TRAMPING PRESENTATIONS
AZUL BLASEOTTO UND EDUARDO MOLINARI:
I AM NO CLIENT
Azul Blaseotto and Eduardo Molinari have established a mobile dock in the HERBERGE. A platform for interaction, thought, and imagination, the space is open to everyone. In the midst of post-industrial, global-finance capitalism, one can nevertheless shape contemporary urban space by developing collective ideas and images from the appeals that were first articulated by the Congress of Vagabonds in 1929.
The visual artists Azul Blaseotto and Eduardo Molinari founded the art space La Darsena in Buenos Aires.
HERBERGE and urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 23.06., 09:00 pm
TAISIYA KRUGOVYKH UND VASILY BOGATOV:
EXERCISES IN VAGRANCY
I left my home on the 13th and never came back. For most people, I became a soul who will soon be forgotten, banished from the thoughts of those I once knew, as if sold into slavery or kidnapped by a maniac or an organ trader, never to be seen again. But who, I ask, desires an organ from my worn body?
Goods and possessions encased in plastic bags, along with photos and videos, delineate the picture of a vagabond in Russia within the urban space of Stuttgart.
Taisiya Krugovykh and Vasily Bogatov are documentary filmmakers. They have collaborated with the Russian art collectives Voina and Pussy Riot, respectively.
HERBERGE and urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 24.06., 08:00 pm
ANDREAS LIEBMANN:
ACTIVISM BY NIGHT
Bank vaults shine into the night sky. Patients call out to nurses, who have nodded off during their shifts. Rats and wage-workers howl in competition with one another. Andreas Liebmann screws at circadian rhythms, examines the potential of reserved time, and commences friendships with grey shapes, objects, and terms, which often do not see the light of day, but keep the machine running, nevertheless.
Andreas Liebmann is an author, director, and performer. He lives in Zürich and Berlin.
HERBERGE and urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 25.06., 08:00 pm
SIYABONGA MTHEMBU:
THE VAGABOND NEWS NETWORK – NO MORE TUESDAYS!
In response to the realization that the large news networks are run by capitalist oligarchs, whose interests frame world events and determine what is news and what isn’t, the Vagabond News Network protests this skewed picture of reality. This show includes pre-recorded excerpts from vagabonds on the road around the world, who demonstrate how life itself can be fashioned into an unending general strike.
Hosted on NoMoreTuesdays.com by Mr. Gold WaseGoli, the Vagabond News Network covers the anniversary of the Congress of Vagabonds, first held in 1929.
Siyabonga Mthembu is singer, storyteller and performer from Johannesburg.
HERBERGE, www.nomoretuesday.com / 10.06., 10:10 – 10:35 am , 17.06., 01:13–01:38 pm and 24.06. 5:17 – 5:42 pm
HERBERGSSALON / 11.06., 08:00 pm
KARL PHILIPS:
LIGHT POLE NEST
Given that current urban protest movements occupy public places and rely on digital communication for their organization, the light post acquires a new meaning as a neurological synapse of contemporary politics. The Belgian conceptual artist and (h)a(c)ktivist Karl Philips converts this post into a working station that simultaneously functions as a monitoring guard, ensures uninterrupted radio communication, provides light, and delivers electricity. This détournement relies on both political and economic strategies in order to create something like a pirates’s nest that is beneficial to everyone.
Urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 16.06., 08:00 pm
ALINA POPA UND FLORIN FLUERAS:
UNSORCERY. DEAD THINKING
The notion of “unsorcery” is the embrace of an impossible cognition and a horrific affect, the unfolding of a ‚via negativa‘ that begins where hope ends, leaving everything else behind as remnants of a bleak, dark, and dead world. Unsorcery proposes concepts and practices such as Second Body, Dead Thinking, Eternal Feeding Technique, which orient the viewer away from both the current capitalist religion and the nostalgic mystification of world and nature. The final destination is unknown, but Unsorcery is the only hope that remains.
The visual artist Alina Popa und the choreographer Florin Flueras are from Rumania. They established the art, science & business program at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.
Urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 20.06., 08:00 pm
BOOK LAUNCH BEZNA #5 at Marienkirche / 22.06., 12:15 pm
FLANERIE. LABOR FÜR GEDANKEN&GÄNGE:
WITHOUT HURRY AND RUSH
Slow down! The turtle specifies the speed. Walter Benjamin once said that there was a time in which it was graceful to carry along a turtle while promenading. We follow her.
Tina Saum and Daniela Metz live in Stuttgart and produce urban culture.
Urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 23.06., 08:00 pm
AYA TAREK:
SECRET PROPAGANDA PRINT SHOP
The Vagabond propagandist walks the fine line between multiple subject positions: the advertiser/the artist/the manipulator/the blunt /the thief/the original/the opportunist/the altruistic/the Hypocrite/the genuine/the conformist/the repel/the famous and the anonymous.
Aya Tarek is an urban artist from Alexandria.
Urban space and Ebene0 (Car Park) / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON at the Ebene0 / Parkhaus Züblin, Lazarettstr. 5 (Car Park) / 21.06., 20:00 Uhr
JUSTIN TIME:
I HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING
The action “I haven’t done anything” is, literally, an anti-action. At specific places in the urban space of Stuttgart, the artist will sit down for the length of the day. Accompanied by colorful inflatable armchairs, he will occupy a spot delimited by artificial grass and a rustic fence. Visitors are welcome to join him, inflate an armchair, or simply practice the fine art of doing nothing.
At the end of the day everything will be removed and carried away. Because of staying there all day we will initiate a pizza delivery at lunchtime.
Justin Time is an artist from Berlin.
Urban space / 7.-28.06.
HERBERGSSALON / 9.06., 08:00 pm
ARTÚR VAN BALEN:
INFLATABLE SPECTACLES. TOOLS FOR ACTION
Why are inflatable objects, which often populate parades in the USA and the Soviet Union, so well adapted as tools for artistic and political actions? Interestingly, their emergence coincides with the Congress of Vagabonds in Stuttgart in 1929. During this workshop, participants will construct inflatable sculptures resembling broadsheets that will be deployed in public.
Artúr van Balen is an artist from the Netherlands.
www.toolsforaction.net
Speech at the opening of the HERBERGE / 7.06., 04:00 pm
Workshop in the HERBERGE and urban space / 14. and 15.06., 11:00 am – 07:00 pm
Registration recommended
AKSELI VIRTANEN:
ROBIN HOOD ASSET MANAGEMENT COOPERATIVE
Robin Hood Investment Bank of the Precariat has opened its first office in Germany. Available to everyone, the office houses the Sharewood crew, which develops tactical and open finance, furthers financial activism, and corrodes the borders of the neoliberal economy. Robin Hood is looking for new members: all are welcome to participate actively or simply observe.
Work agenda published daily: www.robinhoodcoop.org.
Akseli Virtanen is a theorist of political economy. He lives and teaches in Helsinki. Currently he is a juror for Business Sciences at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
ROBIN HOOD ASSET MANAGEMENT COOPERATIVE Akademie Schloss Solitude’s project room at Römerstraße 2 / 9.– 13.06. 10:00 am – 01:00 pm
HERBERGSSALON / 13.06., 08:00 pm
AKSELI VIRTANEN WITH MAURIZIO LAZZARATO, BRIAN MASSUMI, PETER PAL PELBART:
POWER AT THE END OF THE ECONOMY. A ‘N-1’ SEMINAR
‘N-1’ asks after the organization of vagrancy: what is a vagabond organization? How does power function at the end of the economy What means does it have at its disposal for capturing today that which will come tomorrow? How do machines produce value? How is singularity possible when the mechanisms of accumulation do not restrict themselves to concrete actions in a specific place and time, but pervade the molecular, the aleatory, the uncertain, and the indeterminate, all phenomena that are still in the process of becoming?
POWER AT THE END OF THE ECONOMY. A ‘N-1‘ SEMINAR Akademie Schloss Solitude’s project room at Römerstraße 2 / 10. – 13.06. 01:00 – 07:00 pm
AS WE ARE:
DUMPSTER DIVING – WE ARE VAGOBONDS
Poverty, risk, and rents increase. What will Stuttgart look like in 2030? And what will we have to learn between now and then? For the citizen of tomorrow. DUMPSTER DIVING offers a performative walk through the city as a guide to the coming society. It opens a new view on a seemingly well-known quarter around the Marienplatz.
