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The Exhibition and Programs are Free and Open to the PublicBetween 1950 and 2000, more than 350 large
cities across the globe lost a significant shareof their inhabitants and businesses. What are
the strategies for dealing with shrinkage andwhat are some models for action?

In a ground-breaking collaboration, Cranbrook Art
Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit (MOCAD) will host the two-part exhibition
Shrinking Cities – a project of the German Federal
Cultural Foundation. Focusing on four cities aroundthe world including Detroit, Halle/Leipzig (Germany),
Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), and Ivanovo (Russia),
Shrinking Cities  offers an in-depth survey of theworldwide phenomenon of urban depopulation as well
as visionary interventions by more than 200 artists,architects, filmmakers, academics and international
teams from over 12 countries, including almost
twenty artists working in Michigan.
Cranbrook Art Museum
Shrinking Cities: International Research

The first part of the exhibition explores the four
focus cities through diverse forms of documentation,
projects and installations by artists, architects,
filmmakers, journalists and researchers. Themes of thecontributors’ work include a global study of shrinking
cities, the change of urban landscapes, everyday
practices, and political conflicts under the conditionsof urban decline.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
Shrinking Cities: Interventions

The second part of the exhibition focuses on alternativemodels of intervention within shrinking cities andis divided into five areas: Negotiating Inequality, Self
Governance, Creating Images, Organizing Retreat, andOccupying Space. Commissioned projects range fromartistic interventions and self-empowerment strategies,
to new legal regulations and utopian visions.

Sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation

Take the Bus: Shrinking Cities
A free bus will run every Saturday
and Sunday between Cranbrook
Art Museum and MOCAD for theduration of Shrinking Cities.

Shrinking Cities Bus Schedule:
Saturdays and Sundays,
February 3 – April 1, 2007
Cranbrook to MOCAD:
12 noon, 1:30 pm, & 3 pm
MOCAD to Cranbrook:
12:45 pm, 2:15 pm & 3:45 pm
Free Admission
Free Admission for all visitors
and tour groups to Cranbrook Art
Museum during the Shrinking
Cities exhibition is sponsored byMASCO. Additional educational
programming at MOCAD issponsored by Compuware.

For a complete list of programs,visit www.cranbrook.edu or
www.mocadetroit.org.

Cranbrook Art Museum
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
248-645-3323
www.cranbrook.edu
Wednesday – Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
Fourth Fridays: 11 am – 9 pm
Admission is Free during
Shrinking Cities.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit (MOCAD)
4454 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
313-832-6622
www.mocadetroit.org
Wednesday and Sunday: 12 – 6 pm
Thursday – Saturday: 12 – 8 pm
Admission is Free.

Friday, February 2, 9 pm-12 midnightMusic at MOCAD
Odu Afrobeat with Human Eye
Odu Afrobeat is a fourteen-piece Afro-beatorchestra featuring some of Detroit’s finest
musicians. The band Human Eye will also
perform. $10 cover charge.
Saturday, February 3, 1:30 pm & 7 pm
Cranbrook Art Museum: 1:30 pm
MOCAD: 7 pm
LecturePhilipp Oswalt on Shrinking Cities
Chief Curator and Project Director forShrinking Cities, Philipp Oswalt from Berlin
will give a presentation on the history ofthe project.
Saturday, February 3, 3 pm
Artists Talk at Cranbrook
Kyong Park
Artist and Co-Curator of the Detroit section ofthe exhibition Shrinking Cities, Kyong Park willtalk about his video Old House, New House.
Sunday, February 4, 12 noon
Artists Talk at MOCAD
Jon Brumit presents Pioneers
San Francisco artist Jon Brumit will speak
about his radio-based driving tour of selectDetroit neighborhoods that highlights thepioneering spirit of city residents.
Sunday, February 4, 2 pm
Panel Discussion at MOCAD
Improve Your Lot! New Responses toVacant Land: A Discussion
In recent years, many Detroit residents havepurchased vacant, city-owned lots adjacentto their homes. This roundtable discussion
will bring together stakeholders to discuss
the challenges and opportunities involvedin making such purchases. Roundtableparticipants will include Tobias Armborst,
Daniel D’Oca & Georgeen Theodore(Interboro), Margaret Dewar (Professor ofUrban and Regional Planning, Universityof Michigan), Stephen Zacks (Metropolis
magazine), and others.

Sunday, February 4, 4 pm
Panel Discussion at MOCAD
Ingo Vetter and Steven Vogel:
Urban Agriculture
A discussion about local and global urban
agriculture with Ashley Atkinson, Program
Director of Greening of Detroit and Co-Chairof Detroit Agricultural Network, Ingo
Vetter of Berlin and Steven Vogel, Dean ofArchitecture, University of Detroit Mercy.
A screening of Ingo Vetter and Annette
Weisser’s film, I am Farming Humanity, will
precede the lecture.
Friday, February 9, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
A Night of Detroit Underground Electronics
Hear broken electronics and fractured dancemusic by Viki and a performance by electrodance duo, Ectomorph. DJ Christopher Fachiniwill power up the rock-box sound system.
Saturday, February 10, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk at CranbrookIdeas & Process: Cranbrook Academyof Art graduate students will talk about
Shrinking Cities and offer studio toursof their departments.
Saturday, February 10, 3 pm
Films at Cranbrook with Filmmaker Robert Lee
Minima Moralia, 2005, Robert Lee, 80 min.
Presented in partnership with the Media City
13 Festival of Windsor, video artist Robert Leeof Toronto will present his film Minima
Moralia, which appropriates images fromfeature films and touches on topics of emigration,
isolation and the general randomness ofmetropolitan life. This presentation issponsored by Artcite Inc./House of Toast with
the Media City 13 Festival, Windsor.
Friday, February 16, 9 pm
Music at MOCADFrank Pahl and Dan DeMaggio
Artist, object maker and modern composer,Pahl will perform a monologue and somesolo musical compositions. A Detroit-area
writer and performer, DeMaggio integrates
his wry observational writings withmusical accompaniment.

Saturday, February 17, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk at CranbrookIdeas & Process: Cranbrook Academyof Art graduate students will talk about
Shrinking Cities and offer studio toursof their departments.

Saturday, February 24, 6 pm
Artists Talk at MOCADDan Peterman and Dan Wang
Chicago-based artists Dan Peterman (ofExperimental Station) and Dan Wang (of MessHall) will speak on their ongoing projects.

Saturday, February 17, 7 pm
Films at MOCAD
Detroit Park, 2005, Julie Murray, 8 min.
Detroit Block, 2006, Julie Murray, 7 min.
Invisible City, Jack Cronin, 11 min.
Vacancy, Brandon Walley, 6 min.
I Pity the Fool, Brent Coughenhour, 90 min.

Sunday, February 25, 1:30 pm
Literary Reading at Cranbrook
Imaginary Cities: Writers respondto Shrinking Cities
Detroit-based writers William Copeland,Lynn Crawford, Robert Fanning andKim Hunter are featured in this afternoonof spoken word about the city of Detroit.

Sunday, February 18, 1:30 pm
Artists Talk at Cranbrook
Christopher McNamara and John Ganis
Shrinking Cities artists Christopher
McNamara and John Ganis will discuss
their work.
Friday, February 23, 7  – 8 pm
Music at Cranbrook
Sound Effects: Music Builds Community
in Shrinking Cities
Gallery talk and music by Walter Wasacz.
Friday, February 23, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
Raw Truth Ensemble
World-class Detroit Jazz Improvisation
Raw Truth Ensemble, headed by MichaelCarey (reeds), Skeeter C.R. Shelton (multiplereeds) and Ali Allen Colding (percussion),
will accompany films selected by archivists
Timothy Caldwell and Giles Rosbury.
Special Shrinking Cities Bus Schedule
on February 23:

departs 6:15 pm MOCAD – Cranbrookdeparts 8:15 pm Cranbrook – MOCAD
departs 10:50 pm MOCAD – Cranbrook
Saturday, February 24, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk at CranbrookIdeas & Process: Cranbrook Academyof Art graduate students will talk about
Shrinking Cities and offer studio toursof their departments.

Thursday, March 1, 7 pmLecture at MOCAD
City Planning Discussion
Moderated by Kathryn Underwood (Detroit
City Planning Commission), participants
Marsha Bruhn (former Director of the CityPlanning Commission), Dorian Moore (AIA,Archives DS), Grace Lee Boggs (co-founder,The Boggs Center) and special guests from
the Mayor’s Office and the Planning andDevelopment Department will discuss thefuture of urban planning in Detroit.
Friday, March 2, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
His Name is Alive, Odd Clouds, plus
Crispy’s Rock Box Sound System
Progressive, cacophonous, neo-primitivenoise orchestra Odd Clouds performs with4AD recording artist and ever-evolving
experimental rock/soul/country band His
Name is Alive. Christopher Fachini will also
power up the rock-box sound system.
Saturday, March 3, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk at CranbrookIdeas & Process: Cranbrook Academyof Art graduate students will talk about
Shrinking Cities and offer studio tours of
their departments.

