• 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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  • Squat Life,  Tape Modern

    Up and Running

    As I mentioned in my last post, Origins part 2, the squat was too precarious an environment to realise modestly ambitious how we had planned it. I was not sad about it. On the contrary, I felt I found something that was even better for me in this time and place. Not all of us agreed though and after some conversation, we came to the conclusion that we had very different needs for studios due to the nature of our practices and therefore trying to find a studio together didn’t seem very meaningful. Modestly ambitious became a frame work for other art activities and Sophia and I decided to stay…

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