tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38559312550474196922024-03-18T11:13:48.550-04:00Detroit UnReal Estate AgencyFemke Lutgerinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115598188860751072noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-786687323756817652011-01-23T11:49:00.006-05:002011-01-23T12:01:33.896-05:00Detroitism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.guernicamag.com/Marchandmeffre-575.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://www.guernicamag.com/Marchandmeffre-575.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">An </span><a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/2281/leary_1_15_11/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">excellent piece</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in </span><a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Guernica</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on ruin porn, Detroitsploitation and three classic Detroit narratives: Detroit as metonym, the Detroit lament, and Detroit utopia.</span>Mireillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17495048175833703738noreply@blogger.com207tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-44201028490041521562010-11-19T06:23:00.003-05:002010-11-19T06:27:28.646-05:00Roof Work<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkORbLPAmgafz0lA1tVHeB9cI_j3tz-pC_HhFYiPSrD4b55HZOKgOUL8ebgb-FShTAVHTRh1-p3axSDnAK5eBF44OJ5alCrjMx45sh0aiT6sb31Q9xfWwVTSUoi01Z8UGeopv1e8yhxtk/s1600/image011.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkORbLPAmgafz0lA1tVHeB9cI_j3tz-pC_HhFYiPSrD4b55HZOKgOUL8ebgb-FShTAVHTRh1-p3axSDnAK5eBF44OJ5alCrjMx45sh0aiT6sb31Q9xfWwVTSUoi01Z8UGeopv1e8yhxtk/s400/image011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541220103406922290" /></a><br />1.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.2012architecten.nl/">2012</a>'s Erik Jutten is working with <a href="http://www.visitdesign99.com/">Design 99</a>'s Mitch and Gina on the Power House roof extension<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6DMzHfWjshvtpkPkYhWSHmbDyxraCjKQc-_6FIOE765uc5nV-fMKMivRUxA84k2kaHS5EiFT5BxAdzeH0PVnrXbi943jYlnaiXARKOYqu05saQMyxPi88NPPi_IdvMqPK14T-zTs4OKg/s1600/image009.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6DMzHfWjshvtpkPkYhWSHmbDyxraCjKQc-_6FIOE765uc5nV-fMKMivRUxA84k2kaHS5EiFT5BxAdzeH0PVnrXbi943jYlnaiXARKOYqu05saQMyxPi88NPPi_IdvMqPK14T-zTs4OKg/s400/image009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541220207182061682" /></a><br />2.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI_MGUUL9p_DtotHvFgIhzuN-ddqyxRqswusxAKr17shvBTWIph8KtBpKL0J57xTBzvwdoBlrAkRKMfWqxrZ-KBC4-XwinjP8qsQwtT0lNvLz4NLoRP8SmWz-8JKNkjGDD5dwOvGrLwXs/s1600/image002.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI_MGUUL9p_DtotHvFgIhzuN-ddqyxRqswusxAKr17shvBTWIph8KtBpKL0J57xTBzvwdoBlrAkRKMfWqxrZ-KBC4-XwinjP8qsQwtT0lNvLz4NLoRP8SmWz-8JKNkjGDD5dwOvGrLwXs/s400/image002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541220465144620834" /></a><br />3.Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-87366958549382413162010-11-11T08:17:00.003-05:002010-11-11T08:25:46.900-05:002012 redesigns Power House roof<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtEwyb-nwiVajCoXlSlsO8anohKuEtIpLeegKollFzkq-k1KfqJWa2_ipGRXORYQ01gGGtgMCSyBi7YFDdKlkokQZ9e8DPxcM0uxFoVsSL5oAWPfrsm3RMB7-7iKa0XuE__C2aVb4PrE/s1600/powerplan_100913-3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtEwyb-nwiVajCoXlSlsO8anohKuEtIpLeegKollFzkq-k1KfqJWa2_ipGRXORYQ01gGGtgMCSyBi7YFDdKlkokQZ9e8DPxcM0uxFoVsSL5oAWPfrsm3RMB7-7iKa0XuE__C2aVb4PrE/s400/powerplan_100913-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538281023600133042" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.2012architecten.nl/">2012 architects</a> redesigned in collaboration with <a href="http://www.visitdesign99.com/">Design 99</a> the roof of the <a href="http://www.powerhouseproject.com/">Power House</a>. <br /><br />2012 has been in the first resident in the residency pilot-project, which <a href="http://www.partizanpublik.nl/">Partizan Publik</a> is curating in collaboration with Design 99 and is supported financially by <a href="http://www.fondsbkvb.nl/">Fund BKVB</a>. <br /><br />Currently Erik Jutten is working on behalf of 2012 on the reconstruction of the roof with Mitch Cope en Gina Reichert. Early 2011 designer <a href="http://www.buromarsille.com/">Guido Marsille</a> will take over Erik's position.Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com67tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-54107304519148923752010-05-25T10:53:00.002-04:002010-05-25T10:56:56.728-04:00Too Much of a Good Thing<span style="font-weight:bold;">OPENING THIS THURSDAY</span><br />(that's right, Thursday)<br />May 27th at MOCAD<br />Public opening 8 – 11PM, $6<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgak4jaUL5-MFRVokFyJmvn8cf7i45tAMmRlbsIq9K9oJJuXNhcu14zCCuWqJitxjeaslucajP61MJ0Ro2fFtipnKr7bMVzaoRxIo34P0bNbggTQvuuXbjAHps2NJUIi7HX5pvbyk5V4Vk/s1600/hoodcat_camo.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgak4jaUL5-MFRVokFyJmvn8cf7i45tAMmRlbsIq9K9oJJuXNhcu14zCCuWqJitxjeaslucajP61MJ0Ro2fFtipnKr7bMVzaoRxIo34P0bNbggTQvuuXbjAHps2NJUIi7HX5pvbyk5V4Vk/s400/hoodcat_camo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475221547945673026" /></a><br /><br />FEATURING<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Neighborhood Machine</span><br />A mobile device that roams and wonders one Detroit neighborhood in search of evidence of what is believed to be a vast reservoir of spiritual, physical and emotional wealth waiting to be found in the back alleys, dark side streets, and abandoned backyards of the neighborhood. <br />The Machine will be capable of physically altering in major ways the landscape and built environment in order to find these resources. It will also act as a communicator and distributor of information, collecting never before seen images and video of these mysterious resources. While roaming the machine lays tracks that can be followed by others for reconstruction and reorganization in order to bring in the future neighborhood.<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.visitdesign99.com/">Design 99</a>’s work explores the edges of art practice, utilizing, design, architecture, found materials and utilitarian objects to propose creative solutions to complex problems. Their practice has at its core the belief that transformation can happen in a natural way, if we only take a look, think out-of-the-box and take action."<br /><br />Too Much of a Good Thing is organized by the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit </span>and curated by Luis Croquer, Director and Chief Curator.<br />Show runs through July 25th<br />Museum hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11 – 5PM, – 8PM on Thursday & Friday<br />MOCAD is located at 4454 Woodward Ave, 3 blocks south of Warren, in DetroitChristian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-75084028976220896612010-05-18T21:16:00.003-04:002010-05-25T10:58:11.508-04:00Whose Banksy is it?I've strolled through and around the former Packard Plant for several years. Met scrap traders and trash dumpers, explorers, tourists, gangs of people, gangs of dogs, seen great painted walls and lots of semi-poetic urban scrawls ("What happened to the American Dream? is the one I see by the Grand Boulevard side.) The former plant is close to a mile long--it's easy not to see everything. But keen eyes spotted a wall painting by elusive street artist Banksy--and took it (the movers are part of Detroit gallery/collective 555.) This is either in the great Detroit scrap tradition (finders keepers even if it is on private property) or its a chapter for city lore. <br /><br />Here are some questions this (re)moval is provoking for me: What is street art removed from the street? Can you move it like a painting on a wall without changing the meaning of the work or the act? Is the move its own act?