Can one feel at home in a state of homelessness? How do you escape from belonging to a given country? How does one manage in a world of strangers? Two homeless people and a refugee share the skills they have learned in surviving without financial resources as a model for the transformation of the city for the near future.
As We Are (Artùr van Balen, Rebecca Egeling, Christine Borch) together with local experts
South of Stuttgart, meeting point: HERBERGE / 11. – 13.06., 06:00 – 07:30 pm and 09:00 – 10:30 pm
MARCUS BERGMANN (RAEUCHEREI)
Though pursuits that are usually tailored or cooked, Marcus Bergmann deals with common consumption, its origins, and its effects on humans and society.
VAGABUNDENKÜCHE at the opening of the HERBERGE / 7.06., 08:00 pm
ALEX DEMIROVIC:
CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC SPACE
If the future is designed by those who rule the present already through security technologies, knowing full well that the mastery of contingency is potent, the objective for democratic-political agents is to reverse this state of affairs, by democratically expanding the horizon of the future und constructing a long-term view of the world.
Alex Demirovic is Apl. Prof. at the Goethe-Universität, where he just began a guest professorship in Critical Social Theory. At the moment, he is a fellow of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. He is also on the staff of the magazines Prokla und LuXemburg.
VAGABUNDENKÜCHE in the HERBERGE / 12.06., 07:00 pm
YVONNE P. DODERER:
YOUR BOWL, CITY FULL OF VAPOUR; LAYS FUMING BELOW US – A CITY WALK
On our way from the HERBERGE to Killesberg we will examine some aspects of Stuttgart, including its architecture and recent history, with an eye to more general questions regarding the development of cities and their politics, urban culture, and, of course, inhabitants, both seen and unseen, who live and wander downtown.
Born in Stuttgart, Dr. Yvonne P. Doderer is a freelance architect, who has worked for many years on the question of the modern city in regard to room theory, gender studies, and contemporary art. In Stuttgart, she runs the Büro für transdisziplinäre Forschung und Kulturproduktion.
WANDERPREDIGT TO KILLESBERG, meeting point: HERBERGE / 8.06., 12:00 am
GREGORIA GOG:
GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!
WANDERPREDIGT with Gregoria Gog to a morning pint at the highest parking level of Parkhaus Züblin, meeting point: HERBERGE / 22.06., 12:00 am
INSELGRÜN & NEIGHBOURHOOD
MOBILE GARDENS
InselGrün is a collaborative urban-gardening project that occupies a part of the Kulturinsel Stuttgart in a former freight yard in the Bad Cannstatt. Since Fall 2012, herbs, berries, and vegetables have grown in colorful proximity to one another, greening the HERBERGE as well as the neighborhood of the Lehenviertel.
www.facebook.com/Inselgruen
HERBERGE / 7.-28.06.
JOHN JORDAN:
SKYPE-SERMON ABOUT ART ACTIVISM
The press called him ‘magician of rebellion,’ the British police, a ‘native extremist.’ The artistic activist and cofounder of ‘Reclaim the Streets’ (1995-2000) and ‘Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army’ has built a commune that includes a farm and a school for creative resistance in Brittany.
Sermon at the opening of the HERBERGE / 7.06., 04:00 pm
MAURIZIO LAZZARATO:
THE REFUSAL OF WORK
On the occasion of his recent publication, Marcel Duchamp and The Refusal of Work, the Italian sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato discusses refusal and laziness and how life beyond work, the market, and money is worth living. Though his life and work, Duchamp delivers an alternative model that challenges the conditioning and confinement of humans within the working class and critics the discourse of creativity.
In cooperation with the Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart (WKV), the event is part of the project ‘Politik der Form,’ which is sponsered by the European Commission.
