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“In this book we introduce escape not because we are looking for either a principle behind people’s actions or the hidden principle of historical change. Rather, focusing on escape allows us to imagine, see and interrogate those ordinary moments when people’s actions put processes in motion, processes which are effective in confronting the social order with a force of change that cannot be avoided, silenced, neglected, erased.
In retrospect, such moments can be explained in many different theoretical ways: as resistance, revolt, refusal, revolution, as an event. Rather than draw on these concepts inherited from twentieth-century political theory and practice, attuning ourselves to escape allows us to work with transformation that is more pertinent to process than to event, to skilfullness than to anticipation, to togetherness than to sublimation, to imagination than to logic, to joy than to seriousness.”
— Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century
AufAuf
Das Projekt AufAuf setzt sich mit innerstädtischen Brachflächen auseinander. Diese entstehen inmitten der Städte durch Strukturwandel und veränderte Ansprüche an den Stadtraum. Vielfach befinden sie sich außerhalb der Wahrnehmung der BewohnerInnen der Stadt und werden alleine von StadtplanerInnen und Immobilienentwicklern als Flächenreserve für neue Stadtentwicklungsprojekte vorgehalten. Dabei bilden sie als Räume ohne festgeschriebene Nutzung einen Rückzugsraum vor der determinierten Stadt und bieten verschiedenste Möglichkeiten der temporären Aneigung.
Source: aufauf.blogger.de
My Little Dead Dick - The diary of photographers Patrick Tsai (A.K.A. Pat Pat) and Madi Ju. 2006-2007
Source: farm1.static.flickr.com
break out
Three movies about living in a typical western society apartment/home. Surprisingly, all of them work with the atmosphere and very little dialogue. They have the pressure and conflict with the society as a topic.
In this context, i can recommend the sproutbau project, a summer live-in experiment back in August 2007. An empty multistory building at the edge of Bremen, Germany. Temporary inhabitants are looking to explore individual living utopias. The ideas are artistic and/or in the field of self-sufficient, sustainable living.
- My Photos from Sproutbau - Blog - Network
Siebente Kontinent (1989) aka The Seventh Continent
JP Dare mo shiranai (2004) aka Nobody Knows
Playmobil Security Check Point
Product Review: “I was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5 year old son pointed out that the passenger’s shoes cannot be removed. Then, we placed a deadly fingernail file underneath the passenger’s scarf, and neither the detector doorway nor the security wand picked it up. My son said “that’s the worst security ever!”. But it turned out to be okay, because when the passenger got on the Playmobil B757 and tried to hijack it, she was mobbed by a couple of other heroic passengers, who only sustained minor injuries in the scuffle, which were treated at the Playmobil Hospital.”
Source: amazon.com
T.S.A. Communication
T.S.A. Communication is a project that alters the airport security experience and allows the government to learn more about you then just what’s in your backpack. Thin 8.5 x 11 inch laser-cut sheets of stainless steel comfortably fit in your carry on bag, simultaneously obscuring the contents you don’t want the TSA to see while highlighting ideas you do want them to see. Change your role as air traveler from passive to active.
no pants 2008 (via katie sokoler)
