Group Exhibition
HABITAT
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
24.4.2012 - 3.5.2012
It will close tomorrow, at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, the show Habitat by RamStudios in collaboration with Ubiq, GothamTV and Linke. The exhibition featured photos, video, installations, maps and texts by Mirko Cecchi, Anthropolis, Simone Donati, Francesca Catastini, Giuseppe Fanizza, Alessandro Imbriaco, Collettivo Orizzontale, Michela Battaglia, Andrea Kunkl, Michela Frontino, Fabrizio Vatieri and Nuvola Ravera.
«Habitat is a research project about “alternative” housing. The object of Habitat is to build a collection of works by photographers, artists and researchers dealing with the refusal of the urban housing standard. Anarchism, agricultural communes, social housings, self-sufficient villages, experimental residential systems, spiritual communities, collectivization, land-sharing, urban nomadism…
Communities, either built upon fair living ideas or created to get out of an emergency status, are the living example of a conscious choice opposing the urban status quo and the Property/House/Family Trinity. The choice as a “principle” and the western society as a “cause” represent a dichotomy we find in all the works included in Habitat.
Habitat aims its attention to the housing problem and to the individual and collective solutions; Habitat investigates the ideas under the different communities that share the refusal of the “society” taking into consideration the different points of view, ideologies, and backgrounds. The objective of the collective work of Habitat is to stimulate the audience to free reflections and interpretations over such a complex and broad topic.
Habitat is a permanent and open online archive. We invite the authors working on housing issues to submit their works to Habitat, whatever medium they use for their research (photography, essays, video, installations, public actions, performance, etc.)».
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