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Gruppe Audionomix

Collaboration with Dieter Sitzmann. We formed the group in the mid-80s by sticking a manifesto on the streets in the neighborhood of the Munich Art Academy. Gruppe Audionomix fostered media activism with a focus on art and sound.

 Alle A. in der Aalfabrik, Dachau

Free Class of Munich - Freie Klasse München

 Freie Klasse Rettet Europa - The Free Class Rescues Europe!

Collaboration with Thomas Demand (till 1994) Wolfgang Groh, Hermann Hiller, Wilhelm Koch, Gottfried Weber-Jobe et al.

Homepage of the Free Class of Munich

For further information about the movement of the Free Classes, please see: Wikipedia: Freie Klasse (German).

JOUR FIX

Hermann Hiller and I started the JOUR FIX 1991 - a series of quick, not fixed, shows - just the opening without staging an ongoing exhibition. The invitation was regularly made by stamped file cards, the locations were floating from cold cellars, nice gardens, bars, hotel suites to art spaces and back, and also the issues were changing, yet mostly performatively dealing with the current space we used. JOUR FIX was an open project with a lot of contributors and supporters. JOUR FIX intended to collaborate with different areas: artists, architects, urban researchers and other theorists, actors, bartenders, musicians and DJs or political activists.

 JOUR FIX - invitation stamps

No One Is Illegal - kein mensch ist illegal

In the mid-90s i got involved in the group [ueber die grenze], later called [Cross the Border], which was fostering activities against racism.

 [Cross the Border]: Public Performance on Munich's Marienplatz - against racist regulations concerning asylum seekers: Public Hearing  [Cross the Border]: Public Performance on Munich's Marienplatz - against racist regulations concerning asylum seekers: Public-opinion poll

kein mensch ist illegal - No One Is Illegal was started at the Hybrid Workspace of documenta X, where [Cross the Border] set up first infrastructures together with other activists and artists from German cities, from abroad, especially French Sans Papiers: Mailing-list, video, radio, exhibitions. In the Kassel Orangery we also released the Appeal No One Is Illegal.

 Start of no one is illegal at documentaX

kein mensch ist illegal - No One Is Illegal merged the opportunities of esthetic operations with political activism and the ideas of the open source movement. The campaign had no headquarters, but from time to time federal meetings with open access. In the end-90s the federal meetings were together with the federal meetings of the Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants

 Federal Meeting of No One Is Illegal at Academy of Fine Arts in Munich 1999

We also started a series of (no) border camps and discussed the boundaries of art and politics in some shows:

 Grenzcamp - (No) Border Camp Rothenburg 1998  (No) Border Camp Rothenburg 1998 CampRadio

 Wintercamp, Mille Plateau, Volksbuehne, Berlin 1999

 Die Kunst der Kampagne - The Art of Campaining, Oberwelt, Stuttgart

For further information please see Wikipedia: kein mensch ist illegal - no one is illegal (German version) - For English version, please click: Wikipedia: no border network.

schleuser.net

I started schleuser.net first as schlepper.com - a faked pressure group for the business of undocumented mobiliy - together with [Cross the Border]. But when [Cross the Border] had come apart, Farida Heuck, Manuela Unverdorben and I continued with schleuser.net

 Bundesverband Schleppen und Schleusen - Federal Association for Undocumented Mobility  schleuser.net, 1st International Conference of Human Traffickers, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

Homepage schleuser.net

radiostudio.org

radiostudio.org was a collaborative platform for radio art and radio related netart and activism. radiostudio.org operated an M2M-media for audio streaming (sometimes also video), first ogg and real, later on mp3 in different bandwidths.

 Screenshot radiostudio.org  Screenshot radiostudio.org

There is still a mailing list: studio-b11(at)radiostudio.org or alternative adress: studio-b11(at)googlegroups.com See also: Experimental Radio and Teaching

As a brief documentary: radiostudio.org

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A draft which may achieve a feasible radiostudio.org follow-up.

Imaginary Border Academy

 Imaginary Border Academy - Wallpaper by Ralf Homann

The Imaginary Border Academy (L'Académie de la frontière imaginaire) was initiated at the third Artivistic gathering in Montreal, 25-27 October, 2007. It is our aim to provide copyleft pedagogical resources for engaging all forms of borders.

Imaginary Border Academy Homepage

The Better Think Tank Project

 Capitalist Ball formerly known as Liberty Ball formerly known as Capitalist Ball

The Better Think Tank Project is a collaboration with Manuela Unverdorben, dealing with the conditions of cognitive capitalism and to think about think tanks.

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