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20100515/ENT05/100514077/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-leaves-mark-on-Detroit-and-ignites-firestorm">Detroit Free Press on Banksy's move</a>Nick Tobierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08823335335313538157noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-88578426150059752902010-04-30T09:33:00.004-04:002010-05-25T10:57:53.670-04:00Dateline Detroit<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/211345540/vp/36601203#36789689">Dateline Detroit</a><br /><br />Last week, NBC broadcast an episode of its Dateline news program on Detroit. The primary focus is familiar--the vulnerable, poor yet resilient African American residents of a crumbling city with a sprinkling of artists and celebrities. <br /><br />Dateline host Chris Hansen speaks with and profiles, among others, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, Kid Rock and Raccoon Man, Glemmie Beasley, a blues musician who shoots and eats raccoon around the city for sale and nutritional value. The local and national response is that Detroit, like Baltimore and other African American inner cities is thick in media sensations like Raccoon Man and that in an hour long special, a broader view is not only possible, but a responsibility. <br /><br />Some local news responses to the special:<br /><a href="http://detnews.com/article/20100420/METRO01/4200343/-Dateline--Detroit-profile-sparks-backlash">Detroit News on Dateline</a>Nick Tobierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08823335335313538157noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-36683603140924998562010-03-13T11:19:00.004-05:002010-03-14T05:35:14.424-04:00Detroit Mayor Bing's Plans to Downsize the CityWhen the Shrinking Cities show opened at MOCAD a few years back, there was a great creative/academic series of responses to the propositions the projects posed. Last week, a larger debate was fueled by remarks made by Detroit Mayor Dave Bing that acknowledges the challenges posed by shrinking population and the costs of maintaining infrastructure and services. <br /> <br />"We're not going in and just taking people's property and saying you don't have any say," Bing said. "Those people that we can encourage and that they would agree to be moved, those are the ones that we are going to work with first."<br /><br />Last week I read this to a group of 12 year olds near Downtown. The first pause was that several of them did not know who Dave Bing was. The second pause came when they realized that the areas he was talking about are where their homes are.<br /><br />Some excerpts from the article I read them from The Detroit News. on March 9:<br /><br /> The most viable neighborhoods, with the fewest vacant lots, are on the fringes, near the suburbs. The ones with the most abandoned houses and vacancies are closest to downtown.<br /><br /> "We have a downtown core and then we clearly have an outer ring," said Douglass Diggs, interim executive director of the recently formed Detroit Land Bank, a primary agency in the city's downsizing push. "The question is how do you link those two?<br /><br /> "Looking at the maps it seems like the real challenge is what to do with the middle part."<br /><br />Some of the uses for the middle part, the neighborhoods like the former Paradise Valley, include farmland. "What?!!" asked the kids in my group. "First of all, we don't grow vegetables.<br /><br /><a href="http://detnews.com/article/20100309/METRO01/3090379/Detroit-s-desolate-middle-makes-downsizing-tough">link to The Detroit News article</a><br /><br />March 23 Mayor Bing makes his State of the City address--watch for updates,Nick Tobierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08823335335313538157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-24778382717495504902010-03-12T13:49:00.004-05:002010-03-12T14:17:59.682-05:00Toothless and IncoherentMore <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/10/detroit-motor-city-urban-decline">Detroit in the Guardian</a> (you'd think there wasn't enough urban misery happening this side of the Atlantic). This time it's a plug for Julian Temple's new documentary <a href="http://www.filmsofrecord.com/content.php?id=138">Requiem for Detroit</a> of which I saw a work-in-progress version at the IDFA end of last year. What I saw then annoyed me... for a start there was an overabundance of white men talking, and the first black face on the screen was toothless and incoherent - and this is in a city where officially over 80% of the inhabitants are African American - and the rest of the film continued to designate the job of telling the story of the city to the white minority, though Tyree Gruyton gets to say something and Grace Lee Boggs put in an eloquent appearance near the end of the film. What was also interesting was the way in which - other than the Ford manager - every single white person is filmed in their cars, a kind of cinematic white exodus of the city, whereas all the African Americans were, without exception, intransient, 'left behind' - which I thought was a rather clever device but on talking to the producer after the screening I got the impression that this wasn't a deliberate (di)vision. I also found the music in the section on the riots rather disturbing - 'Dancin' in the Streets' may well have been the anthem of the rioters and would have been fine accompaniment to a bit of burning and stone throwing, but it seemed to me inappropriate to run it whilst the bloodied bodies of protesters were being carried off - came across more like Dancin' on their Graves...<br />The film's showing on BBC-2 tomorrow evening at 22u (Dutch time) and I'm curious to see if anything got done with my criticism of the underlying racism in the way the population was being portrayed.Jimini Hignetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476005481329007096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-38924813359147042010-03-09T08:58:00.004-05:002010-03-14T05:33:50.157-04:00FWD: Detroit wants to save itself by ShrinkingSome quotes from the AP piece, published on Yahoo News March 8 2010:<br /><br />"Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile."<br /><br />"Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green."<br /><br />"Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, is expected to unveil some details in his state-of-the-city address this month."<br /><br />read more <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100308/ap_on_bi_ge/us_downsizing_detroit">here</a>Edwin Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143526038088346151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-53898629773759447182010-03-03T03:05:00.005-05:002010-03-03T03:08:25.368-05:00Jon Brumit in the GuardianArticle in today's Guardian with our friend Jon Brumit - all old news, but I'm surprised to hear that only one in five houses is empty, I thought it only one in five lived in...<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/02/detroit-homes-mortgage-foreclosures-80">Click here for the article.</a>Jimini Hignetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476005481329007096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-21255256604252996522010-02-25T01:33:00.007-05:002010-02-26T09:51:52.878-05:00ReadyMade's Hands Up For Detroit<a href="http://www.readymade.com/blogs/readymade/author/awagner/">ReadyMade Magazine</a> visited Detroit and published a photo series of the works of artists <a href="http://howtogoon.com/">Jimini Hignett</a>, <a href="http://www.tyreeguyton.com/">Tyree Guyton</a>, <a href="http://www.visitdesign99.com/">Mitch Cope & Gina Reichert</a> and <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/icehousedetroit">Gregory Holm & Matthew Radune</a> on its blog. The commentary on the trip starts with a comparison of these works and French high-wire artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit">Philippe Petit</a> walk between the unfinished twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York in 1974.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbxTrXdcFFUa99G7uEsHWf_YS9mn73cBGziC9AppFx_wWaNrKaEjBiLBrwAe41IaLyGB9dHq-Kc0CJ_a1anT-3tBd3yoErqZ1SBBum2wJcxAzBrMsr9XEulyheRdEKtW6CbEq3pLhrKU/s1600-h/petit3a1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 361px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbxTrXdcFFUa99G7uEsHWf_YS9mn73cBGziC9AppFx_wWaNrKaEjBiLBrwAe41IaLyGB9dHq-Kc0CJ_a1anT-3tBd3yoErqZ1SBBum2wJcxAzBrMsr9XEulyheRdEKtW6CbEq3pLhrKU/s400/petit3a1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442083170677836610" /></a><br />[Image taken from ReadyMade blog]<br /><br />The writer of the blog post - ReadyMade editor-in-chief Andrew Wagner - comments: 'Obviously it was an incredible physical undertaking and an adventure unlike any other. More than that though, I was taken with the fact that Petit took this amazing risk for seemingly no other reason other than to see if it could be done. To see what is possible. To see what would happen. Much like Petit’s walk atop New York, the city of Detroit sparks similar emotions in me.'<br /><br />Wagners proves himself a Detroit optimist as he ends his story saying: 'I believe the next few years will see a true renewal in the city. And not in any contrived, idealistic, New Urbanist manner, but rather in a real, meaningful way that will help guide cities of all shapes and sizes in the years to come.'<br /><br />ReadyMade is inspired by Detroit and its many opportunities to open up windows for different kinds of urban development, which is great. From my own perspective, that of European out-of-towner, I tend to believe that the more people write and think enthusiastic about Detroit the greater the chance that good things might happen to the city. <br /><br />Yet, Wagner’s interesting comparison between the work by Petit in New York in 1974 and the four very different contemporary projects in Detroit inspired me to raise a few question concerning the role of these types of art projects in the post-industrial place as Detroit.<br /><br />Who is performing what and to which audience? What is the public? What is the community of these projects?<br /><br />I could be wrong but I have the impression there are important distinctions between the works Wagner encountered during his city tour. Although they might altogether – edited in a photo series like the one on the ReadyMade blog – add to an optimistic imagery of Detroit, the differences of these projects in terms of production process or in regards of the audiences the artists intended to perform for might be a factor in determining the type of renewal that Detroit will see.Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-43563400059576273222010-02-02T17:47:00.003-05:002010-02-02T17:57:57.647-05:00Reboot DetroitLast Monday on Dutch (VPRO) television bro "Doorstart Detroit" (reboot detroit) was broadcasted. About the shared faith of GM an Detroit, and if the crisis will lead to new insights or not. Watch it full below, (All in English, Dutch Subtitles)<br /><br /><object data='data:application/x-silverlight-2,' type='application/x-silverlight-2' width='384' height='216'><param name='source' value='http://u.omroep.nl/sle/ClientBin/ugslplayer.xap'/><param name='initParams' value='width=384,episodeID=10599321'/><a href='http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=124807' style='text-decoration: none;'><img src='http://u.omroep.nl/sle/pics/downloadsilverlight.jpg' alt='Get Microsoft Silverlight' style='border-style: none'/></a></object>Edwin Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143526038088346151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-16368517338903765142010-01-11T14:29:00.003-05:002010-01-11T14:33:14.735-05:00How money travels in Detroit<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiGKsoru3orVZxpFNJJzValxB9WseeRngabEudmP0vrE8Z2GwZDM6z08TQipnFkxkQKEKw1Piwtz4yV0l2-C-NCuJH5nKGVVyY-2QybxzluBIi0AHxJAz2ekmCHMdexzol9tWuyY-3SnI/s1600-h/tumblr_kvwvje48An1qzpt5vo1_r1_500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiGKsoru3orVZxpFNJJzValxB9WseeRngabEudmP0vrE8Z2GwZDM6z08TQipnFkxkQKEKw1Piwtz4yV0l2-C-NCuJH5nKGVVyY-2QybxzluBIi0AHxJAz2ekmCHMdexzol9tWuyY-3SnI/s400/tumblr_kvwvje48An1qzpt5vo1_r1_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425567127074874338" border="0" /></a>via <a href="http://aggregat456.tumblr.com/">a456</a>Edwin Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143526038088346151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-15657573999201749502010-01-11T09:11:00.002-05:002010-01-11T09:22:39.495-05:00Detroit EntrpreneursThe front section of the New York Times featured two extensive articles on midtown Detroit--one on several small creative enterprises, the other on TechTown, the Wayne State sponsored incubator. <br /><br />Most of the businesses in the first--Leopold's Books, Good Girls Go to Paris, The Bureau of Urban Living and the excellent Burton Theatre are all within walking (!) distance of one another. <a href="http://www.leopoldsbooks.com"> Leopold's </a> specializes in graphic novels, <a href="http://www.goooggirlsgotopariscrepes.com"> Good Girls </a>has a great, diverse bustling vibe, and <a href="http://www.burtontheatre.com"> The Burton </a> shows great off beat films.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/10startup.html?scp=1&sq=detroitentreprenuers & st=cse"> To read more on the entrepreneurs </a>Nick Tobierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08823335335313538157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-15692377788823524022010-01-03T12:47:00.003-05:002010-01-03T13:03:09.862-05:00FORTUNE: Can Farming Save Detroit?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit.fortune/urban_agriculture.top.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 475px; height: 313px;" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit.fortune/urban_agriculture.top.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">And yet Hantz is fully aware of the potentially historic scope of what he is proposing. After all, he's talking about accumulating hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of acres inside a major American city. And it's clear that he views Hantz Farms as his legacy. Already he's told his 21-year-old daughter, Lauren, his only heir, that if she wants to own the land one day, she has to promise him she'll never sell it. "This is like buying a penthouse in New York in 1940," Hantz says. "No one should be able to afford to do this ever again."</span></span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit.fortune/index.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">cap-cap-capital...</span></span></a></span></div>Mireillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17495048175833703738noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-82611955895228598332009-12-23T10:15:00.002-05:002010-01-11T06:24:01.843-05:00Guided by Anger and Hope<span style="font-weight:bold;">Christian Ernsten talks with Charles Esche<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Charles Esche is a leading intellectual in the contemporary scene of curators and museum people. His provoking work as the director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, as well as a curator of the Istanbul Biennale, addresses social concerns with a similar immediacy. His collaborations with artists focuses on enhancing some form of progressive change. Although the type of change he wishes to promote was not always obvious to me, I feel Esche is a guiding figure with an ideological agenda, a pioneer in artistic innovation. My interest in talking to him grew after reading his series of comments on Facebook and Skype, inserting his ideas in the current day ‘eculture’. We began the conversation, which took place in the Van Abbemuseum, addressing a quote from his skype account, ‘Thinking about anger and hope as the driving forces of change’.</span><br /><br />Charles Esche: [laughs] Maybe it’s best to start with its source. The quote is from Tony Benn, a British politician, who for me was very fundamental. It’s actually taken from a video clip, and in extension says, ‘The world is changed, through anger at injustice and hope for something better’. It is through bringing together those paradoxical emotions that drive the wheel of possible progressive change. Anger drives the wheel of regressive change, and hope drives the wheel of utopian speculation – neither of which achieves anything on their own. Both are needed in order to start the motor of possibility working in the world. For me, it’s important to be angry at certain things. I think my anger extends from the micro-level– with the cynicism of many Dutch cultural people, for example – to the macro-level – towards the transparent injustices of the world that are produced by the globalisation we are meant to celebrate. The fact that we basically exported the 19th Century system of working class exploitation to other countries and we don’t connect our comfortable conditions here with that exploitation does make me angry. In the 19th Century people had to fight together against injustice and many rights were achieved, but now – due to globalization – we have to do it all over again on a global scale. Our current economic system seems to me mostly a backward step to the 19th century and I wish we could simply say: ‘Hey look! We‘ve done this before, and seen what it results in, so we know it doesn’t work!’ Lets’s just stop and think what we want.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Indeed Esche portrays himself as a man in the field of arts with a strong sense of mission. How is his work influenced by anger and hope?</span><br /><br />Esche: I think on one level, it profoundly influences the choice of artists and subjects I am interested in. The artists I work with are often engaged with the paradoxes of the contemporary world. They have stories to tell that relate the way the media presents this globalized condition we experience on an everyday level. They attempt to take some aspects of the constant array of information that bombards us and which is incredibly difficult to filter, and they magnify it, slow it or capture it so we can reflect on it for a moment longer. I think we are overwhelmed by information at some quite deep level, our psychology isn’t prepared for it. Particularly my generation – but also the younger generation – still struggles to understand how to filter things out and art is one of the filtration systems that could be very important. In that sense, I have hope that we can learn new ways of seeing through art. <br /><br />My personal anger and hope can be seen in exhibition projects like Forms of Resistance or Becoming Dutch, but it also focuses in the way that, for instance, the condition of post-1989 Western Europe is not addressed in terms of history and how we want to develop – it evokes a sense of complacency about our rights. You get this idea that our condition is about survival, simply carrying on, and maintaining the system around us. The hope is that we’ll get through to our pension, and the next generation will take over and solve the intractable problems. But we see that climate change and historical economic change– which I’m sure that my son who is 5 will be dealing with – are happening now, and, if we really live in a democracy, then we should be able to act to mitigate that. That failure has to lead you to question the system, I think.