HOT SPOTS: What Comes After Oil? Nürnberg HOT SPOTS Office
The Nürnberg Hot Spots Office is a participatory art project as a temporary use of the abandoned gas station at the former Quelle Adam-Klein-Street/ Mendelstreet, Nürnberg. This intervention is embedded in the international art project and focuses on and asks the question "What comes after oil?"
The site has both an inside and outside space. The HOT SPOTS design (and related work) comprises the site towards the urban quarter and makes it recognizable as re-organized and alternatively used site in contrast to its former purpose. The available interior will be used as an office, workshop, and showroom. Each work "What comes after oil?" will be presented at the office and will be open to the public through the opening hours.
The description of this HOT SPOT is focusing on our use of city space, our living space and the question of how we deal with our resources, i.e., our living context. A variety of presentations/ work are planned in which artists are asked to participate.Artikel Kreisbote >
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HOT SPOTS: What Comes After Oil? Petrol Station Interventions
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the Western World has become increasingly dependent on fossil fuels as the basis of our growth economy and privileged standard of living. This dependence has undermined the sustainability of all living systems and has destabilized world cultures. A paradigm shift is required to envision life-enhancing economies and wise use of our natural resources. Can we meet the challenge of renewable and responsible energy use—in our homes, communities, and across the globe?
Before change can occur, it must be imagined. Thus we have chosen the image and physical site of the petrol station—perhaps an iconic relic of future generations. Owing to their abandonment and often to their architecture, these places have a particular aura and are indicative of this worldwide politically charged question: What Comes After Oil?
Taking as points of departure are HOT SPOTS (petrol stations) in Munich, Germany; Pittsburgh, USA; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We have chosen these cities, local to where we live, as “case studies” for initiating a multi-national dialogue and exploration of the past, present and future of oil. Extending out from these HOT SPOTS in a radius of 200 miles/322 kilometers, we will reclaim abandoned gas stations as platforms for public art.
In addition to these primary sites, there are abandoned petrol stations all over the world. Independent of the central project, these SATELLITES will be dealt with separately by artists and artist groups. However, they will be linked with the platform HOT SPOTS.
In an attempt to reduce (and therefore re-imagine) our carbon footprint, virtual communications will be paramount. Live streaming, online papers, virtual classrooms and galleries, and the like will preserve physical resources and result in an international cacophony. Information, maps, and project programming will be disbursed through HOT SPOT offices in Munich, Pittsburgh, and Dubai and virtually on the web.
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HOT SPOTS: What Comes After Oil? Poster Exchange
The principal team of HOT SPOTS: What Comes After Oil? has initiated a poster exchange amongst international college students. The HOT SPOTS poster exchange is an opportunity for students to participate in an international dialogue on the social, political, economic, and environmental ramifications of the impending 21st century transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable forms of clean energy.
The value of this project is to highlight the different thought processes that are born of the experiences and backgrounds of students from varying parts of the world. The platform from which these thoughts arise is unique to each place and situation despite the fact that the principles and facts that underly the discourse are the same (i.e. the inevitable end of oil).
The conversation that is the result of the exchange is made more valuable in that it allows complex developed visual ideas to be traded in a tangible way but at the speed of virtual communication. Posters will be simultaneously displayed in galleries and online in an ever expanding web of participation.
Currently American University in Dubai, Zayed University (Dubai) and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh are participating in this exchange. Students from the University of Applied Sciences, Munich, will be joining the exchange in January, and there will be an exhibition of all the posters in Munich at that time.
We will continue to add colleges and universities to expand our poster exchange. We would be thrilled to have every continent represented! If you would like to partner with us on this project, please contact us!
Please click here to visit our Facebook page filled with images of the posters, text written by the students, and photos of the exhibition openings.
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HOT-SPOTS INTERNATIONAL POSTER EXCHANGE opening at thejamjar in Dubai. September 1, 2009.
HOT-SPOTS INTERNATIONAL POSTER EXCHANGE at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Gallery. September 14-30, 2009.
Click here for PDF presentation of posters from 2009. (16MB)
Click here for PDF catalogue from the Hochschule Munich exhibit. Organized by Wolfgang Gebhard (19MB)
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Oil: A Non Renewable Resource Video Exchange
DUOC Institute, Santiago, Chile
American University in Dubai, UAE
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Please click here to see projects from the international video exchange.
The idea is to propose to the students of each course to do a video of no more than 3 minutes with the theme “Oil: A Non Renewable Resource” and to let the students develop an audiovisual message about it. These videos (probably
several per course) will be presented on a web page shared by all of us
(students and teachers in Dubai, Chile and USA); they will be revised every week during 3 months—from the conceptual origin of the project until its final realization. In this page we will be able to include comments and exchanges among students and teachers. The course supposes the realization of an idea under a same conceptual premise, but also sharing, observing and exchanging concepts and methodologies of production among individuals living in diverse locations of the planet—learning from each other in different cultural circumstances.
What is being proposed here is a global view from a local situation using
communication technologies that allow for the development of a contextual
understanding of a theme. It will be interesting to compare the different
perspectives about the theme; we will also see if the formal and conceptual product that each group of students realize is determined by their cultural and geographical situation. During the course of this project, the essence of each production will be understood as a reality beyond a single audiovisual product; thus, bringing a complete vision to the message.
