Place Hacking Archives

Counterforce against Global Gentrification

June 23, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

Global Gentrification Istanbul, Shanghai, Berlin or San Francisco. Metropolitan flair, international inhabitants and diversity are certainly one of the first

Place Hacking Urban Voices

Art is Trash

June 20, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Trash is not a pleasant sight. Nobody likes to be around it. But it’s also a fact that you can’t

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Frozen Dreams

June 11, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

The Werkstattgalerie in Berlin serves 4 days long as a platform for live performance and video-projections dealing with

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Intervening in Public Space

May 19, 2014 Thomas Büsch

[widgetkit id=14639] For almost three decades, Harmen de Hoop has anonymously but consistently been intervening in public space. Whether

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May Day Celebration Around the World

May 1, 2014 Thomas Büsch

[widgetkit id=14500] May Day and its history of cultural celebrations have spanned throughout many hundreds of years of

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Habitable Paintings for Refugees at Art Cologne

April 16, 2014 Thomas Büsch

[widgetkit id=14293] On the occasion of the Art Cologne 2014 in Germany the German artist Hermann Josef Hack constructed

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Disobedience Archive (The Park)

April 11, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Exhibition at Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, opening April 22 about artistic practice in relation to political action: the videos and ephemera

Place Hacking

Art at the edge

April 8, 2014 Thomas Büsch

The Flemish curator Jan Hoet died February 27 in a Ghent hospital at the age of 77. Jan Hoet was

Place Hacking

The early Hacker at DIEHL CUBE, Berlin

April 2, 2014 Thomas Büsch

The Right Angle as a Socio-Political Art Concept Dieter Hacker is a German artist, who was one of the leading

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.