<br /><br />But it’s not supposed to make you depressed. Anger should make you want to do something and that is where the hope arises. On a small level – the micro-political level – certain artistic projects do raise consciousness, and do change a state of complacency to a state of readiness and action. I think it’s a psychological change. I find it hard to be in agreement with people who think everything is ok in the world. I’m quite shocked when I come across people like that. I think the Netherlands has a higher percentage of people who think everything is fine, basically because things around look newer and cleaner than in most other places. But that’s quite a superficial analysis<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Is this ‘big’ political story perhaps somewhat naïve? Are we really capable of distinguishing our desires and the emotions that drive us? What about fear as a force of change?</span><br /><br />Esche: I think fear is almost always negative. I tend to talk in terms of progressive change and regressive change. Change brought about through fear or war is generally negative. Fortunately, if that happens, you still have anger and hope to try and look for future possibilities.<br /><br />We are at war, declared by the West to the ‘rest’ in 2001, a war that was declared as being endless. We are at war now. Yet presently, how conscious are we of being at war? As a culture we are also said to be at war, in the so-called clash of civilisations, and I think the gaping hole where the demand for progressive change should be is very apparent. To me progressive change brings back notions of enlightenment, Marxist thinking to do with justice, with equality, with collectivity and global solidarity. I also refer to an idea of liberty, not personal liberty, but social liberty. These remain progressive values although they need to be reinterpreted, and translated according to economic and political conditions today. Nevertheless, I think these values have something to offer everybody. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On Facebook I read Esche quoting Boris Groys asking the question, ‘What would be the conditions for a new form of the avant-garde to emerge?’ His answer was, ‘I think for an avant-garde to begin, we need a collective sense of direction.’ Esche then asks, ‘How then can we express our common sense of direction? What formats? What forms of ethics and aesthetics? What ‘mass’ movements?’ From this I asked him, ‘Can you explain why it is important that we have a new avant-garde? And what according to you this collective sense of direction entails?’</span><br /><br />Esche: They remain questions for me, that’s why I didn’t answer them [laughs]. I’m not sure that avant-garde is the right mode, the right language, and I’m not sure if I would use it myself. An important point is that the old avant-garde had a horizon which we have lost in the process of seeing real communism fail. Let’s imagine the avant-garde as a leading group followed by a mass that follows behind. According to Groys, the only way anyone knows that the avant garde is in the lead is because there is an imagined destination. If you take the destination away, which is what symbolically happened in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, then suddenly avant-garde becomes disorientated, eventually become just a minority amongst others. I think that’s a good explanation for why populist politicians have been so successful, or why the attack against the elites (which is continued by Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ronald Plasterk now) has been picked up by so many conservatives as well. The criticism of the so-called elite has a profound effect on our social mechanisms and how society might be inspired in a progressive direction because it replaces the call to intellectual inspiration with a battle between celebrities. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Do you think we need those avant-gardist platforms and horizons?</span><br /><br />Esche: We need to wonder what makes us ask the more profound question about our social life and values. I think we cannot live anymore according to the ideas of the avant-garde’s grand narratives of an inevitable direction for the world – as laid out in Hegelian historical progression, which is at the heart of Marxism and the communist idea of revolution. I think from avant-gardists, we have become – or need to become – gardists. I think that means that you are working in and amongst the everyday mass of events and people, a kind of a blind mass that’s always moving, always changing, but not really with the sense of what the next step might be. <br /><br />As an artist, I think you can make micro-suggestions or micro-projects, which affect your immediate environment and neighbours. You can have a kind of micro-avant-garde or micro-politics that focuses on the specifics of an issue, a group, an institution. That could be kind of avant-garde policy, except there isn’t an overarching ideology that connects it all together. You can only say, ‘I’m going to do or say what I believe is important here.’ You’re trying to give direction to a very particular local phenomenon. <br /><br />Perhaps it’s that I’m of an age and upbringing that finds it difficult to think outside an ideological framework. A framework is very simple, it’s very comforting; I miss Marxism, I mourn for it. Yet, I also know it cannot be brought back in the form that it was. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Wired magazine announced in June this year ‘The New Socialism’ and posed that online social media, which originated from an open source standard – for example Wikipedia, Flickr and Twitter – is the vanguard of a cultural movement. From it a global collectivist society was to come. I asked Esche for a response.</span><br /><br />Esche: Traditionally, in order for technology to function, you need to know what to do with it. Technology is just technique, and technique is the ‘how’, its not the ‘why’. I think from the Iranian revolution to our Facebook posts, social media is simply a mechanism to spread something that already exists. The Iranian’s attempt to overthrow a despotic clerical regime would hopefully be followed by thinking about what to replace it with. I find it difficult to believe that technology itself answers the ‘why’ question. What do you do once your connected? But connecting is itself a part of the way there, for sure<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">But then there’s the example of the Detroit artist-architect couple Design 99, who built their energy neutral Powerhouse, and before they could finish, it was picked up by media channels like CNN and The New York Times. The impact of the building, as a symbol or story for dealing with the crisis, has potentially become much bigger than it’s practical local usage. As far as I know, Design 99 didn’t aim for that.</span><br /><br />Esche: But that’s a classic operation of an ideology, rather than a produce of technology. Ideology means you try to impose your view of reality onto a reality that’s already there. Ideology is a way or lens through which you see the phenomena in the world, and this is then how you interpret what happens. I see this building as ideological and that’s why it is so important and successful, I read it as a statement of a group of artists to want their city to be more than it is, or more than it is perceived. The difference is that ideology is traditionally related to big scales. I would argue that Design 99 work on a micro-ideological level thinking through the consequences of their life in Detroit and, in doing so they impose a certain idea on the reality around.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How does this effect their local environment? What kind of change is Design 99 enhancing?</span><br /><br />Esche: It has an effect on the micro level on which they’re working. If you look at the transformation that is going on in Hamtramck, and if you look also at the art world, there’s an extraordinary sense of exuberance in the city – which works right down at the roots of community. Design 99 operates in the midst of a dramatic decline – which they can do nothing about. They will not solve GM’s collapse, but that was never their intention. To them it is about finding a way to live in the existing condition of their communities, with its existing problems. You can sit and be fearful, or you can sit and dream about moving to New York; or you can build a ‘Powerhouse’, which is a combination of anger and hope. Anger because this house is empty, the neighbourhood is insecure, kids lives are wasted but by building it and occupying their own house, or by inviting their friends to taking the one next door, they create the conditions of hope - and they change actual life omn the ground at the same time. Without Design 99 that neighbourhood would be a lot less interesting. <br /><br />As published in Volume 22; The Guide (2009)62-65.Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-26502032648874246092009-12-20T18:57:00.016-05:002009-12-20T19:14:46.710-05:00The back alley of Klinger - Lawley - Moran - Davidson StrA place for a neighborhood exhibition?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kiZGf0Cd3T1oU91iWx1tsIiGjbKHW41P6qr5EmXI2MZ6jpT2FQxblPNhZl_Uvs35FfyQb6vDijBHKjMACyukp3jFkpzMklm-H50OHBRhdnl7NtHyaAQy7M0jmZnK4HRzMr64e88_oLE/s1600-h/_MG_9204.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kiZGf0Cd3T1oU91iWx1tsIiGjbKHW41P6qr5EmXI2MZ6jpT2FQxblPNhZl_Uvs35FfyQb6vDijBHKjMACyukp3jFkpzMklm-H50OHBRhdnl7NtHyaAQy7M0jmZnK4HRzMr64e88_oLE/s400/_MG_9204.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417474873393691554" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgVo_O8jSwr0gqvbWZB18WXIhuXEqQlHHVm-J-aegFI1cOqTyI62pW-ncU3r8ISCwCmPaSDnqDDlaBET_jdqffPRretejxH66KPkWdH0DP93TxJs8IRTNAvPMcHpCFnNpocNL9FfpxXE/s1600-h/_MG_9205.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-Rdz0YWtZauLUp79bCNZ5iuGFiHUJvCz3W1Qg8hs6vs-66Mz-ZTqFosurno84afZa22Ak-b7TIr52GY-BAZYQ33wB35DFcnvSQG0DHqe0G8viy7MrKyOsVL-xpFJHaIHT-tmhaG7wUs/s400/_MG_9248.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417472093764649522" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzCEJicYP4aqTuiovEbcdSwWPnWiwyBj8Y1qIu9SPILTHQdNYqg61F7As95E5dutIb9h_UgIe2pp2oEq86WkHoR9d0VWq-IWVS6-SVjGUt6cnpBHUYHac_hAnaN86Fno4sdE4tY4VRfHM/s1600-h/_MG_9250.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzCEJicYP4aqTuiovEbcdSwWPnWiwyBj8Y1qIu9SPILTHQdNYqg61F7As95E5dutIb9h_UgIe2pp2oEq86WkHoR9d0VWq-IWVS6-SVjGUt6cnpBHUYHac_hAnaN86Fno4sdE4tY4VRfHM/s400/_MG_9250.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417472000514472738" /></a>Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-59227400932804124552009-12-19T11:05:00.009-05:002009-12-19T11:16:41.350-05:00Design 99's Neighborhood ProjectStarting yesterday, <a href="http://www.visitdesign99.com/index.php?/studio/the-neighborhood-project/">Design 99</a> took up residence in the Gibbs Gallery at the <a href="http://www.dia.org/">Detroit Institute of Arts</a> developing <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Neighborhood Project</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjF2uXuECFJd-IL0U9f-3rInb-380u7g_YfmwisF-vfuTzxyZ-mmJT5_Jo8BfiVmVwwc_Eb2JmXI06A9rYRWQ3LAx2aTRHqKMfHFZiPRvFROYeScwHVoYdYvbbBdmnKIJIf_YszNgdi9E/s1600-h/_MG_9184.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjF2uXuECFJd-IL0U9f-3rInb-380u7g_YfmwisF-vfuTzxyZ-mmJT5_Jo8BfiVmVwwc_Eb2JmXI06A9rYRWQ3LAx2aTRHqKMfHFZiPRvFROYeScwHVoYdYvbbBdmnKIJIf_YszNgdi9E/s400/_MG_9184.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416981796594916418" /></a><br />1.<br /><br />It's a work-in-progress workshop where until 20 March the Power House neighborhood will interact with the museum visitors.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnzcjmv7jIGbio4aff-4TVvYBe4Wwkq4_V5eDVkmekjTd-pzMxuoc4oyjC9WDbCCBcISZRLYWM17NvikPnS0WsEwvVMnW_xdbUDKLZJcCgu2uLSFrbhmSJjCF9IHVGkoE7jhJKrWG_ppg/s1600-h/_MG_9186.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnzcjmv7jIGbio4aff-4TVvYBe4Wwkq4_V5eDVkmekjTd-pzMxuoc4oyjC9WDbCCBcISZRLYWM17NvikPnS0WsEwvVMnW_xdbUDKLZJcCgu2uLSFrbhmSJjCF9IHVGkoE7jhJKrWG_ppg/s400/_MG_9186.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416980519768188370" /></a><br />2.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZrwRTfBj7AjcmdolaX4w37HonnNIXILOUWleGzheIok8RkcGk7-06nkPXKKXI-pNmrTXoxDNJaYux7lGWnnciUMWZEPlI4ertZaRiw81WM2m5eO-ahlshKS-zp83fq4l3HiwLa8YmC-s/s1600-h/_MG_9182.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZrwRTfBj7AjcmdolaX4w37HonnNIXILOUWleGzheIok8RkcGk7-06nkPXKKXI-pNmrTXoxDNJaYux7lGWnnciUMWZEPlI4ertZaRiw81WM2m5eO-ahlshKS-zp83fq4l3HiwLa8YmC-s/s400/_MG_9182.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416980657720969346" /></a><br />3.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2mfiDCz-VwqUhRwOKJ2NwaN0OzUfHfmqYBioqiuPWXB2c5WyyjKyxbwhO0C0ijhuhVqnhNet7gqDOAPy6VjxWdG4pYSR5AIiJnyZoj9wltzxml9RzhPqDFBJo7uvlWewibYHzxH2leY/s1600-h/_MG_9188.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2mfiDCz-VwqUhRwOKJ2NwaN0OzUfHfmqYBioqiuPWXB2c5WyyjKyxbwhO0C0ijhuhVqnhNet7gqDOAPy6VjxWdG4pYSR5AIiJnyZoj9wltzxml9RzhPqDFBJo7uvlWewibYHzxH2leY/s400/_MG_9188.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416980794004011682" /></a><br />4.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVXAuJLHXj59i8-huvbnXHOhHoaxJio8gopLqA7SSnfWfB_ADQHBbDRe5uprxruDVduqgraFqvombh-XflQFiR202exAD8rN8fGeJeCjznBqh5IFw4mjrW7khbnYbXI2Z2Y-WhpbPN1w/s1600-h/_MG_9190.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVXAuJLHXj59i8-huvbnXHOhHoaxJio8gopLqA7SSnfWfB_ADQHBbDRe5uprxruDVduqgraFqvombh-XflQFiR202exAD8rN8fGeJeCjznBqh5IFw4mjrW7khbnYbXI2Z2Y-WhpbPN1w/s400/_MG_9190.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416980915842572418" /></a><br />5.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPEfPg6X5tTs8qxEFJIWmc_sHoDcqYCiKS_nMTNQPmsVw4WonCNOIl4X6JcQLV1geqZmlVhgFoXD9lwSjJ3l3hHCrh1jP-FMHbr9Yl1LlYc40oVmZQfVGqtMNib9K0PdmDMDXGqXUgF0/s1600-h/_MG_9189.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPEfPg6X5tTs8qxEFJIWmc_sHoDcqYCiKS_nMTNQPmsVw4WonCNOIl4X6JcQLV1geqZmlVhgFoXD9lwSjJ3l3hHCrh1jP-FMHbr9Yl1LlYc40oVmZQfVGqtMNib9K0PdmDMDXGqXUgF0/s400/_MG_9189.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416981061836310354" /></a><br />6.Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-39731680000693108112009-12-16T12:41:00.017-05:002009-12-16T15:02:13.121-05:00Power House Close-UpThe Power House is off the grid. Since the summer a wind mill on its roof and two solar panels are keeping the battery filled up. After their show in the Detroit Art Institute Design 99's Mitch and Gina plan to continue with the transformation of the house.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0t-MGZzPyxJoyNOcq7x-K-_SreYvbog-QkNW_4x8Cc8wG2otJNJCXxKKePU7kyZ3WUY9jUPGt14igqD_cmOqckDtAcr0j-A9XSimZl2JmEZNNRv-eFTDlAE_-4sRkR-MtNhFoJZy8Mo/s1600-h/16small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0t-MGZzPyxJoyNOcq7x-K-_SreYvbog-QkNW_4x8Cc8wG2otJNJCXxKKePU7kyZ3WUY9jUPGt14igqD_cmOqckDtAcr0j-A9XSimZl2JmEZNNRv-eFTDlAE_-4sRkR-MtNhFoJZy8Mo/s400/16small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415890580442216866" /></a><br />1. The Power House, view from Moran Street - you can see the windmill on the roof<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgl6Tt9tSGKjakNhNp5inBzhbXhhjFCip3EKJCcxy0dCa7wVaswqYohs8vsvofrss_RAh1fsO0GBa8V1Qm8qN7JEuu5HO9L58M0Rg6zYF-1qzIh0a003TlURy-SRbBbvyljnXeXS_Pzpw/s1600-h/10small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgl6Tt9tSGKjakNhNp5inBzhbXhhjFCip3EKJCcxy0dCa7wVaswqYohs8vsvofrss_RAh1fsO0GBa8V1Qm8qN7JEuu5HO9L58M0Rg6zYF-1qzIh0a003TlURy-SRbBbvyljnXeXS_Pzpw/s400/10small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415890846428592418" /></a><br />2. The veranda<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-fI80Z8yN2-mTPbVRiWh306X45K24LjP8gM1V2AJ5F2ufGnx-OgoeAMncDe1lJKyZtDkRca8xpeS6Q-pLssAlu-Wzuvdnct3tzRToQGAH17tx8ZZtI-E3JKvwxT4qWh3CI39akjyOrY/s1600-h/12small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-fI80Z8yN2-mTPbVRiWh306X45K24LjP8gM1V2AJ5F2ufGnx-OgoeAMncDe1lJKyZtDkRca8xpeS6Q-pLssAlu-Wzuvdnct3tzRToQGAH17tx8ZZtI-E3JKvwxT4qWh3CI39akjyOrY/s400/12small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415891046842649426" /></a><br />3. The backyard<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-iWVpststGZM7NndySj5lvCv8cXL7be45Vi0_AmNPPGYiORVahgSvsgbxZ1gre3eFxOvq7XCAc2hZ4aOfjE5wZR6WetRIzyqgHvVlzUJTK7bfwWOTQakHOLkzXhCvhj_KlPeRneP2tw/s1600-h/14small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-iWVpststGZM7NndySj5lvCv8cXL7be45Vi0_AmNPPGYiORVahgSvsgbxZ1gre3eFxOvq7XCAc2hZ4aOfjE5wZR6WetRIzyqgHvVlzUJTK7bfwWOTQakHOLkzXhCvhj_KlPeRneP2tw/s400/14small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415891220992254530" /></a><br />4. The backyard, view from the back alley<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHQMeM1rxO8aXlmld-2ePF2kSqrpE5tfLknU0ABUBDjoF3lHQ2HOayTKgKp7pjcFWaAeJle2w48z8qyV5J7cGZ8W99hQU7lmA4nfQarH08xPe-VcuB9S5mCiNzvldAMNDe71smJlsfFD0/s1600-h/5small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHQMeM1rxO8aXlmld-2ePF2kSqrpE5tfLknU0ABUBDjoF3lHQ2HOayTKgKp7pjcFWaAeJle2w48z8qyV5J7cGZ8W99hQU7lmA4nfQarH08xPe-VcuB9S5mCiNzvldAMNDe71smJlsfFD0/s400/5small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415896663465730786" /></a><br />5. View from the veranda into the former living room, future gallery room<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxDtWOpKpWQaguQtuUnDnODKvZb7BwQq9TtMoatcK2y3MkRDhYCLTLcpIsN5N9B1q0bUbpJG8yDyhSqHH97g6u1Y_z6vmI2am0a5kAuka6MCX8RFdyn8ppDUeQOGXjHL1flAlLckQNK4/s1600-h/8small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxDtWOpKpWQaguQtuUnDnODKvZb7BwQq9TtMoatcK2y3MkRDhYCLTLcpIsN5N9B1q0bUbpJG8yDyhSqHH97g6u1Y_z6vmI2am0a5kAuka6MCX8RFdyn8ppDUeQOGXjHL1flAlLckQNK4/s400/8small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415896938337614786" /></a><br />6. The former