Curated by Nic Clear
Films and Drawings By:
Clemens Anser, Anna Götte, Pia Grobner, Cenk
Güzelis, Valentin Heutwieser, Niklas Jakobson, Cathy Leung, Daniela Mehlich,
Dominik Schwab, Veronika Susching, Benjamin Softic, Rumena Trendafilova
With support from
Daniela Herold and Eva Sommeregger
Exhibition 22nd June > 2nd July
Open Monday to Friday 11.00am to 5pm, Sat
11.00am to 4.00pm
The fundamental categories of economic analysis ceased to be, as
they had for two hundred years, land, labour and capital. This most elementary
classification was supplanted by people, ideas and things…..
David Warsh, Knowledge and the Wealth of
Nations
Someone
once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the
end of capitalism
Frederic Jameson
Collabocracy: Films and Drawings for Visionary Cities
The last few years have seen the rise of
alternative ways of organising within society, where networks replace
hierarchies and collaboration replaces competition. This new epoch will have a
profound impact on how we live, learn, work and socialise; it is an era that
will require new forms of individual and collective agency and will require new
types of space. Crucially, it will require new attitudes to making and
inhabiting spaces. We are entering the era of the ‘collabocracy’.
This exhibition is the result of a year long
collaboration between the University of Greenwich Department of Architecture
and Landscape and The Academy of Fine Arts, Institute for Art and Architecture
where Nic Clear has been Professor of Visionary Cities and has run a design
studio titled ‘Collabocracy’.
The design research of the films and
animations in this exhibition address issues around forms of collaborative and
open source ways of working and learning, their effects on identity, agency and
subjectivity and on the physical, social, technological and spatial
transformations that are taking place.
The effects of these transformations is
discussed in terms of their impact on the spaces used by individuals, groups
and organisations, and read through the lens of developments in contemporary
theory, economics, speculative fiction and the moving image, where such ideas
have become a key issues in the reframing of these discourses.
The focus is the City of Vienna, drawing on
its rich history in avant-garde and social activist design and intervention.
Through an engagement with radical practice the studio has looked at how the
city might reclaim an open system of action and organisation and speculate on
what type of architectures might take place there.
The studio has worked with film and animation
to generate, develop and represent its spatial propositions. It has also looked
at cinema, computer games, music and speculative literature as genres to help
imagine new futures and new spatial possibilities.
Nic Clear is Head of the Department of
Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich and Professor of Visionary
Cities at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna.