WANDERPREDIGT in the garden in front of the ‘Kunstverein’ / 14.06., 2:00 pm
ANNA LIPPHARDT:
SAYING GOODBYE TO THE NOMADIC ARTIST – MOBILE FANTASIES AND MOBILE REALITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Since 2011, Anna Lipphardt has served as Junior Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University Freiburg, where she also leads the research group Cultures of Mobility in Europe (COME).
Speech at the opening of the HERBERGE / 7.06., 04:00 pm
OCCUPY VILLA BERG
Occupy Villa Berg understands itself as a civic platform for the Villa Berg and its park. Over the last year, the initiative has collected and documented the wishes and desires around the empty villa though a series of activities. It has also presented these appeals to the city council. Today Occupy Villa Berg ensures the longevity of attention to the area and stimulates public discussion around its future.
www.occupyvillaberg.de
WANDERPREDIGT TO VILLA BERG, meeting point: HERBERGE / 15.06., 12:00 am
STADTISTEN UND FRIENDS:
DINNER TABLES AND TEMPORARY PLATFORMS
The STAdTISTEN and friends invite you to join them at the dining table as they serve as the exclusive host to 4 to 6 visitors and an international guest of the Congress of Vagabonds.
The dining table becomes a temporary platform for the discourse of tramping. Eat, talk, and silence are all welcomed; you can even paint, draw, and write on the tablecloth. Stains permitted, of course.
VAGABUNDENKÜCHE in private rooms/ 18.06., 07:00 pm
Registration required
KLAUS TRAPPMANN:
LANDSTRASSE, KUNDEN, VAGABUNDEN (1980)
The film transmits the voices of six participants of the historical Congress of Vagabonds (1929). It relays the attempt of the Congress to politicize the plight of the vagabonds and the pervasive condition of homelesnesss during the Great Depression. It also shows the artistic potential of the ‘rural road.’
Screening of the movie in presence of the director Klaus Trappmann at the opening of the HERBERGE / 7.06., 06:00 pm
DIE VERSORGER
Die Versorger is a small communal kitchen in Stuttgart that resulted from the resistance against Stuttgart 21. The kitchen works collaboratively on projects around sustainability, blockupy, the protest of nuclear technology, and the combat of right-wing extremism. To eat, to drink, cold or warm, you will be well nourished here.
www.kurzlink.de/cams21/kochbuch
VAGABUNDENKÜCHE, Ebene0 / Parkhaus Züblin (Car Park), Lazarettstr. 5 / 21.06., 10:00 pm
RAUL ZELIK:
DEMOCRACY AS COMMUNE –
THE RETURN OF POLITICS IN URBAN SPACES
Whether in Spain, the US, Brazil, or in the Arabic world, the longing for ‘real’ democracy pervades places and populates streets. But what is democracy beyond institutions? Does a new form of politic arise here or is it just the rehearsal of classic protests in a new form?
Raul Zelik is a writer, political scientist, and translator. Until 2013, he was Professor of Political Science at the National University of Colombia in Medellín.
DEMOCRACY AS COMMUNE – THE RETURN OF POLITICS IN URBAN SPACE VAGABUNDENKÜCHE in the HERBERGE / 19.06., 07:00 pm
TOBIAS YVES ZINTEL
A cinematic artist from Berlin, Tobias Yves Zintel will be attending the Congress of Vagabonds in order to gather material for a film that interrogates historical and contemporary vagrancy in Stuttgart.
EBENE0:
SUMMER SOLSTICE-CELEBRATION AND MORNING PINT AT THE PARKING LEVEL
The EBENE0 is a project room in the downstairs at Parkhaus Züblin. Here, urbanity is celebrated, but it is also revealed and scrutinized. The highest parking level offers a rooftop garden and a view of downtown.
MIDSUMMER CELEBRATION Ebene0 / Parkhaus Züblin (Car Park), Lazarettstr. 5 / 21.06., 10:00 pm and 22.06., 01:00 pm
FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT:
TRAMPING CELEBRATION
FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT e.V. is a Stuttgart-based platform that facilitates spaces for art and music culture. Though the lobbying of lawmakers, social networks, and cultural development, they raise awareness of the importance of urban alternative scenes.
VAGABUNDIERENDES FEST / 14.06., 10:00 pm
