FromBeetoBee Network: Lily Wittenberg + Birgit Wudtke (Visual Arts/ Germany)
http://www.frombeetobee.net/

The BeetoBee Net: Operating in Virtual and Real Space
“If we look back at our childhood, we will remember the early years before the meanings of objects had become fixed, those adventurous moments of opening wardrobes or hidden shoe boxes. We secretly searched in mother’s jewelry boxes. The things we found, such as scissors, necklaces, plastic pearls or broken cups, seemed to be attached to unfamiliar stories. They transported us far away to hidden places in the depths of our imagination.
Initially, we expected the internet to be like this - like a huge wardrobe, where people from all over the world can pour in their imaginative ideas, for the purpose of sharing. Now, some years later, we are confronted with junk information and pornography sent by invisible strangers and faceless moneymakers.

The BeetoBee Net started as a virtual project. At first, we experimented with the communicative possibilities of setting up a non-conformable website. This was followed later by the idea of showing our works in “real space”.
We wanted to keep the flexibility that has arisen from our internet-based means of communication. We have been searching for a way to show “big ideas in small sizes”. We have been working on a solution to interact with international soulmates from different countries; this time in real space; again in an intimate space.”

Stefan CANHAM (Photography/ Germany) + Rufina WU (Architecture/ Canada)

PORTRAITS FROM ABOVE : Hong Kong’s Rooftop Communities
… “Our intention is to reveal the creative cultural energy of the rooftop communities to a wider public. In the absence of officially sanctioned space, residents develop innovative tactics to make room for themselves. Such informal architecture and spatial practices typically occupy a subordinate position in the formal discourses on the city. We feel the need to acknowledge alternative modes of habitation that operate outside of the framework of the dominant culture, and to recognize these unconventional praxes as vital forces in the shaping of our built environment. The power of the subaltern lies not only in its potential to bring about social change, but it forces us to question our own conceptions of the world around us with its suggestions for new, alternatives, and potentially revolutionary spatial practices.” …