Hamburger Community Residency
Running from March 2024 to March 2025, Roodkapje’s Hamburger Community is a year long multidisciplinary art residency, held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Roodkapje invited five interdisciplinary artists to form a (temporary) collective in residence. Together we developed multiple public moments within Roodkapje’s program.
The trajectory’s main focus in 2024 was the Happening as an artform to collectively re-imagine, reshape and organize our lives and practices as artists. With an ever-curious spirit, we dived into what meaning and possibilities we can foster by approaching the Happening in the contemporary context. The residency highly encouraged us to experiment and try out ideas directly with the public and engage with different audiences.
Some of the themes we organized our happenings around are political activism, gentrification, playing as a tool for collective care, community building, economic injustice, the Palestinian liberation cause, queer rights and climate change.
Our approach included practices of improvsation and participatory activities with the audience, in the spirit of the heritage of the Happening and the Fluxus movement.
We organized a total of 8 Happenings through the year. Click on the poster to be redireceted to the Roodkapje’s website with more information:
The members of the 2024-25 year’s residency were:
Irene Cassarini, Julia Wilhelm, M.C. Julie Yu, Repelsteeltje and Tisa World
“Picture the new residents as plants of different sizes, shapes, and needs, all uprooted from their native ecosystems, repotted into the fertile soil of the Hamburger Community greenhouse. Which shape will their symbiotic co-existence take? How to improve the conditions for them to bloom? How will they change with the seasons? Over the coming year, they plan on growing a resilient network of roots that distributes nutrients beyond the walls of the cultural greenhouse. Their imagination will germinate speculative realities, seed encounters for (un)learning, sprout fertile actions in public space, and cross-pollinate amongst their communities.”
PHOTOS FROM THE PUBLIC HAPPENINGS:
