From Necessity and Love: Trajectories of Communal Possibilities

Urban Subjects

This map was produced for the project Place Internationale by Forum Freies Theater in Düsseldorf, Germany, Septemebr 3 - October 2, 2021.
As city laboratory, Place Internationale explored historical, current and future uprisings and collective action. Starting point was the urban and social revolution of the Paris Commune of 1871.

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From Necessity and Love: Trajectories of Communal Possibilities

Locating the Paris Commune and the Venezuelan experiment in communes as markers in a longer history of communal aspirations, Urban Subjects have designed an image of the tensions, scales, conditions, and trajectories that communes emerge from. Using their discussion with theorist and activist, George Ciccariello-Maher and their experience in Caracas as a basis for this wallpaper, Urban Subjects constructs a visual, textual, and video installation that reconsiders the historical determinations and the potential of the emergence of communes today.

For Place Internationale, Urban Subjects drew links between self-organized projects and territories from Caracas to Düsseldorf and places inbetween. Based on the wallpaper, a filmscreening and discussion with writer and activist Raul Zelik, Urban Subjects ask, How do these various projects in self-organization and the commune speak to each other?