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Inside the Invisible

May 17, 2018May 21, 2018 David Siegel 0 Comments art, documentary, homeless, Kamen Stoyanov, Ljubljana, movie, place hacking, video

“Time appears longer when you cannot see.” A poignant and powerful phrase from the beginning of Kamen Stoyanov’s documentary IN-VISIBLE.

Place Hacking Places Seen Beyond Topics Topography of Memory

The Lion, the “Which” and the War Told

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 David Siegel 0 Comments art, art history, art in public space, Atlanta, documentary, exhibition, Film, Katharina Swoboda, Kunsthalle Luzern, Lion, Lucerne, USA, war

There is a bit of Darwin to Katharina Swoboda’s lions. An origin of a species of lion, one might say, migrating and changing but despite being made of stone. The Lion of Atlanta: a Research Story explores the one of the distant relatives of the Lion of Lucerne, which has made its home in Atlanta, USA since 1894.

Events Place Hacking

Made in Turkiye

April 17, 2017April 30, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Ala Onur, exhibition, Hasköy Spinning Factory, istanbul, Made in Turkiye, NoLab

NoLaB presents the exhibition Made in Turkiye until the end of June 2017 at Hasköy Spinning Factory in Istanbul. No

Events Place Hacking

Earth Pass

January 2, 2017January 5, 2017 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments betty stürmer, Earth Pass, exbibition, identity, migration, workshop

From Multitude to Participation The exhibition Earth Pass – Visions for Berlin – From Multitude to Participation is the result of

Events Place Hacking Seen Beyond Voices

Should I Stay Or Should I Go

June 25, 2016June 25, 2016 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Arie Amaya-Akkermans, brexit, DiEM25, eu, exhibition, Hannes Jaenicke, Jonas Staal, Léopold Lambert, Occupy Democrats, The Clash, Yanis Varoufakis

1982 the English punk rock band The Clash released the Song Should I Stay Or Should I Go, and they reached

Détournement Place Hacking

Make America Great Again

May 8, 2016May 9, 2016 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments facebook, illma gore, Make America Great Again, My bod is yours, performance, tattoo, trump

If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it’s Trump The artist’s pencil drawing by

Place Hacking

Calligraffiti

April 8, 2016April 8, 2016 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art in public space, cairo, Calligraffiti, calligraphy, eL Seed, graffiti, Graffiti Art, street art

The more you go to the East, the more you reach the West. The Tunisian-French street artist eL Seed has

Détournement Place Hacking

New Land, New Utopias – Part II: Micro Nations

February 19, 2016April 28, 2018 Josefine Berkholz 0 Comments Autonomous regions, Christiania, commune, Léopold Lambert, Micronations, nation, Sealand, States, utopia

What is a nation? Surprisingly enough, international law doesn’t give a satisfying answer to that. So why not invent one?

Détournement Place Hacking Urban Voices

New Land, New Utopias – Part I: Floating Territory

January 22, 2016May 1, 2018 Josefine Berkholz 0 Comments Blank spots, Chinampa, environmentalism, floating islands, New Atlantis, Richart Sowa, Spiral Island, Territory, uru, utopies

The Guano Island Act, a US law passed in 1856 and still effective, says that every US citizen who finds

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One aspect of Place Hacking can be described as Urban Exploration.

Devotees around the world explore the hidden sides of cities - abandoned buildings, underground tunnels, sewer systems, unused stretches of subway or old industry plants.

The movement uses the potential of existing public space and transform it into a moving environment.

Guerrilla Gardening as a form of Place Hacking is gardening on land that the gardeners do not have legal right to use, often an abandoned site or area not cared for by anyone.

We understand Urban Knitting as well as a form of Place Hacking that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre.

The celebration of May Day around the world is seen also as a phenomena that deals with the relationship between artistic practices and political action.