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Dan Dubowitz. Born 22 June 1969, British. Based in UK and Italy.

The spaces that we abandon reveal much about ourselves and the psyche of contemporary societies. The ways in which we respond to these 'leftovers' shape not only the emerging city but the society it constructs.

Dan Dubowitz has been investigating wastelands for 17 years, as an artist and as an architect. Trained in architecture at Sheffield University and after working for Peter Eisenman in New York in 1992-93, he began to develop a practice as an artist using photography in parallel to architectural work. From 1996-2002 Dan co-directed the Heisenberg project in Glasgow, UK, and taught at architecture and fine art faculties in UK universities.

In 2003 Dan established Civic Works, to concentrate on photography and 'cultural masterplanning'. Since then Dan has developed cultural masterplans for Glasgow, Sunderland, Newcastle, Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent in the UK. This has led to a number of permanent and temporary city-scale artworks in public places:
photography/installation: 'The Peeps' and 'The Cutting Room' public square, Manchester.
film/performance: 'Tattered Outlaws of History', Dublin, now touring, with choreographer Fearghus O'Conchuir.
film/projection/air balloon: 'Searchlight' with artist David Cotterrell, Sunderland.
architecture/photography: 'The Peeps' & 'The Cutting Room', Ancoats Manchester.

Throughout this period Dan has undertaken a number of purely photographic projects. In 2008 Dan began shifting the focus of his practice from cultural masterplanning to photography. In 2010 two books have been published to accompany exhibitions touring Europe and America:
'Fascismo Abbandonato' and 'Wastelands' Dewi Lewis Publishing.
'The Peeps' and 'Breaking the Mould' Manchester University Press.

dan@civicworks.net
www.civicworks.net
+44(0)7970510415