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is located on an island; separated from the centre by a train station, in the shadow of a postmodern tower building, outdated already […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Arkadien, Cathy Skene & Christoph Schäfer, Galerie Backhaus Düsseldorf 1991 Videoloop, Polyesterbecken, Wasser, Pumpe, Quaterpipe, Fotoedition
Installation, Christoph Schäfer, Cathy Skene, Diskothek Unit, Talstrasse, Hamburg St. Pauli, 1989 Two rooms, a former separée and an adjoining lust-bath, secret rooms in the back of the acid house club Unit, were refurbished and equipped with video cameras. The images were transferred onto monitors in the disco, and vice versa, the images from the […]
