Rentals, Experiences, Places
Venue: Musée Grobet-Labadié, Parc Longchamp
Satellites: Bel Horizon
28 August – 29 November 2020
Satellites: Hôtel Dieu Intercontinental
25 September– 29 November 2020
In an age of mass migration caused by climate change, war, totalitarian regimes, genocide and gentrification, housing has become one of the major global challenges. For too many, it has become increasingly difficult to find a safe place to live, and virtually impossible to own a home. Yet having a home, or just a safe place, is the precondition for rehearsing new forms of communality, equality, care and indeed love.
In Marseille, the consequences of the global housing crisis are clear and present. Nonetheless, over the last decades numerous local associations have been working toward better living conditions and increased rights for inhabitants and migrants. Thus, the idea of home is constantly being renegotiated at the crossroads between displacement and belonging.
Musée Grobet-Labadié is one of many historic bourgeois homes that were transformed into a museum in the hope of giving us a clearer idea of “our” social history. It is a powerful political time machine that immerses you in a life lived at different times, in a home different to your own. But could this time machine also help us see a different past and envision a more communal future? Can it be repurposed to generate a more collaborative plan?
Participants: Black Quantum Futurism* (Collective, US), Martine Derain* (1960, FR), Lukas Duwenhögger (1956, DE), Jana Euler (1982, DE), Ken Okiishi*(1968, US), Cameron Rowland (1988, US), Reena Spaulings , Arseny Zhilyaev*(1984, RU/IT), Samia Henni* (1980, DZ/CH), Noailles Debout (Collective, FR).
The threads of this plot are woven throughout the city: Bel Horizon residential condominium at the entrance to the northern neighbourhoods and the hotel Hôtel Dieu Intercontinental.
