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Ciudad Colonial, Santo Domingo

On this occasion the group in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center in Santo Domingo, invite us to participate in the intervention Dispatchwork in the Colonial City to be held in the first weeks of May, the program of said activity comprises two panels and the Creation of three intervention routes with the insertion of pieces of “lego” in fissures of buildings, urban furnishings and sidewalks. The panels will take place on May 3 and 4 at 7:00 PM in the Maria Ugarte Room of the referred center, and will include Esther Hernández-Medina, Marcos Barinas, Marcos Blonda, Incursiones (collective Venezuelan), Alex Martínez Suárez, Mauricia Domínguez, Miguel Piccini and Jan Vormann, whose lectures will revolve around the construction and linking of the inhabitants with the cities and above all with the historical centers.

What we want on the one hand is to emphasize the participatory aspect of the construction of cities, which are the imaginary platform – and tangible at the same time
Where our life in society develops, and in addition, contribute in the bonding of the citizens with the historical centers of our cities, for that reason our action mainly is oriented to the creation of routes within them and in the Concrete case of the Colonial City the routes are based on the literary recreation. Of this historical center: chronicle, memory, tourist itinerary and novel, product of a very well-researched investigation by Miguel Piccini.
The photos were taken by Alex Martinez Suarez, Luis Graham and Miguel Piccini.

York Street, Great Yarmouth

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SeaChange are an independent arts development charity based at the Drill Hall in Great Yarmouth.  They collaborate internationally and are dedicated to delivering outstanding opportunities for artists and communities through supporting, hosting and delivering circus and street arts projects and events.  SeaChange also hosts the Great Yarmouth “Out There Festival” annually in September which this year celebrates its 10th Year.

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This Dispatchwork was created as part of the “Up Our Street” project  which is all about transforming the local neigbourhood around the Drill Hall area, through a range of creative and gardening activities, from murals to street furniture, gardening to upcycling.

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Over two days local children living in around the area participated in creating this dispatchwork which has raised many smiles already.  The installation features on the crumbling corner of one of the many murals that was created by the artist John Dashwood. This mural depicts the Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson which Great Yarmouth had close links with in the 18th Century

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Prasat Beng Mealea, Siem Reap Province

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I recently went on a trip to Cambodia on the 8-13 December and visited an ancient temple called Prasat Beng Mealea. it was built during the reign of King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century.

Beng Mealea or Bung Mealea is a temple in the Angkor Wat period located 40 km east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay.

– Donovan Watts

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Kendal, Cumbria

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The Lake District has long been a source of artistic inspiration and is one of the central themes of the 2017 bid for World Heritage status. The identity, inspiration and desire to look after this spectacular landscape combines to create an evolving masterpiece – the perfect backdrop against which to launch a new, contemporary digital arts festival.  (http://lakesalive.co.uk/about)

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Slaughterhouse Road, Great Yarmouth Town Wall

A seaside town on the east coast of Norfolk, Great Yarmouth has experienced many ups and downs during its past.  Today this has left us with a diverse and fascinating cultural heritage in a struggling economic era.  Despite this Great Yarmouth still welcomes many holiday visitors during the summer season and is growing in its festival calendar to reflect the many qualities the town has.  There are many organisations in the town developing projects with which to highlight conserving the towns’ heritage while developing a more dynamic spirit to reinvigorate the town.

Our first submission to dispatchwork for Great Yarmouth’s patch, is for the Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust – Great Yarmouth Town Wall, in the view of producing more fun submissions in the area for museums and creative arts groups while also trying to inspire some more people to join the game and play with construction bricks to create colourful fun areas of the town.

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It is claimed that historic Yarmouth has the second best preserved mediaeval town wall in England, after York.  The town wall, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, traces its origins to 1261 taking many years to complete and several repairs during its role of protecting the town from invasion.  Today through the Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust and Norfolk Conservation Ltd it is undergoing some consolidation work at its most fragile areas.   This current section was known as Slaughterhouse Road, an area which in the past housed several slaughterhouses built into the town wall.  Now all having disappeared this area is once again an exposed piece of town wall needing protection from the extreme easterly winds which batters this piece of coastline.  Our dispatchwork here  (although sadly a temporary feature), highlights some of the severe deterioration the wall has suffered in area now used as a car park!

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Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust is a not for profit registered charity working to preserve, save, enhance and promote the historic built environment of the town.

