REALTYCOOP2017

The – end the end successful – attempt of “Building an unowned Property” to turn an ordinary real estate into “recent cultural object” and “immovable monument” is based on the two following laws: Granada Convention for the Protection of Architectural Heritage of Europe , from 1985, which was ratified by Greek Law 2039/1992 ( http://www.unesco.org/culture/natlaws/media/pdf/greece/gre_law2039_1992_granadaconv_greorof ) and the Greek Law 3028/2002 entitled On the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General (https://norwinst.w.uib.no/files/2017/03/Antiquities-Law-of-Greece_3028en.pdf) It is the later one that plays an important role, as the Granada Convention mainly lays out the general framework and idea of protecting architectural heritage (its importance in city planing, education, quality of life etc. etc.) , but also states that ideas and intentions are subject to means specific to each state or reagion. ( project proposal  and Letter to the Cultural M...

Research Summary regarding other Legislations on properties as Culture Heritage: My research was to follow the  Legislations  that Maria Eichhorn used to be able to create the unowned property and to see if this can be replicated elsewhere. The general statement of the presentation was that  it is replicable in many other countries , as such laws are not unique to the Greek legislation.  The main point in her work was to be able to declare the house as a monument protected under article 6 Law 3028\2002, which was granted by the ministerial decision number 43359\2008. The house was declared as a contemporary cultural monument for its use in Documenta 14. In the Netherlands case : under the Monuments and Historical Buildings Act of 1988 and the Heritage Preservation act, a monument is defined as: “ objects that have been created at least fifty years ago and that are of public interests due to their beauty, scientific \academic relevan...

PART A I aim to clarify the different approaches to property and ownership in Maria Eichhorn’s practice, with a view to discussing our potential intervention in Athens. How might the concept of ownership be understood and troubled through Eichhorn’s work? I will trace the various conceptions of ownerships she explores in The Politics of Restitution of 2003 before moving to The Rose Valland Institute and Building as Unowned Property , the latter two recently executed for Documenta 14. Both The Politics of Restitution and The Rose Valland Institute focus on the restoration of ownership , on establishing provenance through art historical research, workshops, seminars and making the objects under question public through exhibition display. By contrast , Building as Unowned Property attempts to negate, or at least strain, private ownership , by taking the building out of the housing market, rendering it a monument under Greek law that prohibits use (unless applications are filed and gra...

Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft - a work by Maria Eichhorn - 2002 The Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft is a joint-stock / public limited company, registered in Berlin under the German Law.   WHAT IS A PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY: the purest form of corporation . Its capital is made of shares and the company assets alone are liable to claims by creditors. Peculiarities: -limited liability of the shareholders; -fixed initial capital; -organization as a corporation: a legal person (a company or a group of people authorized to act a single legal person) with a subscribed capital (minimum 50,000, the value of the tied assets); -the members are exempted from personal liability. It is a production and trading undertaking. Its primary interest is to profit by increasing capital through its shares. The Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 2002, on occasion of Documenta11, borrowing from Documenta the initial 50.000 euros tied assets.   The compan...

Research brief by Luca Carboni: A/B I did not present anything last month and I'm preparing a dense research on these topics: –overview of the neighborhoods of central Athens and their history/peculiarities; –overview of the processes of gentrification in different areas of the city centre; –effects of the planned and executed urban renewal processes on the social and political processes in the city; –overview of the different interests in governing the emergence out of the crisis; –production of an online map-tool for the (internal) presenattion and sharing of the results, that can also serve as a platform to share and integrate our researches; In general the goal of my presentation will be the one of providing the group with a base for understanding the current situation of the city in terms of urban, social and political transformations during the economic crisis, the context in which documenta14 landed; in the coming weeks I will integrate and expand to research. So ...

Film ‘Enterprise Shelter’ (1982) brings us to Amsterdam of the 80s where we witness the life and poor living conditions of recently arrived from Suriname groups of migrants. One of the central character of the film is a private house owner who rents houses to migrants with low or no income. He receives from the government unemployment support of his tenants in order to cover the rent expenses. The rest of the unemployment support goes to migrants but quite some sums are lost on the way and end up in pockets of this middleman - the private house owner. As plot unfolds film director and activist Andre Reeder visits houses of Suriname migrants that really look like shelters, interviews and films the house owner during his business or leaser time and conducts interviews with city representatives that manage housing and financial support of migrants. In ‘Enterprise Shelter’ Andre Reeder managed to unwrap a complicated knot when private housing sector representative can find...