Saturday, March 3, 7 pm
Films at MOCAD with FilmmakerGeorge Corsetti.
Poletown Lives, 1982, George Corsetti.
Filmmaker George Corsetti will present hismuch acclaimed Poletown Lives that
documents the struggle among friends andneighbors against city bureaucrats andplanning experts. A discussion with Corsettion the lessons learned from Poletown and how
they can shape future urban development will
follow the screening.
Sunday, March 4, 1:30 pm
Lecture at Cranbrook
Transforming Disposable Commodities
into Sustainable Communities
Jason Booza from the Department of Political
Science, Wayne State University, will speak
about the relationship between the city ofDetroit and the suburbs from the viewpointof architecture and city planning.
Thursday, March 8, 6 pm
Panel discussion at MOCAD
Why Detroit?
Detroit is an international city witha fluctuating population of immigrants.
Moderated by Kemba N’Namdi of The
KAN Group Translation Company, thisdiscussion will include Ibrahim Aljahim ofthe Yemeni Arab-American Outreach, Maria
Thacker of Latino Family Services, anda representative from the United African
Community Organization.
Friday, March 9, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
The Blackman: Live with Larval
The Blackman features live MCs and amulti-instrumental funk rock ensemble
together with orchestral, progressive rockgroup Larval.
Saturday, March 10, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk at CranbrookIdeas & Process: Cranbrook Academyof Art graduate students will talk about
Shrinking Cities and offer studio toursof their departments.

Saturday, March 10, 6 pm
Artists Talk at MOCAD
Detroit Summer LAMP Workshop
Students from the Live Arts Media Project(LAMP) will conduct a workshop seeking
solutions for combating the growing problemof drop-outs in Detroit area schools.
Sunday, March 11, 1:30 pm
Panel Discussion at Cranbrook
Symptom and Waste: Comments on
Uselessness in the Fabric of the City
A panel of experts from the region’s leading
institutions will explore the theme of urban
architecture and design as a philosophical,
historical and cultural phenomenon. The
panel will be led by Dr. Michael StoneRichards of the College for Creative Studies.
Thursday, March 15, 6 pm
Lecture at MOCAD
Architects in a Shrinking City:AIA Discussion on Shrinking Cities
Organized by the Urban Priorities Committeeof the American Institute of Architects, thislecture centers on the exhibition with adiscussion about the role a shrinking city plays
for architects in Detroit.
Friday, March 16, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
Outrageous Cherry and The All Seeing Eyes
Classic 60s, pop-inspired rock-n-roll quartetOutrageous Cherry performs with Ex-Rocket
455. The traditional Detroit-styled rock-n-rollgroup The All Seeing Eyes opens the night.
Saturday, March 17, 7 pm
Films at MOCAD
Chicago-Detroit Split, 2005,
Thomas Comerford with Bill Brown, 11 min.
Figures in the Landscape, 2002,
Thomas Comerford, 11 min.
still/here, 2001, Christopher Harris, 60 min.
In Order Not to Be Here, 2002,
Deborah Stratman, 33 min.
Thursday, March 17, 9:30 pm
Music At MOCAD
Thinkbox with Paris ’68 DJs
Thinkbox member Chris McNamara assembles
members of the U.S./Canadian audio-visualcollective to perform a live electronic music/
video concert. DJs of the sonic art collective
Paris ’68 also will perform.

Sunday, March 18, 1:30 pm
Artists Talk at Cranbrook
Scott Hocking and Clint Snider
Shrinking Cities artists Scott Hocking andClint Snider present their work.
Thursday, March 22, 7 pm
Artists Talk at MOCAD
Mythological Psychogeographies:
Detroit and Music
Panel Discussion led by Walter Wasacz
featuring Faruq Z. Bey, Benjamin Miguel
Hernandez and others. A DJ session will follow
the panel discussion.
Friday, March 23, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
timeSTEREO presents Princess Dragon
Mom’s Passport to Infinty with Demons
Saturday, March 24, 7 pm
Films at MOCAD
Gordon Matta-Clark
Five rarely seen films by Gordon Matta-Clark
are screened including: Fire Child (1971),
Fresh Kill (1972), Day’s End (1974),
Conical Intersect (1975) and Sous-Sols deParis [Paris Underground] (1977).
The presentation of these films is sponsored bythe Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago.
Sunday, March 25, 1:30 pm
Artists Talk at Cranbrook
Mitch Cope, Benjamin Miguel Hernandez
and Jody Huellmantel
Shrinking Cities artists Mitch Cope (andCo-Curator of the Detroit section of theexhibition), Benjamin Miguel Hernandezand Jody Huellmantel present their work in
the exhibition.
Wednesday, March 28, 7 pm
Lecture at MOCAD
Changing Perceptions: Re-evaluating theImpoverished in a Shrinking City
Moderator Phillip Cooley leads a panel
discussion with individuals that haveexperienced homelessness and joblessness
in Detroit. The group will discuss their daily
hardships, revealing common experiences offear, stress and depression. Cooley’s designcollaborative, Los Pistoleros, and others will
discuss possible solutions.

