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Aggressive Cosiness – The Forever Young Pensioners, Ballykinlar, Northern Ireland

Embedded artists vs. interventionist residents It was in the early nineties that I discussed the term “interventionist” for the first time. Curator Sabine B. Vogel had used the term to describe the work of artists she had invited to a group show in the Vienna Secession, Oppositionen & Schwesternfelder. Dan Peterman, Joe Scanlan and the…
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29. October 2010
Maschinen aus Möglichkeiten | Ulrike Bergermann

im Gespräch mit Christoph Schäfer über sein Buch “Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik”, über Henri Lefebvre, die “Recht auf Stadt”-Bewegung, Zeichnungen und andere politische Medien, in: ZfM 3/2010, “Aufzeichnen” Fragen von Ulrike Bergermann am 24.5.2010 im Pudel Café, Hamburg “Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik” ist ein anspielungsreicher Titel für ein Buch aus 158 ganzseitigen…
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19. October 2010
The City is Our Factory (Book), Christoph Schäfer

The City is our Factory, by Christoph Schäfer, Leipzig 2010, 306 pages, 28 €, ISBN: 978-3-940064-95-0, Spector Books The City is Our Factory is a visual essay in 158 drawings. In six chapters, the artist Christoph Schäfer develops a rhizomatic history of the urban space: From primordial mud to the “Right to the City” movement…
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19. January 2010
Factory City – MIT Fall Lecture Series “CITY AS STAGE, CITY AS PROCESS”

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4174-christoph-schaefer-factory-city September 28, 2009. The City is our Factory: Politics of desire and the production of urban spaces between Grande Latte and Park Fiction. In the new urban fabric, subcultures, cultural workers, musicians and artists play a significant role as producers of collective spaces, places shaped by desires; as inventors of new perspectives and…
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28. September 2009
Strategic Embellishment

first published in: Fight Specific Isola – Art, Activism and the Future of the City * Abbellimento Strategico – Strategic Embellishment The dream city, as it should be for a dream city, is located on an island; separated from the centre by a train station, in the shadow of a postmodern tower building, outdated already…
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30. July 2009
Kunst, Partizipation und die ewigen Werte der Bourgeoisie

Kunst, Partizipation und die ewigen Werte der Bourgeoisie von Christoph Schäfer „We don’t just want a piece of cake – we want the whole fucking bakery“ schmückt – handgeschrieben – die Tür der Schultoilette: Wer in den 1970er Jahren im Ruhrgebiet oder in irgendeinem anderen Teil der westlichen Welt aufwächst, kommt an diesem Slogan nicht…
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14. December 2008
Konstituierende Praxis (2006)

Eigentlich will die Kunst Berge versetzen, die Welt nicht nur interpretieren, sondern vom Kopf auf die Füße stellen und Scheiße in Gold verwandeln. Das gelingt manchmal, in revolutionären Momenten. Doch die sind selten und meist schnell vorbei – und schon heißt „Nähe zur Wirklichkeit“ wieder „Unterwerfung unter deren Zumutungen“, Reformismus, Anpassung, Kompromiß, Verrat. In wesentlichen…
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6. June 2007
Networks of Imagination

…talk on the connection between Renaissance Explorers and Auto-Rikshaw-Drivers, Urban Imagination, Cybermohalla, Park Fiction, atelier d’architecture autogerée, Axel Claes’ work on, in, with and against the unemployment office, Liverpool, Anne Querrien and more. An inspired but somewhat lengthy talk in clumsy english, due to the fact, that the audience was totally uninterested, tired of listening…
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6. May 2005
Park Fiction | Documenta11 | Kassel | 2002

Park Fiction organises Collective Productions of Desires for a park in Hamburg’s red light district, St.Pauli, since 1995. For more and detailed information in German as well as in English please turn to the website to the project’s website: park-fiction.net A costly building was planned here originally, but the neighborhood stopped the development in 1997.…
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11. June 2002