This blog is part of a project by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen und Helmut Weber) in Cooperation with the Kunstraum Lüneburg at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Leuphana Arts Program.
Showing posts with label autogestion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autogestion. Show all posts

Filling the Weak Points / Seminar / Workshop

“Autogestion must be studied in two different ways: as a means of struggle, which clears the way; and as a means for the reorganization of society.” [1] 
Henri Lefebvre

“Autogestion is not based on the what, but in the how.”
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Marina Sitrin

This project investigates the possibilities for artistic production to research and represent social relations and movements. In particular we are concerned with forms of social organizing and movements which, as Marina Sitrin describes them “create the future in the present.”[3] Against the backdrop of a crisis in capitalism and the state that is making both the present and the future more precarious, we are looking at contemporary social movements that can be described as new forms of autogestion, or self-management (or horizantalidad in Spanish) that have emerged under the conditions we find ourselves in.