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Diego Chamy, Valentina Karga: Valentina Karga in conversation with Diego Chamy: A Garden in Marzahn. Experiments in Autonomy
Valentina Karga in conversation with Diego Chamy: A Garden in Marzahn. Experiments in Autonomy
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Valentina Karga in conversation with Diego Chamy: A Garden in Marzahn. Experiments in Autonomy

Diego Chamy, Valentina Karga

Valentina Karga in conversation with Diego Chamy: A Garden in Marzahn. Experiments in Autonomy

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The conversation centers around the Summer School for Applied Autonomy, a self-sufficient garden and experiment in autonomous living in Marzahn-Berlin, implemented collectively by a number of students of the Berlin University of the Arts among others. Reflecting about this singular experience addresses a variety of problems such as the seemingly unavoidable dependence of an eco-microcosm such as the garden, how things circulate within intangible and tangible spaces, how the garden effected, in a naturally limited but, for all participants of the project, palpable and perceivable way, a shift from a monetary economy to an economy of exchange and eventually an economy of giving. The article discusses the project as a simulation of autonomous life, as an exceptional situation within the urban everyday lives, and draws some conclusions of what it means to live under the conditions proposed by this experiment.

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Diego Chamy

born 1975 in Buenos Aires, lives in Berlin since 2006, where he is currently active as an artist, play writer, and actor. In 2010 he started »Internet«, a collective with the British artist Siân Robinson Davies, which produces scripted works such as theater plays, stand-up comedy, performance art as well as films.

Valentina Karga

is an artist and architect who graduated from the University of Thessaly. During her fellowship at the Graduate School for the Arts and the Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts she founded the »Summer School for Applied Autonomy«, a research initiative for the exploration of autonomous living. She has participated with lectures, seminars, workshops and presentations at numerous events, most recently her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and the 2013 Athens Biennial.

Susanne Stemmler (ed.): Wahrnehmung, Erfahrung, Experiment, Wissen

Wissenschaftsnahe Arbeitsweisen von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern – oft als »künstlerische Forschung« bezeichnet – werfen Fragen der Produktion, des Teilens, des Dekonstruierens und der Wiederaneignung von Wissen auf. Verhältnisse von Objektivität und Subjektivität sind dabei stets untergründiges oder auch explizit angesprochenes Thema: Während von »den Wissenschaften« oft noch eine »objektive« Herangehensweise erwartet wird, reklamieren die Künste die Freiheit und das Recht auf »Subjektivität«. Es ist aber genau der schmale Grat zwischen diesen beiden Extremen, auf dem Definitionen künstlerischer und wissenschaftlicher Praktiken ausgehandelt werden. Der Band versammelt Positionen von Expertinnen und Experten aus Wissenschaften und Künsten sowie von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zu diesem Thema.

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