STATISTA
Presentation Week

Venue: Haus der Statistik, Karl-Marx-Allee 1, 10178 Berlin
The complete program of events will be available at www.allesandersplatz.berlin.

Within the vast empty spaces of the Haus der Statistik near Alexanderplatz, STATISTA is testing whether working in the spirit of the Commons is an option even within today’s context of city development. With the aid of ten distinct playing fields, STATISTA generates artistic prototypes for a civil society built on collective principles.

The results of these artistic working processes will be made publicly visible during the STATISTA Presentation Week from September 11–16, 2019: Including neighbourhood initiatives, a cryptocurrency reflecting the wellbeing of bees, a facade design built for ecological inclusivity, and an international conference. Temporary usage, in this case, does not lead to gentrification, but to a form of urban renewal that is to the benefit of all.

STATISTA is a collaboration between ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Artistic directors: Harry Sachs, Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst (ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics)
Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr (KW Institute for Contemporary Art)

Program

11 September 19, from 7 pm

Opening with performances and presentations
7–8 pm, Performance, “Voices – first recording”
Meeting point: Haus A

8.15–9 pm, Project presentations

7.30–8.15 pm, Panel discussion about the Haus der Statistik: Chance und Risiko – Koproduzierte Stadt als Modell für Berlin?
With representatives of the five cooperation partners at Haus der Statistik (Koop5): Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, Berlin-Mitte District Office, WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte mbH, BIM Berliner Immobilienmanagement GmbH, ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG). Language: German
Venue: Haus D

9–9.20 pm / 10–10.20 pm: Audio performance by Schneider TM
Venue: Haus D

12 September 19, 12–10 pm

Musterhaus Day
Non-stop line-ups in Musterhaus der Statistik
Venue: Courtyard
Please consult www.allesandersplatz.berlin and posters for programming and details

13 September 19

Workshops
Venue: Werkstatt Haus der Statistik
Limited space available, registration kindly requested: www.allesandersplatz.berlin
10 am–1 pm, Workshop with Campus in Camps, “Permanent Temporariness”
Language: English

2–5 pm, Workshop with Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, “Outside the White Cube”
Language: English

6–9 pm, Workshop with MACAO, “Designing an Intersectional Ecosystem”
Language: English

14 September 19

STATISTA Conference
10 am–1 pm, Workshop with Nachbarschaftsakademie Prinzessinnengärten, “Under the Pavement – the Soil”
Language: German
Meeting point: Haus D
2–6 pm, STATISTA Conference
Language: English
Venue: Haus D

2 pm, Introduction by curator Tirdad Zolghadr
2.30 pm, ExRotaprint: „Non-profit Development for Work, Art, Communities“
3.15 pm, MACAO: „Radical Finance“
4.30 pm, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise: “Outside the White Cube”
5.15 pm, Campus in Camps: “Permanent Temporariness”

7–9.30 pm, Workshop with Planbude, “Methode Wunschproduktion”
Language: German
Meeting point: Haus D
Limited space available, registration kindly requested: www.allesandersplatz.berlin

15 September 19

STATISTA Conference
10 am–1 pm, Workshop with ExRotaprint, “Non-profit & Big Money”
Language: German
Please note a change in location: ExRotaprint, Gottschedstr. 4,13357 Berlin
Limited space available, registration kindly requested: www.allesandersplatz.berlin

2–9 pm, STATISTA Conference
Language: English
Venue: Haus D
2 pm, Planbude, “Methode Wunschproduktion”
3 pm, Nachbarschaftsakademie Prinzessinnengärten, “Under the Pavement – the Soil“
4.15 pm, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, “The Total Work of the Cultural Institution”
5 pm, Chto Delat, “Houses of Culture”
5.45 Uhr, ruangrupa, “_Siasat(ISTA)_”
7 pm, concluding discussion

16 September 19

Workshops

Language: English
Venue: Werkstatt Haus der Statistik
Limited space available, registration kindly requested: www.allesandersplatz.berlin

10 am–1 pm, Workshop with Chto Delat, “Houses of Culture: cultural models based on principles of comradeship”
2–5 pm, Workshop with Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, “How to Work Together? Solidarity in Light of Its Relation to the Institution”
6–9 pm, Workshop with ruangrupa, “_Siasat(ISTA)_”

Part of project: STATISTA
2019

In September 2015, the Allianz bedrohter Berliner Atelierhäuser proclaimed the establishment of a center for sociocultural activities on a banner positioned on the façade of the Berlin Haus der Statistik (HdS). Since then, this art intervention has become urban policy. A cooperation between ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik and KW has led to the project STATISTA. Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, and Harry Sachs, the artistic directors of ZK/U and the curator Tirdad Zolghadr, associate curator at KW, aimed to consolidate, accelerate, support and propagate the processes under way at the HdS. Partners included Economic Space Agency (ECSA), KUNSTrePUBLIK, Bernadette La Hengst, Labor k3000, Moabees, openBerlin, Penny Rafferty, raumlabor, and others.

The HdS was built 1968–70 and served as the headquarters of the GDR’s central bureau of statistics. After the reunification, it housed the Federal Statistical Office of Germany and the Stasi Records Agency. Today, the building near Alexanderplatz is a unique project, in which a broad coalition of urban stakeholders define a pioneering location for urban development: 100.000 sqm in the heart of the city will provide space for culture, social projects, education, affordable housing, a new city hall, and administrative buildings.

STATISTA proposed artistic prototypes for a civil society built in the spirit of the Commons, in ten different playing fields, including a cryptocurrency based on the wellbeing of bee-populations, ecologically inclusive facade designs, interfaces for neighbourhood participation and an international conference in the Fall. Temporary usage, in this case, does not lead to gentrification, but to a form of urban renewal to the benefit of all—a Statecraft of the future.

www.allesandersplatz.berlin

Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr, Associate Curator of KW
Artistic directors: Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Harry Sachs, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik