REALTY

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.



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Contents

Preface - Tirdad Zolghadr

Provisional Global Snapshots - Tirdad Zolghadr

Capitalizing Antigentrification - Suhail Malik

Financializing the Development of Urban Neighborhoods: Thoughts on the Relationship between Art and Gentrification - Laura Calbet Elias

The Community Land Trust: A Model for Berlin's New Stadtbodenstiftung - Sabine Horlitz

The Land: From Pastoral Idyll to Sacrifice Zone - Marco Clausen

A Landscape Study - Katya Sander

Pigeon Towers and Donkey Paths - Marion von Osten

Was ist das Land? - Marion von Osten

What Is Land? - Marion von Osten

To "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 Hain

Rural Urbanization: Commodification of Land in Post-Oslo Palestine - Khaldun Bshara

Who's Afraid of Ideology? - Marwa Arsanios

Land Reform: Utopia and Infrastructure: Historical Planning and Current Developments in Rural Brandenburg - Maria Hetzer

The Red City of the Planet of Capitalism - Bahar Noorizadeh

Redistributing Risk: Tuleva as a Case Study - Kristel Raesaar

A Speculative White Paper on the Aesthetics of a Black Swan World - Penny Rafferty

terra0: An Introduction - By Paul Seidler

Speculative and Practical Responses to Problems Bemoaned in the Provisional Global Snapshots - Tirdad Zolghadr

Biographies