Statista - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3038601888 ISBN 13 : 9783038601883

Editeur : Park Books, 2020

Synopsis

• Collective project STATISTA is an outstanding example of collective urban development in booming Berlin
• Documents the project and offers insights into the STATISTA undertaking and events in and around the Haus der Statistik (HdS) in Belin
• An inspirational handbook for artists and activists in other metropolitan areas

The fate of Berlin's Haus der Statistik (HdS) seemed to have been decided. Built by a collective of architects in the 1960s to house the former communist German Democratic Republic's (GDR) office of statistics at Alexanderplatz, the heart of GDR's capital, it was meant to be demolished to make way for a new commercial structure. Yet in September 2015, the Berlin Alliance of Artists' Studios Under Threat initiated an art intervention at HdS, unfolding a giant banner covering most of the building's main façade, and the opening of a new public centre for all manner of social, cultural purposes in the building was publicly announced. The happening was essentially symbolic as the demolition of HdS had long since been approved. Yet within only a few years it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Today, the HdS is a unique pioneering project collectively defined and steered by a broad coalition of actors in the interests of collaborative urban development.

STATISTA, one of the art projects that has its base at HdS, explores how a cooperative urban development guided by common welfare could work on a long-term perspective. This book offers an insight into STATISTA and the events in and around HdS since 2015, aiming also to encourage artists and activists to emulate ideas and start to their own projects elsewhere.

Text in English and German.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, based in Berlin, aims to approach the key questions of our times through the production, display, and dissemination of contemporary art. ZK/U Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin is an artist residency, a space for research and production and a platform for exhibitions, conferences, and workshops related to social and cultural topics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Park Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: allemand
• ISBN 10: 3038601888
• ISBN 13: 9783038601883
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible