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Cranbrook Art Museum
Exhibition 1 – International Research
List of Contributions--------------------------------------------------------------------------------////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////GLOBAL STUDIES/COMPARISON-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin/Tim Rieniets; 1kilo, BerlinWORLD MAP OF SHRINKING CITIESAnimated map, 2006
Between 1990 and 2000, one in four of the world’s cities was shrinking. A map of
the world lists 350 shrinking cities of the past fifty years with a populationof more than 100,000.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin/Tim Rieniets et al.; 1kilo, Berlin
ATLAS OF SHRINKING CITIES
10 thematic world maps, 2002-2006
The atlas highlights the shrinking-city phenomenon vividly on a global scale andpresents important worldwide processes of loss, shift/displacement and transformation that underlie this phenomenon.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Antje Ehmann, film researcher, video artist and curator, Berlin
WEGE/PATHS
Video installation on 3 monitors, 9 min, 9 min, 6 min, 2004
How are urban shrinkage and decline represented in film images, and what function
do they have there? What recurring topics are shaped in film and how do they
influence our perception? In the context of a film research project, the authorof this film collected from various genres sequences.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Michael Baute, publicist, Berlin; Antje Ehmann, film researcher, video artist
and curator, Berlin; Johannes Ehmann, historian and journalist, Bochum
48 PLATTENCOVER/48 ALBUM COVERS
Installation: collection of records, 3 sound collages, 9 min, 8 min, 12 min,
2004
Black music of the early 1970s (soul and funk), punk from the late 1970s and the1980s, hip-hop since the early 1980s, and techno reflect the city and the dangers
to it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin/Elke Beyer et al.
CITY PORTRAITS
Series of 50 postcards, 2003/2004
A series of short portraits of shrinking cities all over the world displays thebreadth of the phenomenon and the various reasons for and forms of shrinking.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin/Anke Hagemann et al.
MOVING DATA
Computer animation, 2003/2004
Moving Data visualises the most significant movements in Detroit, Manchester/Liverpool, and Halle/Leipzig over the past five decades, with reference to population density, settlement area and urban structures.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Albrecht Schäfer, artist, Berlin
URBAN SCAN
Videoinstallation with 4 projections, 2003/2004
To convey a direct impression of the various shrinking cities, characteristic
urban situations were photographed from a slowly moving car at all four sites.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin/Anke Hagemann et al.
STATISTICS
Graphic panels, 2003/2004
Statistics show the paths of shrinkage in de-industrialization, suburbanization,
demographic aging, and polarization, thereby comparing the four examined regions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin/Elke Beyer et al.
CHRONOLOGIES 1900–2000
Text and image panels, 2004
The Chronologies document in text and image essential economic, political, andcultural events and processes that have shaped Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester/Liverpool and Halle/Leipzig in the last hundred years.

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HALLE/LEIPZIG-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clemens von Wedemeyer, artist and filmmaker, Berlin/Leipzig
SILBERHÖHE
Video installation, 10 min loop, 2003
Silberhöhe transports the viewer to the day and night of a shrinking city. The
camera moves, and the cuts follow an invisible story. But nothing happens and noone appears.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Laura Horelli, artist, Berlin; Kathrin Wildner, urban ethnologist, Hamburg
WOLFEN-NORD, TEIL 1: ICH BLEIBE HIER, HIER KENNE ICH MICH AUS, TEIL 2: BEVOR
ICH STEMPELN GEHE, FAHRE ICH LIEBER RAUS/WOLFEN-NORD, PART 1: I’M STAYING HERE –I KNOW MY WAY AROUND, PART 2: I’D RATHER COMMUTE THAN GO ON WELFARE
2 DVDs, each 13 min each, 2003/2004
Since the end of communism, almost half the residents of the pre-fab slab-constructed development Wolfen-Nord have left it. Today, the proportion of retirees
here is above average and the younger people often commute for a week at a time
as temp workers.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tobias Zielony, artist, Berlin/Leipzig
BEHIND THE BLOCK
9 photographs, 2003-2006
The everyday life of young people in the suburbs of Newport, Bristol, Marseille, andHalle. For many young people in these suburbs, growing up means seeking an identity of their own in a process of continually increasing societal marginalization.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andreas Siekmann, artist, Berlin
Faustpfand, Treuhand und die unsichtbare Hand. Theatrum Mundi Oeconomicus/Stationen eines Marktmechanismus/Collateral in Hand, Treuhand And the Invisible Hand.
