PleinOPENair

Stubborn annual urban event on the city’s sites of pain, taking place for four weekends every summer since 1997.

PleinOPENair’s brief is to explore the city’s ‘terra incognita’, liven them up by organizing an open-air cinema on site, and raise awareness about broader urban issues. Like a flag PleinOPENair plants its screen and claims the site for urban cultural and artistic activity. But cinema is only the opportunity, a wide variety of activities ranging from theatre over installation, performance, architecture, radio to new media and well beyond, have meanwhile joined the urban caravan.

A lot has changed since the first edition of PleinOPENair in 1997. The crowd of between 100 and 200 it pulled then, has now easily six folded. The themes have covered an area from “privatisation of public space” to “urban renewal.” And the sites have varied from adjacent to the Grand Place to the outer limits of the 19th century city, but it still free entrance and is still a project of urban buccaneers.

PleinOPENair started off as a cooperation with Cinema Nova, and have since been joined by too many to mention. For more details visit www.pleinopenair.org or www.nova-cinema.com.

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Ongoing projects:

L-Atlas
Precare
Generalized Empowerment
Krax
Micronomics
Cartografie
Bouillot

Publications:

Bunker Souple Repertorium 1998 & 2000: available at Citymine(d) offices.

Generalized Empowerment. Uneven Development and Urban Interventions, 2006. Download here.

MapRAC. Plannen voor het RijksAdministratief Centrum. La Cité Administrative de l'Etat en cartes & en question, 2004: available at Citymine(d) offices.

Micronomics scanning: DVD online soon.

Networkbook for Urban P/Arts. 42 initiatives capturing London's Public Space, 2004: available at Citymin(e)d offices.

Towards. Cartes Subjectives d'interventions Urbaines à Bruxelles // Subjectieve Kaarten van Stedelijke Internventies in Brussel: available at Citymine(d) offices.