The editors of Open invited Dennis Kaspori and Jeanne van Heeswijk to author a contribution including various initiatives that raise this issue and formulate proposals that could lead to potential solutions. The text below also serves as the point of departure for the two-year project ‘Hospitality for what is to come’, which Jeanne van Heeswijk and Dennis Kaspori are realizing in association with the European Cultural Foundation from the ‘Blauwe Huis’ (the ‘Blue House’) in Amsterdam. The project will consist of a number of interconnected guesthouses, meeting places and clandestine routes that serve as a platform for contributing to the debate about hospitality and migration.
Post Resilence
The Argentinian collective m7red offers a probing analysis of the economic crisis in Argentina and shows how this has, for example, led to the introduction of alternative practices for the exchange of goods and services – cultural ones in particular – that have ended up beyond the reach of most Argentinians.
Open 12: Freedom of culture. Regulation and privatization of intellectual property and public space.
Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain is published twice a year by NAi Publishers in collaboration with SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain.
May 2007