OPEN/OCCUPY: Open House Flutgraben - Gentrifizierung, Künstler*innen und mögliche Zukünfte / Gentrification, Artists and Possible Futures

OPEN/OCCUPY contains reactions to an Open Call to occupy Flutgraben studio house in 2018; interwoven with essays by central groups from the independent art scene in Berlin.

Open/Occupy is a direct response to the ongoing process of gentrification in Berlin. The struggle and worry of losing one’s living and working space is enhanced on a daily base. Open/Occupy believes that the city needs artists because art generates critical knowledge and creates community; art offers alternative visions of the future through experiential forms of discourse; art promotes open-mindedness towards the unknown and the potential of becoming. Together we work towards strategies of civic empowerment, motoring social change, sustaining Freiräume/open spaces and creating a new solidarity-based politics of space.

Collected by / zusammengestellt von: Mikala Hyldig Dal
Design: Pascal Stodieck
The printed books have been subjected to handmade interventions; they are unique copies in an edition of 500 (hand-numbered).