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Political conflicts, humanitarian disasters, wars and migrations – we live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. While official reactions consist in the search for means of stabilization and restraint, the dynamics of deregulation are giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel lives.

This book offers an insight into the complex spatial and social realities of globalization, from city-like informal markets in Moscow and the post-war self-urbanization in Kosovo to the border economies of the Mediterranean and the parallel worlds of today’s burgeoning megacities.

In this state of uncertainties, networks have become the most powerful tool in how we organize our lives. The emerging struggle between network formations produces a space that is both fragmented and contested, yet testifies to the creativity of ist inhabitants. As a result, our cities have become topologies of overlapping realities and narratives as much as they are geographical entities.

Networked Cultures traces these conflictual negotiations in dialogue with artists, architects, curators and theorists whose work explores possibilities for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries. Their shared knowledge and accompanying case studies provide stirring insights as well as imaginative encounters with a world of networks – our world.

Editors: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

With texts by Adrian Blackwell, Marina Grzinic, Irit Rogoff and AbdouMaliq Simone, and conversations with Ozge Acıkkol, Azra Akšamija, Ayreen Anastas, Ricardo Basbaum, Helmut Batista, Jochen Becker, Matei Bejenaru, Ursula Biemann, Sylvie Blocher, Stefano Boeri, Katherine Carl, Sarah Carrington, Branka Curčic, Francois Daune, Igor Dobricic, Ana Dzokic, Joan Escofet, Jesko Fezer, Asya Filippova, Rene Gabri, Iacopo Gallico, Sophie Hope, Nataša Ilic, Guven Incirlioglu, Katrin Klingan, Vasıf Kortun, Erden Kosova, Olga Lopoukhova, Margarethe Makovec, Marc Neelen, Philipp Oswalt, Kyong Park, Marta Paz, Constantin Petcou, Tadej Pogačar, Poka-Yio, Marjetica Potrc, Gerald Raunig, Oliver Ressler, Josep Saldana, Marko Sancanin, Gunes Savas, Florian Schneider, Despoina Sevasti, Pablo de Soto, Srdjan J. Weiss, Eyal Weizman, Secil Yersel and Claudia Zanfi

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INTRO

Contents

Connectivities 7
Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer

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SECTION 1

Network Creativity 13
Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer

Interviews 28
Margarethe Makovec, Natasa Ilic, Gerald Raunig, Katrin Klingan

Borderline Cases 36
Windsor/Detroit

Unbounded 46
Irit Rogoff

Interviews 52
Kyong Park, Srdjan J. Weiss, Branka Curčic

Extended Enterprises 60
Moscow

Interviews 64
Olga Lopoukhova, Straddle3

Forums of Culture 69
Barcelona

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SECTION 2

Contested Spac es 75
Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer

Interviews 88
Claudia Zanfi, Ursula Biemann, Philipp Oswalt

Slatewalls 97
Chinese Markets

Casting Nets 100
Adrian Blackwell

Les Olympiades 110
Paris

Interviews 112
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Eyal Weizman, Erden Kosova

Metro City 124
Istanbul

Interviews 130
Despoina Sevasti and Poka-Yio, Stefano Boeri, Pablo de Soto

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SECTION 3

Trading Places 141
Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer
Arizona Market 164
Brčko

Interviews 174
B+B, Matei Bejenaru, Helmut Batista, Asya Filippova, Oliver Ressler

Transient Traffic 186
Istanbul Topkapı

Visiting Stalin 192
Moscow Izmailovo

The politics of ‘cityness’ and a world of deals 202
AbdouMaliq Simone

Thank You USA 210
Prishtina

Interviews 219
Marjetica Potrc, xurban, Jesko Fezer, Tadej Pogačar

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SECTION 4

Gunners & Runners 232
London

Parallel Worlds 241
Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer

Interviews 256
STEALTH, aaa, Igor Dobricic

Parallel Worlds 265
Marina Grzinic

Interviews 271
Campement Urbain, Vasıf Kortun, Jochen Becker, Marko Sancanin

Conversions 282
Berlin

Interviews 288
Oda Projesi, Iacopo Gallico, Ricardo Basbaum

Horizons 297
Rio de Janeiro

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CREDITS

Biographies 306
Index 315
Credits 318