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Public space is currently under siege: pressure to consume, growing
surveillance, and ever increasing motor traffic threaten to change the
appearance of our cities in a fundamental way. The two artists Folke
Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have been working on their concept of
artistic and aesthetic opposition to these developments since 1998. They
suggest alternatives to the consumerist ideology—structural interventions,
artistic statements, actions, and theories. The artists use streets,
squares, bridges, parks, and interiors as areas in which to operate. The
materials used always originate from existing “urban resources”: throw- or
giveaway objects and even garbage. Each of their works is therefore founded
on communicative and social aspects. At the same time, we are stimulated to
emulate, disseminate, and multiply their strategies, since they can be
realised with the simplest of materials.
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"Köbberling & Kaltwasser's book - Hold it! - serves as a summary of
the outfit's work so far. In it the authors stress that their role, rather
than that of a traditional architect, is to offer 'examples of empowerment
and the temporary popular appropriation of urban space... Architects could
help to convey how to do things yourself, how to experiment, and how to
harness potential'. So bicycles are built from the spare parts of a Peugeot
205; a disused bus shelter becomes a forum for community life in Linz;
small, shanty-type booths offer an escape from CCTV surveillance in
Nottingham; a pavilion near the stock exchange in Zürich becomes a meeting
place, a lecture hall and a soup kitchen; and a family house is erected
overnight on a vacant field close to Gropiusstadt housing estate in Berlin."
Tony Minichiello in MARK magazine No. 31
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