DISEMPOWER YOURSELF!

"It was in the “Mobile Menu” of the project initiative “stay hungry”, where I first heard about the Trobriand Islands and their inhabitants in whose societies it is traditionally frowned upon to show hunger, to enjoy food or to spend a long time eating. In the West, however, it is considered particularly admirable to eat with pleasure and at the same time discipline a measure. I know that some people think I cannot measure, I cannot control my hunger." Amelie Jakubek, one of the organizational forces of this years Project Space Festival Berlin, hands us a personal view on how to encounter power structures.
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Beyond Toxic Autonomy

"Art is part of the fabric of the city, but it is up to artists and art workers to work towards determining what precise role it plays. What happens when they realise the white walls they built often turn out to be parking schemes for post-crisis investment? What happens when the walls begin to implode, or are demolished?" Sonja Hornung proposes to carefully chose dependencies in order to design a future notion of autonomy.
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