Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang (Public Works)

Mobile Bench, to arrive soon…

For their interest in social processes as they are informed by the interchange of art, architecture and design, and their propositions of alternative models and spaces for displaying creative production, I.D.E.A.London has asked Public Works to collaborate with us. Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang have kindly agreed to lend their Mobile Bench to I.D.E.A.London, to use as a flexible, mobile base for discussion, exchange and storage of disseminating material, moving in, out and between institutional boundaries. Due to technical and ‘other’ circumstances, the Mobile Bench is still pending. Details for its arrival will follow soon…

The Mobile Bench was designed as part of a six month consultation project commissioned by Camden Council in 2002 for an area called Lismore Circus. The project investigated the current under-use of the site and looked into ideas for future changes. The consultation lead to a design and public programme proposal which will be implemented later in 2005.

Public Works is an art/architecture collective consisting of Architects Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Torange Khonsari, Andreas Lang and Artists Kathrin Böhm and Stefan Saffer, who have been collaborating in different constellations since 1998.

The team is specialised in participation and design projects for public spaces and institutions.

Clients in the UK include Camden Council, Siemens Corporate Communications, Peabody Trust, Serpentine Gallery, Sleaford City Council, Gasworks Gallery and Thurrock Council.

Public Works’ conceptual interest lies in the relationship between institutions who offer and govern public space, and the users of those spaces. Social structures are one of the main factors which enable our physical structures to work or collapse, thus we give equal importance to building community structures as well as building quality physical structures. Our contribution as artists/architects is to propose and implement communication structures and physical structures that support and make use of the existing local networks and resources, and at the same time offer, propose and stimulate new activities and ways of exchange.

Recent and current project include:

2005 Portfolio Siemens, Siemens Arts Programm and Corporate Communications Siemens UK

Picture Highhouse, Access and Audience development Study, Purfleet, Thurrock Council

matchmakers II, Consultation and Design Project, Lismore Circus, Camden Council, UK

Rules for Boot, as part of Shrinking Cities, Kunstwerke Berlin (Curator: Philip Oswalt)

2004 Park Products, Serpentine Gallery, London (Curator:Sally Tallant)

lay-out II, Consultation and Design Project, Gasworks Gallery, London (Curator: Fiona Boundy)

Mobile Porch as part of Raving, Centre for Contemporary Art Andalucia, Seville (Curator: Rosa Pera)

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