The transit lounge is the archetypal transit space, the point where the hyper-global + hyper-local coincide; a location which blurs traditional conceptions of geo-political boundaries, creating pockets of international space within the borders of individual nation-states. An in-between space, it exists relative to a fixed departure and arrival point, not to the area that surrounds it.

The Transit Lounge is a series of overlapping residencies for Australian and German artists and architects in Berlin. It is also a blog where themes relating to the project will develop, collaborations will be initiated and sustained, and observations on the city collected. The Transit Lounge invites you to participate in these transnational conversations by commenting on the blog.

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The transit lounge is supported by Culturia and the DAZ

Monday, December 10, 2007

transit lounge 2008

transit lounge will be back in Berlin + across Australia for 3 weeks in 2008. A partner event of transmediale.08, CONSPIRE...transit lounge 2008 will involve 6 artists working together (and separately) in Berlin, responding to the secret instructions and obstructions received from artists in Sydney, Melbourne, London and Paris, in a 4d online and real world game of exquisite corpse of video, sound, images and performance.

transit lounge will run from Jan 15th - Feb 4th, and will be open to the public in Berlin from Jan 31st at Program Gallery, Mitte.

Project artists include: Bianca Calandra, Robert Curgenven, Benjamin Ducroz, Katie Hepworth, Govinda Lange, Somaya Langley, Silvia Marzall, Kristina Matovic, Michael Prior, Jodi Rose, Sumugan Sivanesan, Anna Tautfest...with more to be announced shortly.

The project website will be launched in early 2008...in the meantime, updates can be found here.

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