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In this hour we are present at the salon from 9th November 2019: "Bending Your Back Like This."

We'll talk about the rapid increase of housing prices, the subsequent displacement of people and the compaction of living spaces. Instead of looking at the structural change of cities, we will leave the birds-eye perspective and, through different artist practices, look at how our personal bodies are interconnected with the urban environment they are situated in. Through shared experiences, public discussion and physical exercises, we will examine the spacial adjustability of the human body as a metaphor for the housing-crises we are facing today. We will look at the video works of Goeun Bae (South-Korea) and Ling-Yu He (Taiwan). Both use the means of the human body to sketch out the boundaries of private and shared space. Furthermore we will talk with the artist Carsten Lisecki and architect Monika Konrad about their practices related to the topic. The salon takes place at ABA's temporary project space situated at the Haus der Statistik.

This event was kindly supported by Berliner Senat für Kultur und Europa.

ABA Air SALON is a radio format produced by Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Berlin based artist initiative dealing with the distribution and documentation of forms of collective and experimental knowledge production. The broadcasts come from different locations in Berlin where we organize salons. At these salons we meet with local actors, artists, scientists and other cultural producers to exchange around research based artistic projects and practices. You can find more information about our program at www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de

ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) e.V., is a research-oriented artists' initiative founded in Berlin in 2009 by the artists Susanne Kriemann & Aleksander Komarov. The programme focuses on ephemeral artistic research and collective and experimental knowledge production. ABA’s operations consist of the conception, curation and implementation of various presentational formats: The organization of salons in different locations acros the city, the release of publications, the stewardship of a residency-program and the maintenance of a website as a central place for documentation and achivation of these forms of ephmeral knowledge production.