Metropolis 347: call for submissions re: gated communities

ART VIDEO PROJECT

UPH 2

Urbanité / periphérie / habitat

GATED COMMUNITIES

DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2006

COPRODUCTION : ESPACE VIDÉOGRAPHE AND GALERIE VERTICALE

Throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe, a new suburban phenomenon is taking root: gated communities. Walls and gates, surveillance cameras, security guards and gatehouses are the new urban landmarks distinguishing these suburban residential spaces from earlier forms. With their retreat into deep privacy, rejection of social housing and carefully guarded private clubs, these communities are often singled out as an aesthetic blight resulting from bad urban development. Are they the result of overblown feelings of insecurity produced by rising levels of violence? In fact, studies show that the phenomenon is related to problems caused by automobile traffic and relations between adults and neighbourhood youth. The main reason cited by residents asked to explain the trend is not so much insecurity as incivility...

Urbanité / périphérie / habitat questions the inscription of the body within urban and suburban realities. It examines the way in which the body influences, redefines or simply experiences its environment. For the second season of the UPH event, Galérie Verticale, in partnership with Vidéographe, invites modern-art videomakers to submit portfolios on the theme of Gated Communities.

SUBMISSION MUST INCLUDE: