PLACES OUT OF PURPOSE (12.04.07 19 - 22:00)

Ι attribute to my self the task to find places without a task, without a function.
I name them Places_Out_Of_Purpose.

Places abandoned by their rulers, by their function.

Could you detect Places_Out_Of_Purpose within the limits of your own apartment?
Are there Places_Out_Of_Purpose in virtual spaces?

How can you disturb the linearity of spaces?

Zwischenpausen
radio in transit
start a conversation
invent a story that could have occurred
a place consisting of words

traces of failure
places of possibility
the moment of destruction

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Elusive Places

At the instant of the explosion, the building becomes a Place_Out_Of_Purpose.
Sometimes Places_Out_Of_Purpose can last only few instants.

perpetual re.blog.framing

How could be possible to recompose the linear vertical direction of the blog?

Reframing the blog?

According to Vassilieas's idea it would be nice to re-frame the blog continuously.
Maybe we could try to develop step by step a kind of "cyclopedia of transit" by using constantly the possibility of "labeling" our posts. Finally the rhizomatic structure of the transit-network and transit-ideas would be reflected in that kind of "cyclopedia" (anyway it will be like that, but I suggest to reflect that reflection).
What do you think about it? And what do you think about the blog as a of tool for communication and "representation"?

serial reframing

After asking myself questions about which personal form of blog contributions would create a flexible space of thinking, searching and at the same time opening up a place of intervention for others who would receive such contributions, I did not actually come up with answer but with words.
I have invented an expression for this personal form.
I call them serial reframing.
And because I do believe in words and in their power to deceive, I have deceived my self by starting blogging.

Places_Out_Of_Purpose

If I assume that transit spaces in public sphere (all spaces of transfer, movement and changing) are always spaces with a purpose, rules, regulations and control (recognizable or unrecognizable one, even illegal), I attribute to my self the task to find places without a task, without a function.
I name them Places_Out_Of_Purpose.

These are abandoned places.
Places abandoned by their rulers, by their function.

Every place within the borders of a city is always under control. Even if this control is only the definition of its size by the size of the buildings around them.

Nevertheless, there are Places_Out_Of_Purpose in a city.

BIOGRAPHY: VASSILIEA STYLIANIDOU

Vassiliea Stylianidou was born in 1967,in Thessaloniki, Greece. She lives and works in Berlin and Athens.

Following studies of literature and linguistics at the University of Jannina, Greece from 1985-89, she became a student of fine arts at the University of the Arts, Berlin, focussing on new media, video and photography. Her prizes include the AT Kearney video prize and the Meisterschuelerprize of the UdK Berlin in 1999, the Goldrausch 11 Artistproject, Berlin 1999-2001, NaFöG - Postgraduate grant from the University of the Arts Berlin, 2001 DAAD supplementary grant for NYC within the scope of the NaFOEG-postgraduate grant, and several Artist-in-Residence Programs in Europe. Her solo exhibitions include 2005 perpetuum mobile, Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Munich, Playcities Gallery Kappatos, Athens; 2002 Heroes & Co. CAPRI, Berlin; and more recently exhibitions in Germany, Italy and Greece. Amongst numerous international group exhibitions was the 2005 Old Habits Die Hard as part of the exhibition Situation at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia; the Prague Biennale; the CHIANGMAI FIRST NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, CMU ART MUSEUM, Thailand; 2002 and familistère 1 at Kunst-Werke Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art (C).