• eviction,  Squatlife,  Tape Modern

    Where to begin after such a time…

    In the last post I said we were trying to find a new building as soon as possible. Well, it didn’t happen soon. The blue building, the one we last moved into, was not good for us. It was big and gorgeous yes, but we couldn’t get running water without a flood, and the electricity situation was a bit precarious to say the least. On top of that, some of the supporting columns were dangerously rotten. Without running water everything felt difficult and our kitchen situation was sad. One can be happy without such luxuries but then you kinda want to be in nature, camping or something. This felt too…

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  • eviction,  Squat Life,  Squatlife

    Evictions

    Tape Modern got evicted. We were aware that it will come soon but the beliefs and security came a week earlier than our sources let us believe, so we were taken off guard. In an ideal world, we would have been ready, reinforced the barricades and knowing where we would move. Alas, we only had a list of possible buildings we could move into, but we had not done our research on them yet. It turned out none of them was viable so we ended up house hunting while part of the crew stood watch for all our gear. In the end, we only spent one night under the sky…

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