kitchen<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhrWBboh4vVJMsAM-wc8XXfD7iy4EGQTLo0zDhnIEC1f2IB00eLtkb0VtussN7Pvz0l6GDz3CAJ4BEbKwgCdIfwIs2weK1lONjAH2Vs9l5C17uQ8dLSKCxcY_KkFn7Gp2EKlbfd_2MIxc/s1600-h/13small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhrWBboh4vVJMsAM-wc8XXfD7iy4EGQTLo0zDhnIEC1f2IB00eLtkb0VtussN7Pvz0l6GDz3CAJ4BEbKwgCdIfwIs2weK1lONjAH2Vs9l5C17uQ8dLSKCxcY_KkFn7Gp2EKlbfd_2MIxc/s400/13small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415897206617558338" /></a><br />7. The former kitchen from the opposite angle<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJKI5M4V8bXCG6fXtVMF09FlS4uMfZcfzfB0bienjyK-Ck7Jk7ufxjo0S-uNTi4FbJvAgr7iMfE8iXxbreTq38VXQxItvTjiI39Ay0hzB5iuZXRsnLSBGksnwY7FBlMX63LGHHv-a1dho/s1600-h/15small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJKI5M4V8bXCG6fXtVMF09FlS4uMfZcfzfB0bienjyK-Ck7Jk7ufxjo0S-uNTi4FbJvAgr7iMfE8iXxbreTq38VXQxItvTjiI39Ay0hzB5iuZXRsnLSBGksnwY7FBlMX63LGHHv-a1dho/s400/15small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415897398569460114" /></a><br />8. View up from the Basement<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZnK-3rK-vB1CswtpOKUfFqKGznRG4AzoCxit6jCszBVloJH3X-usA765DspIydrlXr_FvRj0-hGJYMthCJ5880PD0OZGuGJ7e9YNMug_XBsnBc1lCHvDa6sWc_tKtNEAyrh2EFsq1YE/s1600-h/6small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZnK-3rK-vB1CswtpOKUfFqKGznRG4AzoCxit6jCszBVloJH3X-usA765DspIydrlXr_FvRj0-hGJYMthCJ5880PD0OZGuGJ7e9YNMug_XBsnBc1lCHvDa6sWc_tKtNEAyrh2EFsq1YE/s400/6small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415897644305880338" /></a><br />9. Room next to the gallery space<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSOk9owdf2-k1YwN3KJhRbF8uBrExZDkF1XQBMSVk3LhYutLAQCAaX8LmUN5RYluW_SwZPB4SxiI3c3V0IRguz8ACl25hDnya3cpZtKPhUGT8RQJsaU-H-QbAUvB8Iz1yZdr9lR9SRXI/s1600-h/2small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSOk9owdf2-k1YwN3KJhRbF8uBrExZDkF1XQBMSVk3LhYutLAQCAaX8LmUN5RYluW_SwZPB4SxiI3c3V0IRguz8ACl25hDnya3cpZtKPhUGT8RQJsaU-H-QbAUvB8Iz1yZdr9lR9SRXI/s400/2small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415897932014320994" /></a><br />10. Back room, behind the former kitchen<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdgdHwZSq672mdQrIXUctrOvp2z-Ib04wgSAo5uQmHznSYnFh2LLwtK8iFcR_FMoyl37IAZSxO7Ltke4iW9ITT-p0jpC9qvpV9qmhbOu_BdHIv-s1eyoUiH1t3y_pwF3VhzMeFUOisTw/s1600-h/4small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdgdHwZSq672mdQrIXUctrOvp2z-Ib04wgSAo5uQmHznSYnFh2LLwtK8iFcR_FMoyl37IAZSxO7Ltke4iW9ITT-p0jpC9qvpV9qmhbOu_BdHIv-s1eyoUiH1t3y_pwF3VhzMeFUOisTw/s400/4small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415898128967514178" /></a><br />11. The attic<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjICopNzhi22ZVs3p8dH2J3PWsweD1hQxmdm3YRyV7K5ic5mkwL5d0C-A0yTJGVduqc-x4UvZ7dq553DFChyphenhyphen2xCZkg5x33BqVOgQKGoIYQpEyNPZtn3kCLgsqpAcgrVBsAfU23gHwXjdOQ/s1600-h/7small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjICopNzhi22ZVs3p8dH2J3PWsweD1hQxmdm3YRyV7K5ic5mkwL5d0C-A0yTJGVduqc-x4UvZ7dq553DFChyphenhyphen2xCZkg5x33BqVOgQKGoIYQpEyNPZtn3kCLgsqpAcgrVBsAfU23gHwXjdOQ/s400/7small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415902293645203874" /></a><br />12. The electricity system connecting the wind mill and solar panels to the battery<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65r7MZRYnqHGVqhIX8NhvA6xwAclKVXZZwTy1elMeA56J85hs_f4Kyc8rin6ueKgSOUMkVt7lf-cRvRZTw0JoV7LDUGCqE0UUqkF3dD1ZpkzgNtiRD2N2DSgi8GjqOQ8rig9U70XUesU/s1600-h/1small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65r7MZRYnqHGVqhIX8NhvA6xwAclKVXZZwTy1elMeA56J85hs_f4Kyc8rin6ueKgSOUMkVt7lf-cRvRZTw0JoV7LDUGCqE0UUqkF3dD1ZpkzgNtiRD2N2DSgi8GjqOQ8rig9U70XUesU/s400/1small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415898649725911538" /></a><br />13. Looking into the second room from above<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMNSR-voOFIHNyqvrPC_E-hmEV1WKVg7CqUeg6pjpZCTTffPStkbpgtLH83BIjaPSK5E2M4OwbizYV6pbotlj-Gg3TF4e95G-hlyrgcjdyX91dnsU95RKrGESSZTdbFQzn3kbuFoBIMQM/s1600-h/3small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMNSR-voOFIHNyqvrPC_E-hmEV1WKVg7CqUeg6pjpZCTTffPStkbpgtLH83BIjaPSK5E2M4OwbizYV6pbotlj-Gg3TF4e95G-hlyrgcjdyX91dnsU95RKrGESSZTdbFQzn3kbuFoBIMQM/s400/3small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415898880653391010" /></a><br />14. Floor detail<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqP9_Mtrv8yqWUgTv0xHP6i6BAlM0M7EjpKYpgCWM7c77b0Omq9HW22UdsyDujY0e4xQQ5ui_llDBaGm8j-M6Am_GpkxtSdxrhMvK0IrkE70Il_YDMghS007E3wIlDbD2n3-DIPsupiw/s1600-h/9small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqP9_Mtrv8yqWUgTv0xHP6i6BAlM0M7EjpKYpgCWM7c77b0Omq9HW22UdsyDujY0e4xQQ5ui_llDBaGm8j-M6Am_GpkxtSdxrhMvK0IrkE70Il_YDMghS007E3wIlDbD2n3-DIPsupiw/s400/9small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415899069961071954" /></a><br />The back alley behind the Power HouseChristian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-56750060224424667792009-12-15T17:03:00.010-05:002010-01-20T11:09:40.527-05:00Speaking for Detroit<span style="font-weight:bold;">It has been quiet on the Unreal Estate front lately. After a tumultuous first year we have been focusing the last months on gathering funds for an artist –in – residency and making a publication, ‘The Atlas of Love and Hate’. This will be published as part of Volume magazine on 23 December. The relative calmness of the editorial work gave us time to reflect on all the discussions we had, on what the effects of our endeavor has been until now and on the criticism and positive feedback that we got. <br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lWONYmd-KmRoIvsXw0RespItMpewalh-eCWvJDoOQQXkrbr7WIgVfHX7uqwvqquU1YKLQh11kZ0pznhLkFiqNLCWoGRLHt58VBhvcE6_lIVLBszbSFioZep2lW7ge5YTmZMXI3pQuII/s1600-h/_MG_9118.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lWONYmd-KmRoIvsXw0RespItMpewalh-eCWvJDoOQQXkrbr7WIgVfHX7uqwvqquU1YKLQh11kZ0pznhLkFiqNLCWoGRLHt58VBhvcE6_lIVLBszbSFioZep2lW7ge5YTmZMXI3pQuII/s400/_MG_9118.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415587184009439394" /></a><br />1. Back in Mitch & Gina's homey kitchen, December 2009<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />One year of Unreal Estate</span><br />After the launch of the agency, studios were taught on Detroit’s Unreal Estate at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and the Architectural Department of the University of Michigan. Artists Mitch Cope and Marjectica Portc as well as architects Mireille Roddier and Michael Stanton came to the DAI to give lectures on American cities and on Detroit especially. <br /><br />A two-week collaborative art project in Hamtramck took place in April. 12 artists, writers, architects and photographers lived for two weeks in the neighborhood. A final presentation at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD) showed the work and discussions after two weeks. Artist Diederick Kraaijeveld started his beneficiary ‘Icons of Hope’ project and the curators of the Unreal Estate project initiated the research, which lead to the artist – in – residency and coop plan. <br /><br />Before the studios started, Andrew Herscher and Mireille Roddier published on unreal estate in Volume # 18 ‘ After Zero’. On the side, I was engaged with ‘From Crisis to Project’ the Archis RSVP event in Warren, which had the ‘Warren Special Report’ published with Volume #20 as a first result. And the Netherlands Architecture Institute organized a roundtable discussion on the same topic with a contribution by Warren’s County Commissioner Toni Moceri. The City of Warren is initiating a discussion about its Master plan in January 2010.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-CzdcXxI-uAawYKFIoREr1McE2Hxrl-PnjPFe978RlaJ_p8M4RV-iHi9b1RZaIh2ISmkerjzrmq-OUletriL9DoKVBLPgErss7beIMXwG0qTLYgdbVZD-zGq_0anvU7D3Dkrugzl3blw/s1600-h/_MG_9122.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-CzdcXxI-uAawYKFIoREr1McE2Hxrl-PnjPFe978RlaJ_p8M4RV-iHi9b1RZaIh2ISmkerjzrmq-OUletriL9DoKVBLPgErss7beIMXwG0qTLYgdbVZD-zGq_0anvU7D3Dkrugzl3blw/s400/_MG_9122.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415587428626979410" /></a><br />2. The meadow in the winter, December 2009<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Media spectacle</span><br />During the start up period of the Unreal Estate project Toby Barlow’s op-ed piece ‘For Sale: $100 Houses’ was published in The New York Times – more or less in the period of the crisis of GM and Chrysler. As a result there was significant media attention given to Detroit, its alternative real estate practices and the autonomous forms of living being developed there. Detroit was declared the ‘new’ Berlin. For example, Design 99 – Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope – and their Power House project received an amazing amount of public attention, artists from all over the US showed interest in moving to Detroit, and lots of people emailed us for information. In response to the near bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler, several Dutch broadcasting channels and newspapers as well as photographers visited the city to portray ‘new’ forms of urban pioneering in the context of the decline of the automotive industry. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1nnMc6_AIsTpEHFcvNZccZP17VTTrjOay3xtqZy_ibscmJ3FiN5bt9gJ-FA4NTlRozbKTnwVL7xqDgqDbDfxjwRcrCyzj1Ye_GICMaJt2gBryeQ2H2VlqmRfIRUuDS0qj2Sg-Qkc_FM/s1600-h/_MG_9126.