Utstilling:
Lytt til byen: Listen to the City
Listen to the City, a Seoul-based art and urbanism collective, presents an exhibition exploring the impact of gentrification on cities like Stavanger and Seoul. Through interviews, videos, infographics, and workshops, the collective highlights the challenges of rapid urban development and its effects on local communities. The exhibition emphasizes the importance of preserving urban diversity and history, offering insights into grassroots urbanism and advocating for more equitable cities.

Opening: Thursday, August 29th at 18.00
Exhibition period: August 30th – September 15th
(open Tuesday-Sunday from 12.00 to 18.00)

Screening, artist talk & vegan potluck: 
Saturday, August 31st at 13.00–15.00

Workshop: Book talk + Making Stavanger Manifesto: 
Thursday, September 5th at 18.00–20.00

Workshop: Artist talk + Making Stavanger Manifesto: 
Thursday, September 12th at 18.00–20.00

About the exhibition
Seoul based art and urbanism collective Listen to the City will bring concerns and a sense of solidarity to protect urban diversity and history in Stavanger.

This exhibition brings together grassroots feminist insurgent urbanism to question neoliberal development and governance. We will share knowledge and thoughts on Stavanger’s urban gentrification and displacement.

This exhibition includes the civic engagement workshops in Stavanger, Seoul, and Stavanger and Seoul gentrification information graphics, gentrification map, and short interviews on Stavanger’s gentrification, International Anti-gentrification alliance website (including DIY urbanism toolkit). Through those intense works, we want to address that gentrification is a global-local issue and needs detailed solutions from citizens’ voices.

(Listen to the City)
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Stavanger Gentrification Workshop
Dato: lørdag 22. og søndag 23. juni
Klokken: kl. 13.00-15.00 (begge dagene)
Sted: Rogaland Kunstsenter
Vær med å del dine meninger om gentrifisering i Stavanger.
Vi tilbyr gratis kaffe og vegansk snacks.
Listen to the City er et Seoul-basert urbanistisk kollektiv som har kjempet mot autoritær, markedsdrevet planlegging gjennom feministisk grasrot urban/øko-aktivisme og hvordan dette bidrog til endringer i perspektiver på urbane spørsmål så vel som byplanleggingslover i Sør-Korea.
Vi ønsker å diskutere gentrifiseringsprosessen i Stavanger og hvordan den påvirket folk. Og resultatene vil bli delt på utstillingen på Rogaland Kunstsenter fra 29.august til 15 september (2024) sammen med infografikk og filmer om gentrifisering i Stavanger og Seoul.
Date: Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd of June
Hours: 13.00-15.00 (both days)
Location: Rogaland Kunstsenter
Please share your opinion on gentrification in Stavanger
With free Coffee and Vegan Snacks
Listen to the City is a Seoul-based urbanist collective has fought against authoritarian, market-driven planning through feminist grassroots urban/ eco-activism and how this contributed to changes in perspectives on urban issues as well as urban planning laws in South Korea.
We want to discuss on gentrification process in Stavanger and how it affected people. And the results will be shared on the exhibition at Rogaland Kunstsenter from 29.08 to 15. 09, 2024 along with infographics and films on gentrification in Stavanger and Seoul.

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Artist Talk: What art can do in postcolonial cities?
Being an independent art-urbanism practice
Mandag 13. mai arrangerte vi en samtale med kunstner og aktivist Eunseon Park.
Her diskuterte hun postkoloniale byer, kunst-aktivistiske praksiser i dem og presenterte 
eksempler fra hennes egen uavhengige kunsturbanistiske praksis med Listen to the City.
Seoul is both a postcolonial and hyper-capitalistic city where gentrification is incessantly occurring. In this neoliberal urban landscape, the capital disregards the history of ordinary people and nature (the commons). ‘Listen to the City’ has been dedicated to defining the significance of the commons in society and exploring ways to protect and enrich it. We utilize imagination to contribute to the commons rather than succumbing to capitalism.
One of the most crucial aims of ‘Listen to the City’s’ activities is to empower marginalized voices. This endeavor is closely related to Jacques Rancière’s concept of ‘The Distribution of the Sensible.’ Having a voice in the city implies that a person can actively participate in public discourse and have the opportunity to do so. ‘Listen to the City’ assists marginalized individuals in amplifying their voices. This discussion shares tactics and ideas on how we can protect our commons.