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About Urban Subjects

Urban Subjects is a cultural research collective formed in 2004 by Sabine Bitter, , and Helmut Weber, based in Vancouver, Canada and Vienna, Austria.

Together they develop interdisciplinary artistic projects focusing on global-urban issues, the texture of cities, and on civic imaginations. Urban Subjects do not work on a consensus model.

Amongst others, they have organized the exhibition Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons at Artspeak, Vancouver, in 2006 and participated in the conference Contrapolis; or Creativity and Enclosures in the Cities at Poortgebouw and NAI, Rotterdam organized by Marina Vishmidt, Jan van Eyck Academy, in 2008.

They have collaborated with Vancouver Flying University on a public program regarding housing in Vancouver.

In 2009 they devised and edited the book Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, with a previously unpublished manuscript by Lefebvre (Fillip/Sternberg Press, 2009). Their essay on 鈥淭he Spaces and Temporalities of Dual Power and Autogestion in Gramoven, Caracas鈥� has been published in Waking Up from The Nightmare of Participation, edited by Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Markus Miessen (Expodium, 2011).

Collaboratively they produced Momentarily: Learning from Mega-events (Western Front, 2011) with Bik Van der Pol and Alissa Firth-Eagland.

For WE: Vancouver at the Vancouver Art Gallery they wrote a manifesto concerning the historical endurance of the political imagination of revolution, a Manifesto for the Poetry of the Future, with geographer Neil Smith.

They worked on the project 鈥淔illing the Weak Points鈥� regarding autogestion and 鈥渞esearching the militant image鈥漣n cooperation with Kunstraum of Leuphana University L眉neburg and as artists in residence at the Leuphana Arts Program in 2012/2013. 

In 2014, they curated the exhibition 鈥淭he Militant Image - Picturing What Is Already Going On鈥� with Camera Austria, Graz, and conducted the workshop 鈥淩esearching the Militant Image鈥� as part of steirische herbst Academy 2014 .
Currently they are working on the publication, 鈥淭he Militant Image Reader鈥� forthcoming in 2015 by Edition Camera Austria.

In July 2015, they held a research residency at the EXPO in Milano, Italy.