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Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft - by Sara

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)

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...