{"id":3675,"date":"2011-08-27T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2011-08-27T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T17:24:53","slug":"a-place-to-go-to-melanchotopia-%e2%80%93-between-melancholy-and-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"A Place to go (to): Melanchotopia \u2013 between melancholy and utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 September\u201327 November 2011. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art<br \/>\nWitte de Withstraat 50<br \/>\n3012 BR Rotterdam<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdw.nl\/event\/melanchotopia-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wdw.nl\/event\/melanchotopia-en<\/a>\/<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00abWitte de With&rsquo;s <em>Melanchotopia<\/em> is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with private and semi-public venues in the city-center of Rotterdam\u2014<span style=\"color: #008000;\">places where people live, learn and work<\/span>\u2014to activate their potential as spaces for ideas, debate and invention. The exhibition addresses the very fundamental question: <span style=\"color: #008000;\">What makes a city livable?<\/span> With this project, we invite the inhabitants of Rotterdam and their guests to join us in exploring new ways of experiencing public life today.<br \/>\nFrom large-scale interventions to very simple gestures, <em>Melanchotopi<\/em>a supports a range of artistic practices that go beyond the classic approach of displaying art in public space. Transcending traditional venues for public art, the show reaches out and provokes dialogue by inserting art in everyday contexts: in supermarkets, offices, schools. By deliberately choosing such familiar environments, the project reiterates the vital role that art can play in shaping a thriving civil society.<br \/>\nWorking with the existing dynamics of the city, Witte de With reveals the many layers of daily life in Rotterdam, creating a rich framework for subjective encounters. Melanchotopia is an exhibition about the multiple individual realities of Rotterdam, a city that seems to be on hold, caught between its past and its future: filled with nostalgia for the pre-war city, while waiting for the completion of the utopian future, which is perpetually stalled in unfinished developments and reconstructions.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 September\u201327 November 2011. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Witte de Withstraat 50 3012 BR Rotterdam http:\/\/www.wdw.nl\/event\/melanchotopia-en\/ \u00abWitte de With&rsquo;s Melanchotopia is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with private and semi-public venues in the city-center of Rotterdam\u2014places where people live, learn and work\u2014to activate their potential as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/?p=3675\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Place to go (to): Melanchotopia \u2013 between melancholy and utopia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantb.net\/uebersicht\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}