Theatrum Mundi Oeconomicus/Stages of a Market Mechanism
Installation, 2005
A series of diagrams and an ensemble of mechanical figures illustrate the processof deindustrialization and capitalization of the economic structures of eastern
Germany. Alongside the activities of the Treuhand after the fall of Communism,it sheds light on the current neoliberal approach to industry in eastern Germany.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Konrad Knebel, artist, Berlin
UNTITLED
2 paintings, 1981/1992-1995; slide show, 1989
All his life, the painter Konrad Knebel has grappled artistically and politicallywith the phenomenon of the city. His painterly oeuvre is characterized by
depictions of the deterioration of cities and empty and demolished historical­structures.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nikolaus Brade, photographer, Halle
PLATTENBAUABRISS/DEMOLITION OF PREFABRICATED BUILDINGS
2 photographs, 2002
Two years ago, the first blocks of pre-fab slab-constructed buildings in HalleSilberhöhe were torn down. The remaining residents continue to live between
blocks of buildings that seem like mere backdrops, with blind windows andbricked-up entrances.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rochus Wiedemer, architect, Berlin
BELEUCHTETE WIESEN/ILLUMINATED MEADOWS
4 prints; map and text, 2003
A picture documentation of the misguided German policy of promoting built but
undertenanted business parks that compete for the settlement of new businesses.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////DETROIT-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Robert Andersen, filmmaker, Detroit
SLAM POETS FROM D, IN D
Video, appr. 10 min, 2004
A popular component of cultural life in Detroit is the Poetry Slams, which often
address everyday social life in the city. A short film with six Poetry Slamartists at selected sites in the urban space.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Scott Hocking, artist, Detroit
PICTURES OF A CITY: SCRAPPERS
Installation with 2 shopping carts and 40 photographs, 2001–2004
The cannibalization of empty buildings for scrap metal and other usable raw
materials is a survival strategy for many residents of Detroit’s inner city.
This installation with several parts documents the environs and lifestyle of thescrappers.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tyree Guyton, artist, Detroit, with Tammy Lynn Evans, graphic designer, Detroit,and Greg Siwak, attorney, Detroit
THE HEIDELBERG PROJECT
Project documentation with original objects in showcase, time line, video,
30 min, since 1986 Urban art projects on unused inner city land have triggeredenergetic responses, from support to vehement rejection. The project is a social
catalyst that also draws tourists into a moribund city district.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------John Ganis, photographer, Detroit
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF THE DETROIT METROPOLITAN AREA
4 photographs, 1987/2004
Ganis documents the consumption of landscape and the advance and penetration
into nature of new construction.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Peter Williams, artist, Detroit
LIFE ON A BLACK PLANET
Painting
The painting takes as its themes: American racism, questions of identity,and stereotypes in the context of urban life and popular culture.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clinton Snider, artist, Detroit
MEMORIAL
Painting, 2004
In a cityscape typical of Detroit – fragmented and only rudimentarily built up –people have mounted stuffed animals and other toys on a telephone pole in memoryof a child’s death.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------iCUE/Kyong Park, artist, Detroit
DETROIT: MAKING IT BETTER FOR YOU (A FICTION)
Video projection, 9:25 min, 2000
