Theorists and artists ask: how can art ends its complicity with
gentrification?
Based on a long-term
program led by KW Berlin curator and writer Tirdad Zolghadr, Realty
promotes strategies to overcome contemporary art's complicity with
gentrification, and to instead put the massive leverage and wealth
now circulating in the art industry to positive use. With the help of
numerous artists and experts who have contributed to Zolghadr's
program between 2017 and 2020, this reader examines how contemporary
art can contribute to decisive conversations on urbanism. The book
thereby eschews the rabbit hole of infinite critique that typically
dogs this subject, in favor of presenting ideas for practical
positive change.
Contributors
include: Marwa Arsanios, Khaldun Bshara, Laura Calbet Elias, Marco
Clausen, Simone Hain, Maria Hetzer, Sabine Horlitz, Suhail Malik,
Bahar Noorizadeh, Marion von Osten, Kristel Raesaar, Penny Rafferty,
Christopher Roth, Katya Sander and Paul Seidler.