Stadtleuchten [City lights]

The lights are going on throughout the entire city on the evening of September 19: Projectors, slide show and film projectors light up house walls, brick walls and garage doors. The idea behind »City lights« is for people to come together and get to know their neighbours better. Anyone can join in and form »light cells« together with their neighbours. There will be five so-called initial lights in total which show by way of example which kinds of neighbourhoods exist today.

One of the five initial light cells is located on ZKM’s forecourt: ZKM, the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) [University of Art and Design] and the Städtische Galerie [Municipal Gallery] in the former ammunition factory at the IWKA plant, which are all geographically close to each other, are now one venue networked by art discourse from all over the world.

ZKM entertains the forecourt area on the City Lights evening and challenges its neighbours to have a »dialogue of images«. In the context of GLOBALE, the projections will refer to aspects of globalisation and digitalisation which are among the most influential factors of our age and massively influence people’s lives together. Against this backdrop, the ZKM_Forecourt is being given the name »Human Rights Square«.

You can find more information about »City Lights«, the idea behind it and how to join in at www.stadtleuchten-ka.de