In this short video film in the style of an advertisement, Kyong Park develops apolemical conspiracy theory about how Detroit’s inner city came to be abandoned
and deteriorated – and who benefited from this.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------iCUE/Kyong Park, artist, Detroit
OLD HOUSE/NEW HOUSE: OLD CITY/NEW CITY
Video projection, appr. 20 min, 2003/2004
The double projection contrasts images of the old life of the inner city andof the new life in the suburbs. Interviews with residents of the inner city andthe suburbs reveal personal memories, life courses, everyday experiences, anddiffering realities.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrew Zago, architect, New York/Detroit
DETROIT BANKS
108 photographs, 1998–2004
This documentation of the current state and use of former bank branch offices
from the first half of the 20th century shows examples of the transformation of
the city. Conspicuous along with some abandoned buildings are also new uses
others have been put to.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mitch Cope, artist, Detroit
FORTIFICATIONS DETROIT
6 drawings, city map, 2004
This series of drawings documents six types of security and fortified facilities
in Detroit and its suburbs.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Benjamin Miguel Hernandez, artist, Detroit; Chris Turner, artist, Detroit
SLIM’S BIKE
Bike; video, appr. 15 min, 2004
The eccentric James Thompson, “Slim”, and his imaginatively designed mobile
bicycle sculpture are an urban legend of Detroit’s Cass Corridor, a dilapidated
district near the university where many students, artists, and intellectuals
live.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Standard Films/Jody Huellmantel, video artist, Detroit, with Mitch Cope, artist,
Detroit, and Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC)
MOVING GRAVESVideo, 18 min, 2003/2004
In Detroit, not only the living but also the dead are leaving the inner city:
Every year, hundreds of the dead are reburied in suburban cemeteries.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Andrew Dosunmu, artist, New YorkHOT IRONSVideo, appr. 45 min, 1999
Hot Irons provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Afro-American hairfashion. Five Detroit hair artists who are preparing for the meanwhile internationally renowned annual com-petition “Hair Wars” explain the uniqueness andsignificance of this hair art.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kelly Parker, filmmaker, Detroit, with Toni Moceri, ethnographer, Detroit
CODA MOTOR CITY
Video, 23:10 min, 2003/2004
In the car manufacturing city Detroit, there is only a vestige of a public
transport system. The 22 percent of all households that own no car are practically immobile, physically and socially trapped.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christopher McNamara, artist, Windsor
MAGIC CITY (WED. SPEC. 2004 REMIX)
Pinball machine and video double projection, 15:30 min, 13:10 min, 2004
This autobiographical installation contrasts footage from Canadian television
coverage of Detroit’s racial unrest in 1967 and images of a slowly rotating lawn
sprinkler in front of the artist’s parents’ one-family house.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stan Douglas, artist, Vancouver
DETROIT PHOTOS
6 photographs, 1997-1999
The Canadian photographer Stan Douglas spent some time in Detroit at the end of the
1990s. The photo series he shot there documents the decay of Detroit’s inner city.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeff Karolski, artist, Detroit
DEVIL’S NIGHT POSTER SERIES
5 posters, 2004
Every year in the nights before Halloween, hundreds of empty buildings have been
set a fire. The wide variety of contradictory explanations and myths of theorigin of this “custom” indicate the heterogeneous motives behind this spectacle.

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MANCHESTER/LIVERPOOL-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christoph Schäfer, artist, Hamburg
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
Wurlitzer „Rave On“ jukebox with 50 audio CDs and photographs, 2004
While Liverpool shrinks, the city manages again and again to capture the imagination of the world. Whole blocks are ruins, but among them are street signs
that everyone knows from song titles. The density of imagination and the absenceof people.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------David Haslam, DJ and writer, Manchester; Aidan O’Rourke, photographer, ­Manchester;
Lee Thompson, music producer, Manchester
TRIBUTE TO THE HAÇIENDA
Installation with photographs and soundtrack, 2004
David Haslam, former DJ of the famous Haçienda, follows the path of individual
pieces of the club, which were auctioned off to fans after the club closed. He
thus makes visible the emotional importance of this music culture and its rolein the development of the city.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tom Wood, artist, Liverpool
Bus Odyssey
7 Photographs, 1978–1998
The project Bus Odyssey, made over the years 1978–1998, explores the city ofLiverpool from the perspective of riding the bus.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------John Davies, photographer, Liverpool
COTTON MILLS AND DURHAM COALFIELDS REVISITED
12 photographs, 1982–2004
In the 1980s, the urban and landscape photographer John Davies took pictures oftextile cities in the environs of Manchester and of the Durham Coalfields. Now
he has taken photos of the exact same spots, thus documenting the spatial consequences of de-industrialization.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------G.L.A.S. (Glasgow Letters on Architecture & Space), co-operative of architects,
teachers, writers and activists, Glasgow
SPACES OF LABOUR
Pile of newspapers, 2003/2004
An extra edition of the newspaper Glaspaper on the changes in the worlds of workand their spatial forms in Liverpool and Glasgow since the beginning of the
post-industrial age.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ken Grant, photographer, Newport/Liverpool
BENNY PROFANE
30 photographs, 1989–1996
Long-term documentation of men, women, and children who have worked at the
Bidston-Moss Garbage Tip on the northern outskirts of Birkenhead (Merseyside),­
recycling or reselling refuse.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeremy Deller, artist
THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE
Video, appr. 60 min, 2001
Deller re-enacted the violent confrontation of police with striking miners in
1984/85 in the mining town of Orgreave, in cooperation with people who had been
involved in the original incident and thus initiated a long overdue debate about
its repercussions and political significance.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////IVANOVO-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sergei Bratkov, photographer, Moscow
BANKA SUPA/A GLASS OF SOUP
Installation with photograph, video projection, 5 min, table and chair, 2004
The photo and video were shot in the district of the city of Ivanovo. The titleof the work alludes to a key work of Pop Art, Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup” –in the transcription of the situation in Russia today, a sign of poverty.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elena Samorodova, photographer and architect, Moscow; Vera Samorodova, photographer and architect, Moscow
COLLAGE VENUES
Series photographs, 2003
The photo series shows transgressions of the traditional spatial and aesthetic
order caused by new everyday practices that people have developed under conditions of economic insecurity and urban shrinking.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elena Samorodova, photographer and architect, Moscow; Vera Samorodova, photographer
and architect, Moscow
FACTORY PUCHEZH – “THREADY/GONE“
Series of 8 photographs, 2003
The photo project documents the current situation of a mostly shutdown textile
factory in the small city of Puchezh in the Ivanovo region: stopped machines,
still existing and new jobs in the factory, portraits of the workers.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Vladimir Archipov, artist, Moscow
VYNUZHDENNIE VESHCHI IVANOVSKOI GUBERNII / BORN OUT OF NECESSITY – UTILITY­OBJECTS FROM THE IVANOVO REGION
13 objects; register cards with quotes from interviews, 2003/2004
In the Ivanovo region, the artist collected objects of daily use created byresidents to solve one or the other everyday problem.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ines Lasch, journalist, Hamburg; Alexei Kononenko, architect, Moscow; Vera Samorodova,
photographer and architect, Moscow
OBSHCHEZHITIE 3/WORKERS’ HOME NO. 3
Slide show and sound recordings from interview, appr. 30 min; model, 2003/2004
Photos and quotations from 16 interviews with residents of a dormitory with atypical Soviet floorplan show the external and social changes in life from 1974
to 2003.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bas Princen, designer and photographer, Rotterdam
AFTER PLANNING #3
4 photographs, 2003/2004
A photo expedition to “failed” urban paradigms of the second half of the 20th
century. Ivanovo is the study’s third case, after Belgrade and Tirana.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alexander Sverdlov, architect, Rotterdam/Moscow; Sergei Sitar, architect andpublicist, Moscow
YUZHA – GREEN CITY
Beamer projection, 2003/2004
In an urbanologistic study, the current transformation of the urban space of thesmall city of Yuzha in the Ivanovo region is captured and formalized – as thepossible basis for a new model of the city.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sergei Miturich, graphic designer, Moscow/Yuzha; Savva Miturich, graphic designer,
Moscow/Yuzha; Alexander Sverdlov, architect, Rotterdam/Moscow; Boris Spiridonov,artist and graphic designer, Moscow
SURVIVAL MANUAL
Unfolded booklet, 10 pages, 2003/2004
A collection of practices and everyday know-how with which the people of theregion earn (additional) income after the disintegration of the industrial
employment system.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
Exhibition 2 – Interventions
List of contributions--------------------------------------------------------------------------------////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
OCCUPYING SPACE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stefanie Bremer, urban planner, Dortmund/Essen; Dirk E. Haas, geographer andurban planner, Essen; Päivi Kataikko, architect, Essen; Henrik Sander, urban
planner, Dortmund/Hamburg; Andreas Schulze Bäing, spatial planner, Liverpool;
Boris Sieverts, artist and tour guide, Cologne, with Bas Princen, photographer,
Rotterdam/Los Angeles
Claiming Land
Photograph; brochure, 2004/2005
Claiming Land formulates a scenario for the cultivation of areas of disused landthat have fallen out of the context of the traditional city, its repertoire ofimages and its value system. An urban experiment anticipates the allocation ofsuch undetermined land.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christoph Schäfer, artist, Hamburg, with Deborah Schamoni, camera operator,
BerlinHoang’s Bistro
Installation with video, 15min, 2005
A dance video shows dancers performing a fertility dance intended to attract
people to Leipzig. It also documents the parallel economies created along theperiphery of the city by migrants living in Leipzig.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kath Healy, retired civil servant, Liverpool
CONVERSATIONS – THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF LIVERPOOL LIFE
Video, appr. 30 min, 2004
The video by Kath Healy, an older resident of the high-rise in which the project
Further up in the Air was carried out, documents the remaining tenants’ stancetoward their approaching move to newly-built bungalows.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leo Fitzmaurice, artist, Liverpool; Neville Gabie, artist, Stroud
MIGRANT OFFICE
Installation, 1999–2004
In the project Further up in the Air, artists were invited to live and work in
an apartment building in Liverpool that had been condemned and that was alreadypartially untenanted. The coordination office is reconstructed in the exhibition
as a project archive.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cedric Price, edited by project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin
Potteries Thinkbelt
Prints, 1963-1966
Cedric Price radically reinterpreted the infrastructure of the de-industrialized
region of North Staffordshire (GB) and proposed a new model for the former
industrial railway network and three regional stations located at intersections.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------complizen Planungsbüro/Andreas Haase, architect, Halle, and Tore Dobberstein,architect, Hallesportification
Installation with video, 18 min, since 2003
With its serial project, sportification complizen Planungsbüro brings life into
vacant buildings, large housing estates and disused land or sites by organizing
sporting events in competition categories of their own invention.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Gitte Villesen, artist, Copenhagen/Berlin
Bikeshopstory
Installation with 3 video projections and 2 collages, 2000
The concentration of this video project is on the people who use a building in
S. Blackstone Avenue, 6100, Chicago, owned by Dan Peterman, above all on theBlackstone Bicycle Works. In 2001, the building burned to the ground.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////ORGANIZING RETREAT-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Superstudio, edited by project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin
CONTINUOUS CONVEYER BELT CITY
Prints, 1972
The “Continuous Conveyer Belt City”, one of the Twelve Ideal Cities from Superstudio, reproduces itself in a constant process of growth and decay.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Markus Bader, performing architect, Berlin; and Jan Liesegang, architect, Berlin,with Anne-Claire Deville, student, Berlin
