Installation Max Sudhues
The democratic culture considers the public spheres as the sources for the democratic process within a society. Publics are created by meeting and inter-acting of individuals in interest- or expertise-driven communities. Their agreements and conventions, assemblies and representation systems produce the public organism in which we live. „Being public“ is the subject of GLOW 2009 focusing – in the choice of artists and designers, parcours, locations and works – on the changing qualities of public spheres. Embodiment of the public spheres is urban public space as an open space without any access restrictions and as the space of open discourses and free shaping of collective opinions. Observing the ongoing changes in appearance and meanings of public space, gazes are directed to the fragile individual bonds to geographic locations and communities, to the segmentation of the public space by its commercialized use and to the missing link between urban planning and citizen interests. Present is a need for discussion and action, which is essential for the sustainable progress of democratic culture. To generate a public for these questions GLOW 2009 is an open source for collective experiences and a platform for shared discussions about present and future qualities, including their responsibilities and challenges.
The Locations 2009: Public Sphere
The GLOW parcours stretches from the campus of the University of Technology to the TD Gebouw. Chosen locations are the market- and other urban squares, some public gardens like in “Smalle Haven”, some links between different parts of the city like the Dommel underpass at “Stationsweg”, event and meeting places like the “Muziekcentrum Fritz Philips” and the “Effenaar”, hot spots of the creative industries like the “Designhuis”, the city hall and further administration building like the “De Hooghuis”, the church St. Catharinakerk and the cemetery “St. Catharina Kerkhof”, the hub of public transportation “Eindhovens station” and some parking garages, shopping malls like “De Bijenkorf” and the regional newspaper “Eindhovens Dagblatt”, urban vacancies and wastelands. In their appearance, their function or their meaning they all link to various aspects of the public spheres and provide the framework for the GLOW interventions and installations.
The Participants 2009: Artists and Designers
Artists and designers from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Canada, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA are invited to be part of GLOW 2009. Apparati Effimeri, Siegrun Appelt, Armsrock, Artificiel, Rebecca Belmore, Marnix de Nijs, Eva-Maria Joeressen I Klaus Kessner, Vollrad Kutscher, Mary-Anne Kyriakou I Su-Wen Leong, Dominik Lejman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Holger Mader I Alexander Stublic I Heike Wiermann, Geert Mul, Michael Najjar, Kai Piippo, Daniel Schlaepfer, Marie Sester, Max Sudhues, Ralph Ueltzhoeffer, Berry van Egten are the participants of the exhibition program.
