Doccupy


09/07/2012

PRESS RELEASE

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev welcomes the occupy movement:

'I welcome the "doccupy" movement in Friedrichsplatz, which has grown over the last weeks. It continues the wave of democratic protests that have been spreading across many cities in the world. It enacts the possibility of re-inventing the use of public space and appears to me to be in the spirit of the moment and in the spirit of Joseph Beuys who marked documenta and its history significantly, embodying another idea of collective decision making and political responsibility through direct democracy.

With this welcome, I also want to affirm the abilities of the people involved to care for the square, and to take responsibility for the space that they have the right to occupy, to consider the City of Kassel and the other visitors of documenta in a worldly spirit of germination and flourishing.'

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Imagine you are a young artist from Iran on its way to Europe anno 2013. Like any other young artist, your creativity emerges from self-struggle, starting from the question what it could mean today, to present yourself as an artist. Like all your fellow students from Belgium, you try to develop some new experiments of your own. DR - 20.06.13

Call for a dialogue in Turkey 18.06.13
As public cultural institutions dedicated to the sharing and support of a wide range of ideas and information, we deplore the violent suppression of legitimate public protest in Turkey.
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On Friday night Swiss police fired rubber bullets and teargas at an artist-activist group who took over Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata and architect Christophe Scheidegger's politically uncomfortable 'favela cafe' at Art Basel, a fully working eatery in the guise of Brasil's ad-hoc urban areas. Art Basel had allowed the group to protest for a limited time. (video) DR - 17.06.13

Superuse: meet the Dutch architects transforming the world with waste. A new exhibition shows how to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds, make a playground out of old wind turbines – and how much you can do with a windscreen DR - 12.06.13

Orhan Pamuk in The Newyorker: In order to make sense of the protests in Taksim Square, in Istanbul, this week, and to understand those brave people who are out on the street, fighting against the police and choking on tear gas, I’d like to share a personal story. DR - 09.06.13

More on OccupyGezi in Turkey. Part 1 & Part 2 DR - 08.06.13

We’ve braved our fair share of long lines at the Venice Biennale. Waiting’s rarely fun, but it hasn’t been entirely awful thanks to artist Jonas Staal and De Heren van Design’s “Ideological Guide to The Venice Biennale”. We’ve been reading a lot of it. DR - 31.05.13

Mugshot vs. Facebook = Surveillance vs. Social Media. DR - 30.05.13

Dioramas by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, to be shown in Venice, reconstruct his illegal detention in China in minute detail. DR - 29.05.13

Iraq pavilion challenges 'rockets and bombs' view of country to showcase an art world painstakingly emerging from shadow of Saddam and invasion. DR - 29.05.13

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