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Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik | Spector Books | 2010
Christoph Schäfer, 304 Seiten, 150 Zeichnungen, deutsch / english, 34 x 23.9 cm, Gestaltung: Ina Kwon, Spector Books Leipzig 2010, Gewicht: 1260 g, ISBN: 978-3-940064-95-0, 28.00 €, http://www.spectorbooks.com/ “Die Stadt ist unsere Fabrik” rechnet mit Leser_innen, die alles ganz anders lesen als vorgesehen. Es ist kein abgeschlossenes Werk. Es wird performt und verändert und übersetzt.…
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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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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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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is located on an island; separated from the centre by a train station, in the shadow of a postmodern tower building, outdated already…
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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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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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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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Hoang’s Bistro – Shrinking Cities, GfzK Leipzig 2005
What defines a city? Is it possible to dance critical urban theory? In this video, produced in 2005 for the exhibition “shrinking cities” in GfzK Leipzig, conceptual artist Christoph Schäfer, author of “The City is Our Factory”, dives into the secret life of shopping malls and post-modern train stations and arcades to uncover the invisble…
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Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space 2003
Curated by Margit Czenki, Christoph Schäfer and Christiane MennickeC Congress: June 26th – 29th, Video by Abbildungszentrum Peter Ott / Doro Carl for Park Fiction, 2003, with: Ala Plastica/La Plata Isola Art Center+Office for Urban Transformation/Mailand expertbase/Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg Maclovio Rojas+Borderhack/Tijuana Sarai Media Lab/Delhi Galerie für Landschaftskunst Hamburg Lignas Musicbox Hamburg Park Fiction /…
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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.…