Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #11

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 7 pm

Spatial Question

Lecture Performance with Real Estatics (Jennifer Bennett, Lene Benz, Alice Peragine)

Due to personal experiences arises the question: What can be done to defend living spaces? How can they be occupied and transformed through aesthetic practices? There is no right to living space; a possible squatting law is to be elaborated for Europe. To whom do the stones piled up by workers into houses in the city belong to? Power relations become visible in the spatial question. Based on collective organizing new spaces should be opened. The artist group Real Estatics (Jennifer Bennett, Lene Benz, Alice Peragine) for the first time presents their research about political and philosophical discourses about property and appropriation of space. Using current examples stategies against a commercial management of space in european cities will be discussed. At the same time the office of Stadtkuratorin Hamburg undergoes a transformation as a sign of an artistic reinterpretation and appropriation.

Jennifer Bennett, born in 1976 in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) studies at HfbK, Hamburg and currently lives in Berlin. As an artist she has realized exhibitions, performances and lectures. In 2015 her book Save will be published with Textem publishers Hamburg. Lene Benz was born in 1984 in Tübingen, Germany. She Studied Urban Design at HafenCity University and is working in Hamburg in different projects in the field of urban research and design. Alice Peragine was born in 1986 in Munich. She lives and works in Hamburg and examines social, visual and institutional structures in her performative installations and site-specific interventions.