NOWs: Spaces of Commoning – a book launch

11. Juli 2017 / Nows

Book launch: Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday
at
Casco
Lange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA Utrecht

19:30 – 21:30 h
No reservation required. Free entrance.

With Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss and Julia Wieger

Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects, and social theorists, who, in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession, explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study. The power of the commons, this book suggests, does not reside in the promise of a coming together free of friction. As different dimensions of power organize the terrain of the social, social movements are often caught between competing agendas, and in the gap between aims and everyday life. It is precisely the sites of these struggles that the book calls spaces of commoning. As such, this study is part of a much wider recognition of the necessity to rethink and undo the methodological premises of Western sciences, arts, and architecture, and to raise unsettling questions on research ethos, accountability, and the entanglement of power and knowledge.

Edited by Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, Julia Wieger.
With contributions by Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Anette Baldauf, Tesfaye Bekele Beri, Aluminé Cabrera, Silvia Federici, Elizabeth Giorgis, Stefan Gruber, Stefano Harney, Moira Hille, Mihret Kebede, Annette Krauss, Lisa Lowe, Maria Mesner, Vladimir Miller, Stavros Stavrides, Pelin Tan, Team at Casco—Office for Art, Design and Theory, Brook Teklehaimanot, Ultra-red, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, Julia Wieger.

Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday

Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 18
Design by Surface
December 2016, English
16.5 x 22 cm, 20 b/w and 13 color ill., softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-266-3

Vorheriger Eintrag

NOWs: Display Distribute at Miss Read

14. - 16. Juli 2017 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: Display Distribute at Miss Read Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 14-16 July 2017 Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, exhibition space, distribution service and ’sometimes shop‘ based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Woven together by a serially enlisted cast of agents, the project engages in a wider discussion of globally enabled and dismantled forms of exchange amidst a late-capitalist networked production. Among them, the distribution and production of independent publications acts as a loosely organised confluence—dialogue and exchange on critical, self-organised practices across Asia/SE Asia. To facilitate small-scale distribution, transport of our books, zines and perodicals is carried out by LIGHT LOGISTICS, a person-to-person network enabled by the surplus carrying power of couriers engaging a mobile space for intimate and flexible forms of reading. For the duration of Miss Read Festival, a corporeal reading unit and mobile distribution node will present Display Distribute’s „SECOND(hand)MOUNTAIN(fortress)“ series of print-on-demand editions. For this launch, publications have been specially dedicated to readers courtesy of practitioners such as ZHANG Hanlu, Jong PAIREZ, Susanne BOSCH, Franz SCHUBERT, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, DANWARAREN, Renan LARU-AN, Elaine W. Ho, Ming LIN, Zikri RAHMAN, HomeShop, et al. Display Distribute and LIGHT LOGISTICS have initiated a series of events and other experiments of reading and writing at various hosting institutions, including: BANK (Shanghai), Irregular Rhythm Asylum (Tokyo) and Gasworks (London). NOWs: Display Distribute at Miss Read Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 14-16 July 2017 Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, exhibition space, distribution service and ’sometimes shop‘ based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Woven together by a serially enlisted cast of agents, the project engages in a wider discussion of globally enabled and dismantled forms of exchange amidst a late-capitalist networked production. Among them, the distribution and production of independent publications acts as a loosely organised confluence—dialogue and exchange on critical, self-organised practices across Asia/SE Asia. To facilitate small-scale distribution, transport of our books, zines and perodicals is carried out by LIGHT LOGISTICS, a person-to-person network enabled by the surplus carrying power of couriers engaging a mobile space for intimate and flexible forms of reading. For the duration of Miss Read Festival, a corporeal reading unit and mobile distribution node will present Display Distribute’s „SECOND(hand)MOUNTAIN(fortress)“ series of print-on-demand editions. For this launch, publications have been specially dedicated to readers courtesy of practitioners such as ZHANG Hanlu, Jong PAIREZ, Susanne BOSCH, Franz SCHUBERT, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, DANWARAREN, Renan LARU-AN, Elaine W. Ho, Ming LIN, Zikri RAHMAN, HomeShop, et al. Display Distribute and LIGHT LOGISTICS have initiated a series of events and other experiments of reading and writing at various hosting institutions, including: BANK (Shanghai), Irregular Rhythm Asylum (Tokyo) and Gasworks (London).

Nächster Eintrag

NOWs: Into The Wild by Anne Duk Hee Jordan

09. Juli 2017 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: Into The Wild by Anne Duk Hee Jordan Into The Wild is a conceptual dinner by Anne Duk Hee Jordan in collaboration with the „Herbarium Leipzig“, in the framework of the Berlin Food Art Week. Into The Wild presents a table of long forgotten herbs, edible fragrance flowers, and ancient root knots. The visitors are invited to take part in an enjoyable adventure of their own perception and to consume in direct access to the presented fruits. The dinner table becomes a lavish heterotopy. It refers to crops which were formerly offered in the local markets, and have almost disappeared. Gradually, the „old“ returns. Such as The Night Candle, originating from North America, used to be one of the most important medicinal plants. In the 16th century, it was brought to Europe as an ornamental plant and cultivated in gardens. One quickly learned to use the potential of the plant as a vegetable. Into The Wild will be a sensual taste experience, going back to the basics, eating with our own hands, no plates, no forks, no knives: a tête a tête with the family of nettles and watercress species, tubers are prepared as ragout and we will get to know trees surprisingly different. Hallesches Haus Tempelhofer-Ufer 1 10961 Berlin Sunday, 7 pm 5 courses menu 45,00 Euro / person limited seats available Book your ticket. NOWs: Into The Wild by Anne Duk Hee Jordan Into The Wild ist ein konzeptuelles Dinner von Anne Duk Hee Jordan das in Kollaboration mit dem „Herbarium Leipzig“, im Rahmen der Berliner Food Art Week stattfindet. Into The Wild beschreibt eine Tafel längst vergessener Kräuter, essbare Duftblumen und alte Wurzelknollen. Die Besucher sind eingeladen sich auf eine genussvolle Abenteuerreise der eigenen Wahrnehmung zu begeheben und den direkten Zugang der dargebotenen Früchte zu verzehren. Die Tafel stellte eine lukullische Heterotopie dar. Sie weist auf Nutzpflanzen auf die früher auf den einheimischen Märkten angeboten wurden und zwischendurch wieder fast verschwunden sind. Nach und nach kehren die „Alten“ wieder zurück. Die Nachtkerze stammt ursprünglich aus Nordamerika und war eine der wichtigsten Heilpflanzen. Im 16.Jh wurde sie als Zierpflanze nach Europa gebracht und in Gärten kultiviert. Man lernte schnell das Potenzial der Pflanze als Gemüse zu nutzen. Into The Wild wird ein sinnlicher Geschmacksspaziergang werden. Die Besucher gehen zurück zum Basalen und essen mit ihren eigenen Händen, keine Teller, keine Gabeln, keine Messer: ein Tete a Tete mit der Familie der Brennnesseln und Kresse-Arten, alte Knollen zubereitet als Ragout und Bäume einmal anders kennengelernt. Hallesches Haus Tempelhofer-Ufer 1 10961 Berlin Sonntag, 19 h 5 Gänge-Menü 45,00 Euro/ Person begrenzte Teilnehmerzahl Ticket buchen.

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