Thursday, March 29, 6 pmLecture at MOCAD
Imagination, Process, Reality:
Three Projects for Development in Detroit
Gretchen Wilkins (University of Michigan),
Thomas Gardner and Matthew Miller (HousingOperative) and Phillip Cooley (Slow’s BBQ andLos Pistoleros) present their projects in Detroit.
Friday, March 30, 9 pm
Music at MOCAD
Jeff Karolski with Perfect Wieners and Butts
Multi-media musical performances from exAdult and Tamion 12 inch members, PerfectWieners and Butts and the notorious Jeff
Karolski will present a new conceptual
sound performance.
Saturday, March 31, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk at CranbrookIdeas & Process: Cranbrook Academy of Art
graduate students talk about Shrinking Cities
and give tours of their studios.
Saturday, March 31, 2 pm
Lecture at MOCAD
Sunflowers and Switchgrass:
Urban Phytoremediation
Greg and Vibeke Vendena of eco-designgroup co-lab will introduce the conceptof phytoremediation (plants cleaning up
contaminated soil) and how it can serve tothe improve and regenerate urban sites in amanner that is inexpensive, environmentallysensitive and socially relevant. A site visit
to the phytoremediation project at Bunche
Elementary School will follow the lecture.
Saturday, March 31, 7 pm
Films at MOCAD
I am Farming Humanity, Ingo Vetter andAnnette Weisser, 2001, 16 min.
The film features an interview with Lee Burns,retired engineer and co-founder of the Detroit
Agriculture Network.

Garden Stories, 2004, Boris Gerrets, 50 min.
Garden Stories focuses on the phenomenonof farming and gardening for subsistence
and as a means of social engagement inshrinking cities.

Related Shrinking Cities
Programming in the Region
January 26 – March 3
Exhibition
Shrinking Cities?
Wayne State University Responds
Elaine J. Jacobs Gallery
Wayne State University students and faculty
respond to the Shrinking Cities exhibitionin this multi-media show curated byEvan Larson.
February 13 – 17Films
Media City 13 Festival
Times on going, Windsor/Detroit
Media City is an annual international festivalof experimental film and video art, whichscreens approximately fifty films and hosts
retrospectives and discussions with artists.
Tuesday, February 13, 8 pm
Film at Detroit Film CenterMedia City 13 Festival
Opening night screening of Pine Flat byfilmmaker Sharon Lockhart. Detroit Film
Center, 1227 Washington Blvd., Detroit.
For more information,www.houseoftoast.ca/mediacity.
February 16, 6 pm – 9 pm
Exhibition Reception at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor
Imprint of Place
Gallery Project in Ann Arbor hosts Imprintof Place, a show that explores the role between
artists and location and place. Curated by
Gregory Tom, subject matter of the work
ranges from the relationship of the city to thesuburbs, to site-specificity, to mapping and thelandscape. This exhibition is on view February
14 through March 25. Gallery Project,
215 S. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor.
For more information,
www.thegalleryproject.com, or 734.997.7012.

Shrinking Cities is a project of theKulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal
Cultural Foundation) in cooperation withProject Office Philipp Oswalt, the Museumof Contemporary Art Leipzig, the Bauhaus
Dessau Foundation and the magazine
archplus. For more information visit
www.shrinkingcities.com.
Shrinking Cities is presented at Cranbrookthrough the support of the Museum
Committee of Cranbrook Art Museum;the members and fundraising activities ofArtMembers@Cranbrook; contributors to theAnnual Fund of Cranbrook Academy of Art
and Art Museum; and the Michigan Councilfor Arts and Cultural Affairs. Cranbrook Art
Museum’s 2006-2007 Exhibition Season issponsored by LaSalle Bank.
MOCAD and Cranbrook would like to thank
Benjamin Miguel Hernandez, Curator of theShrinking Cities Music Series, David Dinnell,
Curator of the Shrinking Cities Film Series,
and Gregory Tom, who coordinated theShrinking Cities Public Program Series.