Karin Lancel, Luiz Hernandez Galvan, Lu Leiping

Karen Lancel  and Herman Maat create ‘meeting places’ in (semi)public spaces.

1) Put inflatable cells in public spaces and let the audience enter to have a digital chat with people that are, or have been, in true ‘cells’: prisoners, agorafobics or ex-Stasi-prisoners. All these chats are about soclusion and how to save yourself, how to keep conrtrol. The chats are recorded and displayed on the project website: Agora Phobia Digitalis.

2) A performer carries a backpack, containing a laptop with a touch screen and a camera. The public is invited to touch the screen and navigate through an archive of statements about the threat of insecurity and isolation. Meanwhile, a live video portrait appears on a large projection screen (e.g. on a building) in the same public space. Stalkshow.

3) Teletrust: art work exploring the relation between trust and eye contact. Put on a veil and hide your face, while you hear the voices around you talking about trust. The passerby’s can download an iPhone-App that they can use to unveil you and let you know if they need to see your eyes in order to trust you.

Video below: talk by Karen Lancel at ‘Designing the Hybrid City’

Video below: talk by Luiz Hernandez Galvan at ‘Designing the Hybrid City’