WIJKREPANT ACTION GROUP OLD WESTEN, APRIL 1971; DEAR NEIGHBORS, OCCUPANCY HAVENSTRAAT 231, DELFSHAVEN, MARCH 2021; STOP THIS PLAN, GREENPARKHAVEN, MARCH 2021.
exhibition
05/06/2021 — 25/09/2021
TENT
ROTTERDAM CULTURAL HISTORIES # 19: HOMES FOR PEOPLE NOT PROFIT
Rotterdam artists' collective Fucking Good Art, together with various partners, is investigating the possibilities and difficulties of collective and self-organized forms of housing in Rotterdam.
How do we want to live? What kind of place do we need to live and work? What alternatives are there to the dominant forms of ownership and the market-driven housing policy at a time when space is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive and citizens are being pushed out of their homes? What can the role of art be in this? FGA invites you to look back and look ahead.
In the Shared Space of TENT and Kunstinstituut Melly, FGA presents plans, visions, the Housing Acts of 1901 and 2015, protests, and Jaap Bakema's fantastic manifesto from 1971 with 64 points for “many types of space quality” and “residential pleasure associations”.
This presentation is part of FGA's ongoing field research in the city, which can be followed through their blog and through interventions in public space. Every Friday evening from 17:00 PM to 18:00 PM, FGA provides talks and reports on Radio WORM. Together with TENT, FGA is investigating the possibilities of facilitating conversations for interested parties by means of a number of city walks and an online mini-symposium.
About Fucking Good Art
FGA is a magazine and editorial art project for field research into local conditions of art and culture. Artists / editors / free-style researchers Robert Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma are interested in oral history, counterculture, self-organization and DIT — do it together. In 'FGA # 38 What Life Could Be' they previously explored the Swiss tradition of CO-OPs as a form of living and working together, and in the series 'Countryside Issues' they wondered why artists in various European countries are leaving the city. This inspired their current research in their own city of Rotterdam, where collective and self-organized forms of housing do not gain a foothold despite the changed Housing Act of 2015 and the 'Rotterdam Cooperative Housing Action Plan' of 2019.
About Rotterdam Cultural Histories
In Shared Space, our shared exhibition space on the first floor, TENT and Kunstinstituut Melly take turns showing presentations on subjects from the history of art and culture in Rotterdam. This collaborative project was set up in 2014 to explore the common roots of both institutes in Rotterdam.