Luna Nera has been working as an artist-curator organisation since 1997 in London. Luna Nera aims to stimulate interest in the environmental and architectural heritage of localities. By asking the audience to re-look at sites in a new way, Luna Nera addresses a series of issues around ideas of society, community, history, memory and public space. Our mission is to reclaim disused or abandoned "forgotten" spaces through art. The work is created and presented in direct response to the environment, transcribing histories, memories, textures and functions into art.

Luna Nera is concerned with exploring the conjunction of theory and practice in site-specific/site-responsive work, through a series of projects that also include text, talks and workshops.

Luna Nera operates as a kind of mobile gallery or institute of urban projects, as a network of projects and persons. We commission local and international artists to produce live and visual site-responsive works. We make onsite residencies and researches, and have created a number of large-scale live and visual art events in disused premises, including:

• The Old Colosseum, a Victorian theatre London
• The House of Detention, a 17thC underground prison London
• former factory spaces, London, Berlin and Zurich
• Natwest Bank building , London
• Electricity Plant, Russia
• Former naval base buildings, Russia
• Tram depot, Weimar
• St Pancras Chambers, former Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras Station London
• Former Harland & Wolff shipyard Head Offices, Belfast - once the largest shipyard in the world, where the Titanic was designed and built.

Luna Nera's video work documenting their projects has been shown in many festivals and venues including Art Moscow 2001; the Institute of Contemporary Art and Gallery 291 in London; the 6e Bienniale Champ Libre Manifestation Internationale Vidéo Et Art Électronique, Montréal; the Paradise Bunker Berlin; the Atelier des Artistes de cité d'Alexandrie; the Central Exhibition Hall St Petersburg; the VidiFestival Valencia and more.

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Currently Luna Nera works as a network of artists and practices, co-operating with artists in Barcelona and Berlin:.

Luna Nera BCN - Luna Nera BCN is an organisatin based in Barcelona, started by Luna Nera founder Sandrine Albert, with an empahasis on site specific live art. website: www.luna-nera-bcn.org / contact

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