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1nnMc6_AIsTpEHFcvNZccZP17VTTrjOay3xtqZy_ibscmJ3FiN5bt9gJ-FA4NTlRozbKTnwVL7xqDgqDbDfxjwRcrCyzj1Ye_GICMaJt2gBryeQ2H2VlqmRfIRUuDS0qj2Sg-Qkc_FM/s400/_MG_9126.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415587672593228098" /></a><br />3. A to be started house project by the University of Michigan, December 2009<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Criticism</span><br />While Detroit was becoming a media spectacle, the artists and architects we worked with in Hamtramck tried to figure out in the short time frame of two weeks how to relate to and engage with this place. The media attention greatly complicated this very personal exploration. The artists felt pressure. Tensions rose during these two weeks between us, as curators, and the artists. Artist <a href="http://howtogoon.com/">Jimini Hignett</a> articulated her frustrations and dilemmas in an interesting way in her diary, which will be published in the ‘Love and Hate Atlas’. Here is a fragment:<br /><br />'Do I want to be part of a setup where art-bytes seem to be more important than actual art? Where clearly the temporary façade is more important than any actual improvement – to be seen to be doing something more important than actually doing anything. This is a world I am usually at pains to avoid. No longer able to feel comfortable with a work ironic or cynical, or a sharp one-liner, I remain guiltily silent about my humorous word game – Destroit.' (Jimini Hignett, Volume 22 (Archis; Amsterdam 2009))<br /><br />Additionally, artists Raymond Huizinga and Sasha Miljevic addressed their uneasiness working as artists in the city, and commented critically in public on the Detroit Unreal Estate project and its ambitions. <br /><br />Questions were raised about a whole range of issues: our ideological agenda, our responsibilities as curators of the project, our organizational capacities and our group management skills. In hindsight, I can say we did underestimate the impact of bringing a group of individuals to a city as vast and strange as Detroit in the context of a project which was still in a research phase. Due to the fact that we’re social scientists by training and not artists our ways of engaging with the city differed as well. Moreover, living for a two week period in a neighborhood in despair was more overwhelming for most participants then we expected. <br /><br />Later, I heard also comments from people outside of our group questioning our knowledge of the everyday life of the city as foreigners, or concerning our colleagues as in Ann Arbor – based academics. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKv32L3Q7sfdDuRrxxl-HzLTld1gyeE5G7n8wBfiy-Ev2UZrUIu95K70TVsZ__rFVYWmWcdXJj8-lKyL2R2OkPSJNF72TzeZwOSJjfie2hyphenhyphenb3C2u5Atfd6w4PgSeOF8Zq1zCbhkzBg1qs/s1600-h/_MG_9129.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKv32L3Q7sfdDuRrxxl-HzLTld1gyeE5G7n8wBfiy-Ev2UZrUIu95K70TVsZ__rFVYWmWcdXJj8-lKyL2R2OkPSJNF72TzeZwOSJjfie2hyphenhyphenb3C2u5Atfd6w4PgSeOF8Zq1zCbhkzBg1qs/s400/_MG_9129.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415587908106214706" /></a><br />4. The garden of the Power House, December 2009<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Projects</span><br />At the end of the two-week period we, At the end of the two-week period, we were all exhausted, but there were some very interesting outcomes. Yet, there were also very interesting outcomes. Photographer Corine Vermeulen and curator Femke Lutgerink set up and executed a Walk-in Portrait Studio in Klinger Street inspired by the famous Walker Evens photograph of the License Photo Studio in New York; artist Lado Darakhevelidze did his ‘Future Postman’ performance and collected stories about Detroit’s future. Jimini created her work <span style="font-style:italic;">Speramus Meliora</span>, for which she turned foraged plywood into a billboard with fret-worked words, which she then used to board up two charred houses. Finally, artist Monika Berenyi and graphic designer Cecilia Costa organized a poetry slam event with representatives of the famous generation of Detroit poets from the 60s and 70s. One of the highlights was definitely Melba Joyce Boyd's reading of her poem 'We want our city back', which inspired Joost Janmaat, me and architect Berenika Boberska to hang a self made chandelier above a recently cleaned out meadow on Moran Street. Mitch wrote a nice post on his blog on the ‘Euro invasion’.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmat0O3wy14RJ_N4hKCwDtg3S_O6cD3__mzRr3GzNGeZ3QEYZQWaZ4Klu93vxo7oL3UW9gCNzxWyHiDM5AtSQ5JtgiYE_vbwqvi_hIU0PYUxcV_N7XLoI5Dg0ldbwOY-Hs_5owrcTmVU/s1600-h/_MG_9131.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmat0O3wy14RJ_N4hKCwDtg3S_O6cD3__mzRr3GzNGeZ3QEYZQWaZ4Klu93vxo7oL3UW9gCNzxWyHiDM5AtSQ5JtgiYE_vbwqvi_hIU0PYUxcV_N7XLoI5Dg0ldbwOY-Hs_5owrcTmVU/s400/_MG_9131.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415588183551949394" /></a><br />5. The garden of the Power House, December 2009<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Learning from Detroit</span><br />I remember a few conversations in Detroit with artists who participated in project. A photographer mentioned that while he knew that Detroit’s ruins had been photographed a zillion times, he could not resist shooting all the iconic pictures again. He felt after two weeks that he had barely enough time to understand photographically the effect of the spectacle of the ruined urban landscape let alone producing something ‘new’. <br /><br />Another artist questioned her role as an outsider in Detroit, but also the effect of the Powerhouse project or Heidelberg project. She wondered how our engagement with the city was the result of the way you experienced the suffering of the place and its people. I also remember a discussion about Diederick Kraaijeveld’s art piece depicting an Afro-American woman and a discussion of his ‘see, buy, fly’ - making art method.<br /><br />The agency of an individual artist or architect or more precisely the right to speak for the city, to reproduce, to use, to create the city is closely scrutinized when working in Detroit. Trying to understand this, as an outoftowner it seems that the knowledge of the city, the time you spend there, and where you lived, your working relation with the city, the way you engage socially, the racial group your part of, the things you do to make the city a better place, and the amount of money you make off that, are some of the guidelines for determining whether you have or have not the capacity to speak. Then obviously the question which guideline is most important depends from conversation partner to conversation partner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQct3RCGlHPU0q_zVo-ex_vGq8wruXMt4R08G5HATS2tqqYeNDom7mW2Jm1HpDgCM1G4PdLQ7Wi41Sog8DmBOOVYOySxlAocuH7bxYLqk6BS_UQSzOCQgtCSBMq4N3y0hAupqC0qeMJAU/s1600-h/_MG_9134.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQct3RCGlHPU0q_zVo-ex_vGq8wruXMt4R08G5HATS2tqqYeNDom7mW2Jm1HpDgCM1G4PdLQ7Wi41Sog8DmBOOVYOySxlAocuH7bxYLqk6BS_UQSzOCQgtCSBMq4N3y0hAupqC0qeMJAU/s400/_MG_9134.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415588429436972434" /></a><br />6. Kerstin Niemann's house on Moran St, December 2009<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />The New Detroit?</span><br />Questions of ethics, and debates about appropriate ways of working in Detroit are old. Yet, everyone has to deal with their ongoing relevance. Cultivating awareness, is, at least, a good beginning. <br /><br />The media spectacle and references to Berlin could to make the discussion more complex. The frivolous enthusiasm by newcomers for the potential of Detroit could add to the viability of the city, but at what costs?<br /><br />Perhaps it can really be like curator Charles Esche suggested - that a group of ‘gardists’ might into existence. Individuals or groups that can set a strong course of action in their very local setting – investigating different ways of living and inspiring others to do the same. We can hope that new way of living is focused on improving Detroit for the sake of everyone who’s building a life here. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOn4wVCQxvUoj2vUiBec4AwBndCnoEEtfVI2et5-dDcVcX74yUQ5e1kS6qHXYGcdhFogw6rPuldJ5ve8Er5bOX_HTNg3Ff9olxoMxclhtuu9KlPtAuxKUb1IGP3AaL5XQb1IaF7mDsAHw/s1600-h/_MG_9136.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOn4wVCQxvUoj2vUiBec4AwBndCnoEEtfVI2et5-dDcVcX74yUQ5e1kS6qHXYGcdhFogw6rPuldJ5ve8Er5bOX_HTNg3Ff9olxoMxclhtuu9KlPtAuxKUb1IGP3AaL5XQb1IaF7mDsAHw/s400/_MG_9136.