Stadtfresser/City devorer
2 vibrating plots; audio loop, 3:30 min, 2005
The machine of the future, the ‘Town Eater’, turns the uneconomic city into an
economically oriented city. The robot sucks in existing urban material, dismantles and reorganises its components and uses them to construct, or ‘plot’, acity modelled exclusively to the needs of the real estate market.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Charles Waldheim and Marili Santos-Munné, edited by project office Philipp
Oswalt, Berlin­
decamping detroit
Prints, 1995/1996
Taking the city’s proposal for the abandonment of the least viable lands at facevalue, Decamping Detroit describes a series of scenarios by which Detroit would
be decamped. Based on the Detroit Vacant Land Survey, the project identifies
seven bounded territories within the city surveyed as over 70% vacant land andproposes scenarios by which they might be reconstituted.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jörg Dettmar, landscape planner, Darmstadt; EmscherPark International Building
Exhibition; Latz +Partner, landscape architects, Kranzberg
Industrial Forests
5 photographs; map and manual, 1995-2000
Due to the lack of demand, new architectural developments are out of the question
for the majority of disused lots in shrinking cities. The projects Industriewald
Ruhrgebiet (Industrial Forest Ruhrgebiet) and the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
propose alternative concepts of forestation and extensive forms of development
and utilization.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oswald Mathias Ungers, edited by project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin
DAS GRÜNE STADTARCHIPEL/THE GREEN URBAN ARCHIPELAGO
Prints, 1977
In the 1970s former West Berlin was a shrinking city, characterized by fragmented
architecture, empty plots and a declining population. The Grüne Stadtarchipel(green urban archipelago), created in 1977 by the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers,
attempted to deduce a creative urban principle from the problems ensuing fromshrinking processes.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////NEGOTIATING INEQUALITY-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pierre Huyghe, artist, Paris/New York
Mediterranean Structures
2 photographs; text, 1993
Cities and architecture are subject to a constant process of growth and shrinking, of construction and decline. Pierre Huyghe investigated the unfinishedconcrete skeleton houses that one typically finds in Mediterranean areas. The
inhabitants continue to build these houses over decades, constantly adapting
them to the changing demands of their lives and work.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------fiedler.tornquist/Johannes Fiedler, architect, and Jördis Tornquist, architect,
Graz
EXTERRITORIES
Discussion forum; installation; video, 25 min, 2004/2005“Exterritories” discusses a fictive exterritorial special economic zone in theregion of Halle an der Saale. A public discussion round with experts examined
the opportunities and risks of a Chinese zone in eastern Germany.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------CUP, Center for Urban Pedagogy/Damon Rich, designer, and Rosten Woo, politicalscientist, New York; Interboro/Tobias Armborst, urban planner, Daniel D’Oca,
urban planner, and Georgeen Theodore, urban planner, New York
However Unspectacular: The New Suburbanism/Detroit Do Your Thing!
Installation with 2 slide shows on monitors, 2004/2005
On the one hand, the authors studied how residents of Detroit suburbanize theinner city through individual appropriations. On the other, they developed
teaching materials to create an awareness of Detroit’s specific problems andthus open up long-term possibilities for influence.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------AMO, edited by project office Philipp Oswalt, Berlin®UR/Hollocore
Prints, 2002
Hollocore is one of the most densely populated regions on earth and yet has onlya slight urban density and no real center. Its countless centers are simultaneously peripheries. The basic idea behind this concept is that urban development
can today only be considered and actualized from a regional perspective and thatthe borders of local administrations and authorities must be transcended.

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CREATING IMAGES-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paul Cotter, filmmaker, London; Gareth Morris, architect, London; Heidi Rustgaard,
choreographer, London; Eike Sindlinger, architect, London; Ulrike Steven, architect,London; Susanne Thomas, choreographer, London
COW – the udder way
Performance in Liverpool; wallpaper; video, 5 min, 2004/2005
A one-week performance with cows in an innercity residential district ofLiverpool encouraged discussion of the possibilities of unconventional use­
concepts and individual action in unutilised areas.