Norfolk Conservation Ltd. came into existence as a response to and concern with: the outstanding heritage of Great Yarmouth and its surrounding area, a general poor state of the built historic environment, a lack of traditional building skills and knowledge, and high unemployment rates. Centred on social values, we are concerned with conserving and promoting heritage, enabling all of its benefits to contribute toward a more sustainable past, present and future.

– Rachel Duncan

Phoenician Wall, Batroun

The Phoenician Wall might well be the oldest man-made structure I have ever personally visited, within the city of Batroun, dating back to at least 5,000 years. The wall was most likely carved directly into the solid rock as a protectetion against the tidal waves and it stands there until today.

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Look closely, right there in the middle: I was here.

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Bilk Arkaden, Düsseldorf

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Thanks to Cole Blaq who took on Dispatchwork with a little twist: Cole works much with the bricks in his daily work as a Designer and Graffity artist. He wrote to me that in Düsseldorf there weren’t too many visible spots to repair, and that places are well taken care of, so he found this own way to join the project!

Please check out more of his works here: www.cole-blaq.com

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Reid Street, Melbourne

Phoebe, Harvey, Elliott and Cooper installed their patches in the cracks and missing bricks on the former shoe factory in Reid Street, Fitzroy North.

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Fitzroy North  is an inner suburb of Melbourne and home to many artists. In 2014 themusic.com.au ranked it “#3 suburb in Australia for songwriters.”

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This is the the first Dispatchwork  in Melbourne, and in their email the team stated: “There will be more to come!” Looking forward, my friends!

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Zolitūde, Riga

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Charlotte is originally from the UK and has worked around the world since 2010. She was in Riga in 2015.

Further she writes: “I work with kids and play with PCBs with them regularly as well as teaching concepts like the Egyptian Pyramids; it was exhilarating to bring their brightness onto the streets! Although the patches did get removed, there is something beautiful about the transitoriness of the project. It also helped me accept things like the destruction of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan to make way for the cathedrals of Mexico City: the significance is that it was once there.”

Please also visit her website and Soundcloud.

Thanks for the snowy patch Charlotte, and sorry for the delay 🙂

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Piazza Mazzini, Orvieto

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The cultural association ViVa ignited the spark for the event in Orvieto in Oktober! Orvieto is located in Umbria, “situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe, rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone called Tufa,” says Wikipedia. From the Etrustcan, to the Roman until today: These walls carry a heavy history. Now they also carry the spirit of Dispatchwork.

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We all had so much fun and the citizens were very happy about this positive and proactive way of showing the problems in public places 🙂 will probably repeat it in spring:) – Agnė Mongirdaitė, coordinator of LUNI Kaunas
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Congress Street, Boston

I had already come across these images in ‘Innovation district’ on Nate’s Instagram and only a couple of months later on the National Public Radio NPR (USA) in a broadcast titled:Unraveled: The Mystery Of The Secret Street Artist In Boston!

It is interesting to follow the reporters discovery as she finds and interviews Nate ‘”it was sort of having fun with what most people would consider a problem”. Swain is a former landscape architect who quit his cubicle to try to make it as an artist’!

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Woogakro, Incheon-Seoul

Eunmi Kim, a member of „The Korea Arts and Culture Education Service KACES“ introduced the repairs to her neighborhood. She then sent me the pictures saying that „it was really fun and people who participated got to have a great relationship together.“

She further informed me about their organisation, which „seeks to foster creative talent to ensure cultural welfare fort he public […] by creating an environment where arts and culture education can be embedded in our daily lives. Creating a living cultural community os one oft he various projects that KACES supports. The projects aim to utilize arts and culture as means to support residential communities by indentifying and resolving regional/public issues based on common visions and values.

Through Dispatchwork, residents will be able to look around their neighborhoods and fill in gaps, providing the opportunity to understand the significance and experience of the joy of participating in community activities!“

Please find more info on their blog: www.livingcultures.tistory.com (Korean)

Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

 

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On their website, they state that “as a part for this November, 20th, the Mexican Revolution beginning anniversary, we join the Dispatchwork Project.

We always seek a way to make new ways in our day-by-day, seeking for renovation and a way to be better persons, better parents and children, to build a better comunity, to have better opportunities and jobs.

