How do we want to live? What kind of place do we need to live and work? What alternatives are there to dominant forms of ownership and market-driven housing policies at a time when space is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive and citizens are being pushed out of their homes? Anke Bangma of TENT talks to Robert Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma of FGA about their long-term research into collective and self-organized housing and the current situation of the Rotterdam (and Dutch) housing crisis.
The conversation will take place in the Shared Space of TENT and Kunstinstituut Melly, in the midst of FGA's installation with historical and current documents, manifestos and newspaper articles about the growing resistance to disruptive housing policies and alternative housing visions.
Fucking Good Art is an editorial project by Robert Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma, which revolves around oral history, counterculture, self-organization and DIT—do it together. Earlier research on CO-OPs in Switzerland (published in 'What Life Could Be', FGA#38, 2019) inspired their search in their own city of Rotterdam. This research manifested itself in a blog, the exhibition Rotterdam Cultural Histories#19 at TENT and in weekly radio reports at Radio WORM Open City, a selection of which you can listen to here.