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415588729024782050" /></a><br />7. Tree of Heaven project garden, December 2009Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-10455679250845176352009-12-15T16:20:00.006-05:002009-12-15T17:03:11.118-05:00Launch Volume # 22 The GuideWe invite you to join us for the launch of <span style="font-weight:bold;">VOLUME #22 The Guide</span>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFt3zkrdqsBE8nGXPsJFL_eX0pCN_44wPM0dFsH_0JeNm0_j2LKu3wUknD6twFn0Q5mojxkf_aepMP7_q57TN5esbycalkZsmAyvZhgFvNGay_W-scpWFszbty2X2xkZ39is05ybs5pnM/s1600-h/V22_cover_091209-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFt3zkrdqsBE8nGXPsJFL_eX0pCN_44wPM0dFsH_0JeNm0_j2LKu3wUknD6twFn0Q5mojxkf_aepMP7_q57TN5esbycalkZsmAyvZhgFvNGay_W-scpWFszbty2X2xkZ39is05ybs5pnM/s400/V22_cover_091209-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415576949005440930" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Athenaeum News Centre, Spui, Amsterdam, December 22, 5-7pm</span><br /><br />About this issue:<br />Guiding – as it is commonly understood – is not about creating; it’s about helping. The guide has no goal other than to lead someone safely to the destiny of their choice. The guide is skilled; he or she actually can lead the way, but does so without ambition beyond delivering quality service. The guide sells safety where risk is involved.<br /><br />Contributors:<br />Arjen Oosterman, Jan van Grunsven, Ole Bouman, Rory Hyde, Atelier Bow-Wow, Michael Kubo, Edwin Gardner, Filip Mischelwitsch, Jonathan Hanahan, Louisa Bufardeci, Sunny Bains, Anastassia Smirnova, Thomas Daniell, Kate Rhodes, Naomi Stead, Thomas Kilpper, Lucy Bullivant, Christian Ernsten + Charles Esche <br /><br />As a special insert to this issue Volume presents the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Atlas of Love and Hate</span> produced by the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvysE0kU0vrH4htrqw5YiziHpUOVxL1F29XkMu9A0p5ZG5xxussCwrFPVKX-I5dPkmSs5CsLI293Mw2ZL-OqNckxMRLVROTt0u-AeNn8mg65fKdgzsi4saR4O_InYywd3zQacYwpGoEY/s1600-h/V22_011209_love+hate+atlassmall.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvysE0kU0vrH4htrqw5YiziHpUOVxL1F29XkMu9A0p5ZG5xxussCwrFPVKX-I5dPkmSs5CsLI293Mw2ZL-OqNckxMRLVROTt0u-AeNn8mg65fKdgzsi4saR4O_InYywd3zQacYwpGoEY/s400/V22_011209_love+hate+atlassmall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415579021065083794" /></a><br /><br />VOLUME Magazine #22 was conceived and edited by <a href="http://archis.org/">Archis</a>.Christian Ernstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13949952150175969140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-23029967882274964682009-12-01T11:55:00.006-05:002009-12-01T12:25:04.806-05:00Work in progress: HAMUCUnder the working title <span style="font-style: italic;">HAMUC: Hamtramck Unreal Estate Development Cooperative</span> we're in the process of developing a Cooperative as a vehicle to put into practice "Bottom-up Urban Renewal". In this process we'll figure out what the goals of such a coop would be, how it would operate, what legal construction is needed or is possible under the current local cooperative law. So nothing is final, but these are the first idea's. Feedback is more than welcome. (click images for full size)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0F6WkFk85rle7WGeJGagsE5lT1eo_aR_istqy01xhRPArakpd-AYNubU6Uy9_8MvXm8lDKXAah07etWtP0i1HN0VjYl56Peay-LvZytHauwY4H-NmXBrp6XVn2RtjawdWz41MJ10tjQ/s1600/Picture+83.png"><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYU7Ucw-P0amFKEqI6-PTj6sr3e_D6f9jHeg_tTtXb5xS9JCGz3iZD0UY08lSXC5x26CoSJK8VsDumxSdeLErUa2xAKn6yg4T5nikYjryLK-zgUOV2JVxTA5v6euHubxTaOMdzbsOrIwo/s400/Picture+83.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410316612030064818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0F6WkFk85rle7WGeJGagsE5lT1eo_aR_istqy01xhRPArakpd-AYNubU6Uy9_8MvXm8lDKXAah07etWtP0i1HN0VjYl56Peay-LvZytHauwY4H-NmXBrp6XVn2RtjawdWz41MJ10tjQ/s1600/Picture+84.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0F6WkFk85rle7WGeJGagsE5lT1eo_aR_istqy01xhRPArakpd-AYNubU6Uy9_8MvXm8lDKXAah07etWtP0i1HN0VjYl56Peay-LvZytHauwY4H-NmXBrp6XVn2RtjawdWz41MJ10tjQ/s400/Picture+84.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410316616819161202" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fRtHmiRR9QzIFmT-S2ITl0jGjAqI4-t19Teoq6Fg-8WYICVQ0sVvW1mcmCQ4y0rbgq_Ycal6QZgZfPVdx4uiGLU6NRccWpXgIbLdN78VnF9nhkJhDwWJIFO7RQMhnmfY50G3UmZ7UKA/s1600/Picture+85.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fRtHmiRR9QzIFmT-S2ITl0jGjAqI4-t19Teoq6Fg-8WYICVQ0sVvW1mcmCQ4y0rbgq_Ycal6QZgZfPVdx4uiGLU6NRccWpXgIbLdN78VnF9nhkJhDwWJIFO7RQMhnmfY50G3UmZ7UKA/s400/Picture+85.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410316626720505282" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDoVYhMRfw2U36f5xdcP1MsiFu9aoBH4bY-kiWppySuZc5vkStzUY4U0gtlbCIPcfq8D8cxTkYDDdromKF_ppyJnTXbMShKU3e8dnAxzjXc9hO-ORtzG50WRgYfud18J8o-wujaO3E4Q/s1600/Picture+86.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDoVYhMRfw2U36f5xdcP1MsiFu9aoBH4bY-kiWppySuZc5vkStzUY4U0gtlbCIPcfq8D8cxTkYDDdromKF_ppyJnTXbMShKU3e8dnAxzjXc9hO-ORtzG50WRgYfud18J8o-wujaO3E4Q/s400/Picture+86.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410316629753862626" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXPesrJxnsdY1hkWQKqnfCtIpYz_oMQntaxSlsgCSxi4E-eJb2hZ-efnDIsjxCcxr8INNYtwcffkg7aeZVeNk8I0ISLo21fAJsebgsumXgK9zBWlZXySJU0_iZmWcHRs1HXf8mqcP4Uw/s1600/Picture+87.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXPesrJxnsdY1hkWQKqnfCtIpYz_oMQntaxSlsgCSxi4E-eJb2hZ-efnDIsjxCcxr8INNYtwcffkg7aeZVeNk8I0ISLo21fAJsebgsumXgK9zBWlZXySJU0_iZmWcHRs1HXf8mqcP4Uw/s400/Picture+87.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410316633551523938" border="0" /></a><br /><br />More information on Cooperative on Wikipedia:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative">Cooperative</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement_on_the_Co-operative_Identity">Statement on the Co-operative Identity</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles">Rochdale Principles</a>Edwin Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143526038088346151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-6541784804742318832009-11-30T09:13:00.003-05:002010-01-19T18:18:34.018-05:00The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep'<a href="http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/945aynyk.asp"><span style="font-size:130%;">Detroit is dying. But, it is not dead yet.</span></a>'<br />This great article was published almost a year ago but is well worth reading.<br /><a href="http://howtogoon.com/index.php/speramus-meliora-2/"><br />(For more on Jimini Hignett's work in Detroit click here.)</a>Jimini Hignetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476005481329007096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-5924194010875472672009-11-30T09:03:00.003-05:002010-01-19T18:13:47.619-05:00Requiem for DetroitAt the IDFA (International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam) last week I happened to see a work-in-progress preview of a ‘Requiem for Detroit’ by ‘roll&roll’ documentary maker Julian Temple. It included some of our friends – Grace Lee Boggs, poet John Sinclair, the Packard plant and artist Tyree Gruyton. On the whole there were way too many white men talking and not enough coherent Afro-Americans included, but it linked threads of auto-industry and Motown and was, I suppose, entertaining enough. It’s a BBC-2 production, I expect it’ll be out sometime early next year.<br /><br />This from the industry news site:<br />Detroit Requiem<br />“An award-winning independent production company has been commissioned by BBC Two to produce a documentary that will tell the 'roller-coaster' story of a US city's automotive industry.<br />Told through the testimony of the people who lived through it, Requiem for Detroit?, is a single episode 75-minute programme that is being directed by Julien Temple, from Films of Record, a Ten Alps company which specialises in high quality factual programming<br />He said that it will be powered by extraordinary archive – vivid projections of the famous American city's heyday on its now abandoned buildings – and the irrepressible music that continues to come out of Detroit, from ragtime and rap to techno.”<br />Read more <a href="http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=102970">here</a><br />More from <a href="http://howtogoon.com">Jimini Hignett here...</a>Jimini Hignetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05476005481329007096noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855931255047419692.post-63477384282166047072009-11-16T05:29:00.002-05:002009-11-16T05:33:48.587-05:00NY Times: In Detroit, Agencies Compete to Sell City as a Creative HavenYesterday, November 15, Stuart Elliott wrote for the NY Times about selling Detroit as a creative Haven. Check it out.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY8P87PX1ZV_6grPxTa23ATM1FKSabt6iRl14K1a2cBYgA07IZn55yXYzVwqlp5L099ZZzQ1wjnVm_7o20PgqB00_-YdF4bwWL2ZOfZSXUs8JlllNravChou4fJWwBFVFNk_dv8oc1VpnX/s1600/DetroitCreativeCity_091115.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY8P87PX1ZV_6grPxTa23ATM1FKSabt6iRl14K1a2cBYgA07IZn55yXYzVwqlp5L099ZZzQ1wjnVm_7o20PgqB00_-YdF4bwWL2ZOfZSXUs8JlllNravChou4fJWwBFVFNk_dv8oc1VpnX/s320/DetroitCreativeCity_091115.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404647646613155858" /></a>Femke Lutgerinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01115598188860751072noreply@blogger.com3