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Zao Shan Elementary School, Kaohsiung

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The place in the picture is a stair ladder in an elementary school, the school name is “Zao Shan elementary school”, my brother teaches P.E. there, one day I was asking him, if he knew anywhere to dispatch. He said: How about our school, the kids there need more color in their childhood.  – The next weekend we went to the school and did that dispatchwork. – Suncheese

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Maria Filotti Theatre, Braila

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Many Thanks to Florin who passed on the fotos he received via  Despre Copii, his online parenting platform, of patches made by Lorena and her family. Further info about the location, he explains the theatre built in 1896 as “Teatrul Rally” in 1969, acquired its present name in honour of the Romanian actress, Maria Filotti (1883-1956).

Chuo Dori, Tokyo

The first Dispatchwork in Asia, I received from Hibari and Genya (LEGOHAN). Shortly thereafter happened a terrible earthquake. I know that these repairs are no serious alternative to the troublesome reconstruction of the many broken homes, I still think that these pictures might help in reconstructing hope.

 

Bulevardul Națiunile Unite, Bucharest

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DC2013 sent me these pictures with the following statement:

“The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Par- liament. According to the World Records Academy, the Palace is the world’s largest civilian building with an administrative function, most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building.The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceaușescu regime, a brutal and repressive regime that collapsed after a series of violent events in 1989.”

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In August 2013, few kids reconstructed a small pice in the surrounding wall and brought the Dispatchwork spirit in Romania. This was not just a symbolic step […] but also a remembering moment for the thousands of Romanians that risked their lives in 1989 in their fight against the communist regime, and a hopefully, a clear signal for the occupants of the building (Romanian politicians) to do their jobs to ensure the future of the Romanian young generations!”

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Orti Giulii, Pesaro

“Collettivo Re-public”, is a cultural collective born in 2013 with the aim of discussing topics as green-energies, sustainable growth of social life, use and re-use of pubblic dismissed areas of cities, use of contemporary languages in art, music, sculpture, street-art and installations,.

 

Parque Duarte, La Vega

The collective called “LOCUS_colectivo” invited students from the “Universidad Catolica Tecnologica del Cibao” to reclaim their city. Parallel they offered ‘talks about that constitution of the city: Rights and duties.’ 

Ulitsa Metohia, Sofia

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We went to a neighbourhood called Fakultete. Here you find none of Sofia’s historical buildings but beautifully self-crafted homes. Like a different city, maybe a whole different country, and, with horse-carriages passing by, also a different time.

Within a couple of minutes after having started, all the kids of the neighbourhood took notice of us and joined. 

 

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Ulitsa Parizh, Sofia

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A question I get asked frequently is if I know who takes the patches out. I have multiple of these people on tape, and you would probably be surprised on who these people would be. This security guard from across the street ISN’T one of them. When I left he crossed the street and took the patch out on curiosity. I approached him and took the picture because I was amused about his initiative to leave his post and check out my work.

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Church St. George Rotunda, Sofia

The city now called Sofia was established in 5 BC or earlier, under the name of Serdica and gained much importance over the centuries due to its central positioning in the balkan region. Over the course of time it was under the reign of the Romans, the Ottomans, the Huns,… just to name a few.

This is the Church of St. George, build by the Romans in the 4th century. There had been some debate on social media about whether or not this was disrespectful towards the believers. The priest however just walked by us as we were in full action and didn’t mind.

Plage, Hossegor

I was in Hossegor meeting my friends from androphyne to work on their project about Elias Pozornski. One day we went out to surfer’s paradise on the atlantic ocean. There’s this bunker, which used to be sitting entirely above the dunes, overlooking the ocean. Now the waves are slowly luring the tons of concrete into the depth.

Metelkova, Ljubljana

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Metelkova, an ancient police-station now place for the independent slovenian art-scene. At night you will find it is the place for partying. At daytime, you see people going along their daily business, with artist-studios and flats.

UN Buffer Zone, Nikosia

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I didn’t grasp the full impact of the ’74 Turkish invasion in the north of this island in the eastern mediterrenean. Cyprus has been divided since between a government-controlled area, comprising the southern two-thirds of the island, and a north third de facto administered by the Turkish. No country recognizes the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” other than Turkey.  Around the city center, lays a starshaped citadel. Inside it is divided by these walls:

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Tabakfabrik, Linz

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I was invited by Platform21, with Arne Hendriks, Lotte Dekker, Heleen Klopper, Martijn Dijkhuizen to the 2010 edition of the Ars Electronica festival in Linz around the topic of ‘Repair’

The Ars Electronica festival is one of the oldest and biggest festivals for new media Art, so  imagine how happy I was to take part and have a close look!

The festivals location, an old Tobacco-factory, has a size of more than 30000 sqm and was constructed by Popp and Behrens in 1935 and is protected world heritage.

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