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How to transcend land grab economies, even by means of art? The reader REALTY moves from the safety of critique to the vulgarity of suggestions. The pandemic's effect on mobility presents a historic opportunity. Rarely has criticism of our extractive artworld logic of one-place-after-another been louder. REALTY is a long-term curatorial program by Tirdad Zolghadr (*1973), initially commissioned by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. With the help of numerous artists and experts who contributed over 2017-2020, this reader revisits how contemporary art can contribute to decisive conversations on urbanism.
TIRDAD ZOLGHADR (*1973) is a curator and writer. He is currently artistic director of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee. Curatorial work over the last two decades includes biennial settings as well as long-term, research-driven efforts, most recently as associate curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2016-20.
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CoverContentsPreface - Tirdad ZolghadrProvisional Global Snapshots - Tirdad ZolghadrCapitalizing Antigentrification - Suhail MalikFinancializing the Development of Urban Neighborhoods: Thoughts on the Relationship between Art and Gentrification - Laura Calbet EliasThe Community Land Trust: A Model for Berlin's New Stadtbodenstiftung - Sabine HorlitzThe Land: From Pastoral Idyll to Sacrifice Zone - Marco ClausenA Landscape Study - Katya SanderPigeon Towers and Donkey Paths - Marion von OstenWas ist das Land? - Marion von OstenWhat Is Land? - Marion von OstenTo "Conquer a Province Peacefully"? How the Seizure of Land on the Rivers Oder, Netze, and Warthe Drove a Government to the Brink of Ruin - Simone HainRural Urbanization: Commodification of Land in Post-Oslo Palestine - Khaldun BsharaWho's Afraid of Ideology? - Marwa ArsaniosLand Reform: Utopia and Infrastructure: Historical Planning and Current Developments in Rural Brandenburg - Maria HetzerThe Red City of the Planet of Capitalism - Bahar NoorizadehRedistributing Risk: Tuleva as a Case Study - Kristel RaesaarA Speculative White Paper on the Aesthetics of a Black Swan World - Penny Raffertyterra0: An Introduction - By Paul SeidlerSpeculative and Practical Responses to Problems Bemoaned in the Provisional Global Snapshots - Tirdad ZolghadrBiographies
Summary
How to transcend land grab economies, even by means of art? The reader
REALTY
moves from the safety of critique to the vulgarity of suggestions. The pandemic’s effect on mobility presents a historic opportunity. Rarely has criticism of our extractive artworld logic of one-place-after-another been louder.
REALTY
is a long-term curatorial program by Tirdad Zolghadr (*1973), initially commissioned by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. With the help of numerous artists and experts who contributed over 2017–2020, this reader revisits how contemporary art can contribute to decisive conversations on urbanism.
TIRDAD ZOLGHADR (*1973) is a curator and writer. He is currently artistic director of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee. Curatorial work over the last two decades includes biennial settings as well as long-term, research-driven efforts, most recently as associate curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2016-20.
