Ausstellung & Veranstaltung an der Mattenstrasse:

Jürgen Buchinger
Zur Wohnungsfrage: Eine Odyssee

2020, videoinstallation with large-format projection and 3-channel HD video, 14 min., 18 min., 463 min. and 12 min,

Öffnungszeiten:
Dienstag, 3.11. bis Freitag, 6.11.
Jeweils zwischen 17 und 20 Uhr

Dienstag, 3.11., 19.30 - 21 Uhr
Ateliergespräch mit Jürgen Buchinger

Ort:
Mattenstrasse 74/76, 4058 Basel Werkstatt im Innenhof (zuhinterst links)

Selbstverständlich gilt Maskenpflicht, bei Ausstellung sowie Ateliergespräch.

Die Ausstellung findet statt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Zeitschrift Widerspruch, anlässlich des Erscheinens von Heft 75: Enteignen fürs Gemeinwohl. Heft vor Ort erhältlich oder auf: http://www.widerspruch.ch

Zur Wohnungsfrage: Eine Odyssee

2020, installation with large-format projection and 3-channel HD video, 14 min., 18 min., 463 min. and 12 min,
The Housing Question: An Odyssey is a video installation about contemporary urban living, the right to housing
and the urban housing market. The work deals with the privatization of our cities and the resulting gentrification processes, that more and more divide cities along monetary fault lines and class differences.

Viewers go on a journey with the artist, starting from a house in Basel, the tenants of which had to move out to make room for redevelopment, to discover the financial entanglements of the owners of the house which lead to a refugee camp in Burkina Faso where Doctors without Bor- ders is helping internally displaced persons.

The work encourages viewers to think about their own living situation and introduces tools for research and resistance to affected persons. It points to the concrete hardships of our current housing market, gentrification and the microphysics of power that prevail between landlords, tenants and real estate investors. It also reflects on the philosophical question of what dwelling is for us today and how we can think anew our relationship to the spaces we inhabit.