REALTY: Press Release
<p>KW Institute for Contemporary Art announces REALTY⎯an attempt to get the better of gentrification.</p> <p>The long-term project REALTY focuses on the role of contemporary art in the recent history of gentrification. Rather than illustrate art’s failures once again, the project asks how contemporary art can be used to better effect. REALTY insists on long-term strategies and goals as a basis for concrete proposals—whether this takes the form of an educational blueprint, a legal proposal, or a pooling of resources into some new structure altogether. Whatever the result, contemporary art’s appetite for subtlety should make way for a collective shot at solutions, however vague or naive…</p>
Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Sommerakademie Paul Klee
Part of: REALTY