. The Berlin based family previously visited Chicago and Pittsburgh on their research travels.

As part of the visiting artist and curator program at Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Joanna Warsza, gave a lecture with the title: “Outside of the Institution´s Protective Walls.“ Among others Warsza has been the Artistic Director of Public Art Munich from 2016-2018. She considers herself as a city curator. Her partner, Florian Malzacher is a curator for visual and performative arts, a theater critic, and he worked e.g. as curator (dramaturgy) for the festival Steirischer Herbst from 2006 until 2012.

www.florianmalzacher.tumblr.com

http://raumexperimente.net/en/participant/joanna-warsza/

States of Transition: Art in the Contexts of Detroit, Baltimore and Hamburg

Publication

2011 - 2012

Detroit is a Starting Point

This collection of texts, thoughts, encounters, statements and interviews by artists, makers, researchers and pioneers has been assembled as the result of a series of research travels to the city of Detroit, and Baltimore as well as Hamburg conducted in Fall, 2011. Considering the possibilities and limits of contemporary art and its circulation within museums, cultural institutions, commercial galleries and urban lifestyle networks, this booklet intends to look at the intersections of where art and creative social engagement meet and how this affects the transformation of urban space in the different cities.

This booklet should give you insights from the point of view of art-makers and supporters.

Who and What

Kerstin Niemann: Who and what drives artists, makers and art organizers in cities like Detroit, Baltimore or Hamburg? 

Steve Hughes: Turning Dirt Without a Shovel

Sille Storihle: Anecdotes from Detroit

Liza Bielby and Richard Newman: Unintentional Pioneers – The Hinterlands’ Liza Bielby and Richard Newman

Interview essay between Chido Johnson and Kerstin Niemann: Art and Art production in Detroit

Gary Kachadourian: Working the Land

Sue Spaid: Does the Top Need the Bottom?

Hugh Pocock: “Whats Art Got To Do With It? ……Got To Do With It?”

Volker Kirchberg: Arts, Culture and Urban Development in Hamburg – Employments and Exploitations

YOU CAN ORDER THIS Booklet via Email, filter.hamburg@gmail.com, for a prize of 10 EUR plus shipment.

Thanks to the Goethe Institute for the research travel grant for curators, without which I would have not been able to spend time in Baltimore and dwell in the artistic scene of Detroit. My heartfelt appreciation goes to all the artists, makers, doers, dwellers, shapers, initiators, citizens of Detroit, Baltimore and Hamburg. Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences and reflections about your city.

Learning from Detroit

Exhibition

May - August 2013, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany

With Mira Burack und Kate Daughdrill, jessica Care moore, Susan Goethel Campbell, Tyree Guyton (The Heidelberg Project), Scott Hocking, Steve Hughes, I.T.U. mit Danielle Aubert und Maia Asshaq, Karin Jobst, Chido Johnson, Living Archive FILTER DETROIT (Fieke van Berkom, Cordula Ditz, Nina Könnemann), Gilda Snowden, Submerge: featuring Underground Resistance and Corine Vermeulen. 

What does Wolfsburg and Detroit have in common? Both are so called “motowns” or “autocities” referring to their importance as manufacturing bases of the automobile industry. According to this fact their inhabitants depend in several aspects on the economic development of this industrial sector. The current economic situation of both cities show two different outcomes of urban evolution and two different approaches to deal with turning points in economic development. While Wolfsburg overcame the crisis by restructuring the Volkswagen-group and by renewing its concept of urban space the US-American Detroit copes with its economic decline in a very different way: The citizens are self-managing the crisis.

What precisely can we learn from Detroit, a city that has the reputation of a shrinking city par excellence? According to Robert Venturi’s book “Learning from Las Vegas”, which became an incunabulum of postmodern architecture and urban planning one could put the thesis that there is in fact much to learn especially from those sites which in contrary to their “bad” images find very original solutions for urban problems that seemed to be unsoluble. A shrinking population and the collapse of the infrastructure can offer a chance for new forms of communal life and collaboration or even of the entire society and lead to the conclusion that a smaller city could be a better city, particularly if the active commitment of the citizens is supported. Urban gardening and urban farming are popular in Detroit. Most citizens use the open space, the empty houses and former factory sites to assure their food self-supply or to turn it into art work and to experiment with it. The increasing number of this neighbourly community art projects equalises the build-up of a new branch of production in which the citizens determine the parameter of their quality of life themselves and shape them with artistic means.

The group show “Learning from Detroit“ provided an insight into the present artistic and cultural movement of the city. It presented not only long-term residents and new ones or short-term in Detroit living artists and artist-groups but also development-processes of cultural collaborations with non-artists. The city itself, its history as an industrial site and its changing, dynamic structure has been the starting point and the substance for many of the shown artworks. Following his residency in Wolfsburg, Detroit-based artist Scott Hocking, developed an artwork that refers to both cities. Chido Johnson expanded his artistic approach by offering a “Wire Cars-Workshop” to the citizens of Wolfsburg.

12 artistic positions have been shown at two venues: the Kunstverein Wolfsburg located in the castle of Wolfsburg and the CITY GALLERY, a smaller project space of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, in the city centre. The artworks contain the whole range of artistic media such as painting, photography, installations, sculpture and performance art. The group show “Learning from Detroit“ was developed in collaboration with FILTER a platform for international contemporary art based in Hamburg. Since three years initiator Kerstin Niemann manages a house on Moran Street under the name FILTER DETROIT which provides research residencies and is a place for exchange for artists, thinkers and other cultural professionals coming from in and outside Detroit. The project “Learning from Detroit“ is also a collaboration of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg and the Institute of Contemporary History and Citymarketing (IZS) as a part of the celebration activities of the 75th anniversary of Wolfsburg. The framework program organized by the IZS includes different DJ-acts (Detroit-Techno, Motown-Soul etc.), an urban gardening-day, a screening of citymarketing image films and a reading about the structural development of Detroit. Lokale Liaison – the education program of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg cooperates with the IZS for the development of a research exhibition that will be presented at space for friends at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg.

Opening: Thursday, 23rd of May, 7pm, 

Spoken Word Poetry Performance The Missing Project: Pieces of the D” by jessica Care moore and “Developments of Detroit Techno and the city’s influence on music and its artists” a DJ-Lecture by DJ, producer and sound designer Mike Huckaby

With kind support of:

Niedersächsiches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

U.S. Consulate General Hamburg

WOB Wächst Mit Mir

Beeindruckend Jung 75 Wolfsburg