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Things That Were Are Things

janine — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:12:10 +0000

What do art museums have to do with climate change? Do they need to radically transform the way they work? The publication Things That Were Are Things Again accompanies the collection exhibition of the same name at the GfZK – Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig. This was the museum’s first attempt to produce a climate-neutral exhibition. The curators and designers of the exhibition reflect on the two-year working process, during which they tried out resource-saving and climate-friendly strategies and dealt with climate change from various perspectives. 24 artistic positions, mainly works from the museum’s collection, but also several new productions, examined technological, political, economic and cultural aspects of climate change. How sustainable can plastic be? Have the ‘tropics’ always been the future? Can the principles of permaculture be applied to artistic endeavours?

With works by Lara Almarcegui, Lars Bergmann, Kent Chan, Céline Condorelli, Katarína Dubovská, Ólafur Elíasson, Till Exit, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Interspecies Society, Christine Hill, Johanna Kandl, Inga Kerber, Imi Knoebel, Hanne Lippard, Muntean/Rosenblum, Olaf Nicolai, Dan Peterman, Maren Roloff, Christoph Schäfer, Sean Snyder, Sarah Sze, Auke de Vries

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Hyper Cultural Passengers. Sharing Aesthetics Across Co-Contemporary Collectives

janine — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:16:42 +0000

Hyper Cultural Passengers examines placelessness, digitality, and networking without understanding culturality as identity.

Cultural proximity is outlined as a constructive dissent of artistic and intellectual articulations transverse to national and cultural categorizations.

HyperCulturality as a family resemblance (Wittgenstein) offers seemingly foreign art and cultural practices an unconstrained exchange of artistic action and theoretical reflection. The volume Hyper Cultural Passengers asks how art and philosophy can contribute to generating spaces of dialogue that are not territorial and borne of national self-assertion.

The volume documents the project started in Hamburg in 2016 that outlines a broad spectrum of positions in hyper cultural art and cultural practices. The myth of the autonomous subject is problematized with different formats such as artist-in-residences, conferences, lecture series, workshops, or co-cookings. The figure of the hyper cultural passenger is proposed instead: these come from Japan, China, South Korea, India, Jordan, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Iceland, and the USA, among others.

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The Myth of Social Housing

janine — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:45:06 +0000

For some time now, the housing question has once again been a subject of public debate: the issue of housing provision for those who have nothing to gain from a booming real estate market. This also includes people seeking refuge. The response to demands for more social housing, however, is limited: there has not been enough new construction to compensate for the number of social housing units lost due to the expiry of occupancy commitments for publicly assisted housing. But is the social housing system even capable of guaranteeing low rents in the long term?

This publication clears up misunderstandings and explains why social housing of the sort built in the German Federal Republic and West Berlin is a myth. Instead of meeting the long-term needs of low-income households it has so far primarily been about promoting economic development and private property ownership, instead of meeting the long-term needs of low-income households. This is reason enough to examine the principle of social housing and ask why it is so difficult to reform.

The third, revised edition of The Myth of Social Housing provides updated figures and content in Andrej Holm’s text, as well as a new introduction by the editors, Ulrike Hamann and Sandy Kaltenborn, which reflects on Berlin’s housing policy changes of the last ten years.

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