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Architectural Flagship Developments
Prints, diverse dates
There seems to be a strong need in shrinking cities for iconic architecturethat gives them a new image, and architects that tend towards eccentric designs
receive commissions from these cities.
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City Marketing for Shrinking Cities
Poster reprint; showcase with books and brochures from different marketing
campaigns, diverse dates­
To survive in the competitive global market, cities are compelled to place themselves as a product, to create an image and to market it. This transfer ofadvertising techniques from the free market economy to cities originated in the­
USA and has become widespread in Europe since the 1980s.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jon Brumit, artist, Oakland, California
Pioneers
Audio driving tour, 2007
"Pioneers" is a radio-based audio driving tour of selected areas within Detroit
and its suburbs. A series of small FM transmitters are set up in clusters aroundtown to create a kind of 'drive through audio collage' of numerous mini "radio
programs", made collaboratively with locals and residents. The stories are broad­
cast continually and feature stories of cottage industry, perseverance, adaptability.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////SELF-GOVERNANCE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Gina Reichert, architect, Detroit
ARCHIVE OF LOCAL INITIATIVES
Archive, 2006
The archive documents the impressive diversity of local initiatives in Detroit,for example social initiatives, cultural projects, organizations of small
businesses, musical networks, early retirement associations, neighborhood­
initiatives, construction coops, and others.
­-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Isa Rosenberger, artist, Vienna
Ein Denkmal für das Frauenzentrum/A Monument for the Women’s Center
Installation with video projection, 20min, 2004/2005
Together with former working women, Isa Rosenberger designed and created a flagmonument for the Wolfen women’s center. A video documents the path from the research
to the implementation of the monument and the reactions of local decision-makers.

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DETROIT INDUSTRIES – URBAN AGRICULTURE
Photo documentation, 2003/2004
In Detroit there are attempts at self-organized community projects that use thevast empty surface of the inner city for agriculture and horticulture.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Superflex, artists-group, Copenhagen, with FACT/Sean Treadway, Liverpool
tenantspin (SUPERCHANNEL)
Installation with video, since 2001
Superchannel is a communication tool for social self-empowerment. It enables
individuals to set up their own TV channel and broadcast their own program in
the Internet.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mitch Cope, artist, Detroit; Ingo Vetter, artist, Umeå/Sweden; Annette Weisser,
artist, Los Angeles
Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop
Installation with milled “Tree of Heaven” wood, recycled commercial signs, bench
prototype, since 2005
The "Tree of Heaven" or more colloquial "Ghettopalm" is a weed tree commonly
found on abandoned lots or former factory sites. It could be seen as an indicatorof decay and neglect. Instead the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop, founded in2005 proposes to make use of this unique resource to develop specific products
in cooperation with local specialist, institutions and initiatives. For the
newly opened MOCAD the proposal is a museum bench.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aeron Bergman, artist, Barcelona and Sweden; Alejandra Salinas, artist, Barcelona
and Sweden
Introduction to Wildflowers
Video with 3 interviews, appr. 7 min, 2007
Since the local and federal government has failed Detroit so spectacularly,
every miniscule change over the past 40 years has happened on an individuallevel. In Introduction to Wildflowers Detroiters introduce some exemplary”grassroots" projects which seem to share a similar creative and naïve optimism
as artmaking.
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Walter Prigge, sociologist, Dessau; with Elke Beyer, historian, Berlin/ZurichIntervention Posters
Series of 5 posters/poster campaign, 2005/2007
Intervention posters are a poster series with 5 motifs for a campaign in urban
space. The slogans of the posters refer to the five thematic groups of theexhibition Shrinking Cities: Interventions: Occupying Space, Organizing Retreat,
Negotiating Inequality, Creating Images, and Self-Governance.
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