<nettime> artistic director of dOCUMENTA 13 welcomes occupy movement

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13),  
welcomes the »occupy« movement and appreciates their ability to care 20
for the spaces they occupy.

»I welcome the »doccupy« movement in Friedrichsplatz, which has grown  
over the last weeks. It continues the wave of democratic protests that  
have been spreading across many cities in the world. It enacts the  
possibility of re-inventing the use of public space and appears to me  
to be in the spirit of the moment and in the spirit of Joseph Beuys  
who marked documenta and its history significantly, embodying another  
idea of collective decision making and political responsibility  
through direct democracy.

With this welcome, I also want to affirm the abilities of the people  
involved to care for the square, and to take responsibility for the  
space that they have the right to occupy, to consider the City of  
Kassel and the other visitors of documenta in a worldly spirit of  
germination and flourishing«.







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