Interviews & Materials on "Durchlöchert den Status Quo!"

Ein paar Materialien zu unserem Buch "Durchlöchert den Status Quo!" sind in den letzten Tagen erschienen:

• eine Besprechung im Deutschlandfunk im Magazin "Andruck - Das Magazin für politische Literatur"
• ein Interview mit der Freien Presse unter dem Titel "Die Kunst des 'Ja': Wie Wandel gelingen könnte" - dieses Interview befindet sich leider hinter einer Paywall. Per Emailanfrage sende ich gerne das gesamte Interview zu.
• eine kleine Rezension im Magazin "Contraste - Zeitung für Selbstorganisation"

"Pour une culture de l’écologie joyeuse. Réflexions sur des nouvelles institutions culturelles pour nos luttes" @ Journal de Democratie et Culture

Together with the formidable collective -h- I have written a text about one of my upcoming projects that occupy me the most these days: the creation of social spaces to enable other feelings in times of climate demise and ritualistic approaches to other forms of being. Together with -h-, who are part of the Cellule d'Action Rituelle of the zad nddl, we have written this text comparing & introducing the 17th of January on the zad (the day the cancellation of the airport is celebrated) with the upcoming Zwentendorf-Holiday in Austria - a project we will do for the first time on the 5th of November. 

The text is written in French, but I have a crude English translation available. Drop me an email if you want to read that one (or have ideas where we could publish it :)

The French original can be found here or in (free!) print in Belgium and France. 

https://www.cultureetdemocratie.be/articles/pour-une-culture-de-lecologie-joyeuse-reflexions-sur-des-nouvelles-institutions-culturelles-pour-nos-luttes/

CARS WE LIKE Part 2 @ Chemnitz, 3000 Garagen

After our building phase in late June & early July we from the FuturamaLab are on our way back to Chemnitz to ride around town with our CAR(s) WE LIKE as part of the 3000 Garagen Project of the European Cultural Capital Initiative. We are very much looking forwad to this collaboration with the ConstuctLab! 

 

THE CARS WE LIKE

A humorous exploration of the future of the car

THE CARS WE LIKE is an art project that re-uses and re-purposes materials to construct vehicles through a variety of building techniques. Situated at the crossroads of art, technology, and urbanism, these mobile objects playfully undermine prevailing conventional concepts of urban mobility. Appearing in traffic as absurd and dadaistic vehicles, they humorously question the ways we move through our cities.

During a live building performance from June 28 to July 5, 2025, a human-powered truck was created with the collaboration of Michelle Grünberg, Carlos Kämpfe, and Tim Ellinger (trainees from the VW plant Chemnitz).

As part of THE SCHOOL OF GARAGE* (August 24–31, 2025), this truck will be technically refined together with workshop participants to take on diverse logistical tasks. In a series of street interventions, goods, metaphors, people, and ideas will be transported between the nine garages, creating a functional connection between these temporary studios and their artists.

The workshop will be accompanied by the collective -h- of the Cellule d'Action Rituelle (Cell for Ritual Action) of the ZAD NDDL - the biggest occupied zone in Europe. They will help us reflect on the relation of territoriality, capitalism and mobility and devise queer-ritualistic approaches with us that we will present on the 30th of August.

Our vehicle will be on display again in the Garagen Campus of the European Cultural Capital Chemnitz 2025 from September until end of November.



A project by FUTURAMA°LAB for “Chemnitz 2025 . European Capital of Culture”
Part of “THE SCHOOL OF GARAGE” by “Constructlab.Berlin” & “#3000Garages”

Artists: Kilian Jörg . Hanna Priemetzhofer . Rainer Prohaska
Format: Workshop . Exhibition . Performance
Duration Workshop & Performance: 25.–30.08.2025
Duration Exhibition: 28.06.–29.11.2025

Location: Garagen Campus . Zwickauer Str. 164 . 09116 Chemnitz . DE


PROGRAM “THE CARS WE LIKE” @ Garagen Campus
25.–30.08. Daily: THE CARS WE LIKE . Activities
25.08. 18:00 Public Keynotes
30.08. 16:30 Public Presentations . Guests: ”collective -h-”
28.06.–29.11.2025 Part of #3000-Garages – The Exhibition

Part of the FUTURAMA°DAYS 2025




SUPPORTED BY

Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025

"Auto-destruction - Pourquoi la voiture détruit le monde (et comment arrêter ça)" - French translation of my car-book now published!

It is such a great honor to have the French translation of my book on the car ("Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe") in my hands. In French, everything seems more radical and cool, even my own writing - and it is so wonderful that formidable Editions Wildproject have decided to keep my initial title for the book (that was refused as too unclear by my German editors - no bad feelings ;)

I am in the ZAD Notre-Dame-des-Landes right now and will present the book for the first time here, in the Talsu, next Wednesday the 20th of August at 19h. This will be followed by a three day workshop on post-fossil mobility I am designing with the wonderful collective -h- called "vroum vroum autocritique" - find all the information here.

Below you can find the description text of my book and a link to the homepage, where you can find a pdf excerpt and several other materials.

La voiture a beau être l’un des principaux agents de destruction de la vie sur Terre, elle a beau tuer un million d’êtres humains par an dans le monde, rien ne semble défaire notre amour pour elle, ni notre dépendance structurelle vis-à-vis de ses promesses – confort, rapidité, praticité, élégance. Elle constitue, depuis bientôt un siècle, la clef de voûte de notre organisation spatiale, sociale et affective.

Il est plus que temps d’analyser notre relation toxique avec elle, de se libérer de ses séductions factices et coûteuses, et de mettre un terme aux ravages planétaires qu’elle entraîne.

Ancien petit garçon amoureux des voitures, Kilian Jörg explore ici la façon dont la bagnole informe l’idée que nous nous faisons de la « liberté », de la « normalité », de la « raison » et de la « nature » – au point de devenir l’objet emblématique de l’hybris capitaliste et de transformer chacun de nous en micro-fasciste.

Dialoguant avec Beyoncé et Baudrillard, Descola et Batman, le philosophe nous emporte dans des montagnes russes à travers la culture pop, la masculinité fasciste, l’hégémonie du pétrole et du béton, les parcs nationaux, les occupations de terres par des militants, pour nous emmener vers des mondes sans voitures et pleins de vie.

Mieux encore qu’un « livre noir » : l’analyse de notre relation toxique avec la bagnole

--> https://wildproject.org/livres/auto-destruction