CANNIBAL CITY Screening and talk by ADELITA HUSNI-BEY 14 May 19h at **Casa dos Amigos do Minho ** Gentrification, Real Estate speculation, draconian eviction and anti-squatting laws have profoundly altered the way we live in cities, what we are allowed to do with space and how; prompting the question: whose space is it? Can citizens claim a right to unused buildings and land? Why is property more important than the lives that dwell within it? From 2007 Adelita Husni-Bey has been producing works that deal with these questions, strategies and methods ranging from workshops to radio shows, publications and archives as practical tools for dissent. Ard (Land) is a film of a workshop held by Cairo activists and the artist to rethink policy and the threat of mega-projects in the city, White Paper: The Law, addresses the current anti-squatting legislation in the Netherlands through writing a functional convention for the ‘use of space’ and the Clays Lane Live Archive upholds the dissident memory of a housing cooperative demolished to make way for the 2012 London Olympics. In this screening and talk we will be engaged in discussing the methodologies, their effects, successes and failures, as well as re-thinking and integrating how these tools could be useful in the city of Lisbon. _ Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and a researcher whose practice involves the analysis and counter-representation of hegemonic ideologies in contemporary Western societies. Recent projects have also focused on re-thinking radical pedagogical models within the framework of anarco-collectivist studies. Solo shows include: White Paper: The Land, Beirut (in Cairo), 2014, Playing Truant, Gasworks, 2012,The Green Mountain, ViaFarini/DOCVA, 2010. She has participated in Really Useful Knowledge, Reina Sofia museum, 2014, Utopia for Sale?, MAXXI museum, 2014, Jens, Hordeland Kunstsenter, 2013, Meeting Points 7, MuKHa, 2013, 0 Degree Performance, Moscow Biennial 2013, Mental Furniture Industry, Flat time House, 2013, TRACK, S.M.A.K museum, 2012, Right to Refusal, 2012, Bregenz Kunstverein. She has recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and will be presenting chapter II of ‘White Paper’, a project based on the analysis of the changing face of legislation in relationship to private ownership, at Casco (Office for Design Art and Theory), in the spring of 2015. Address: Casa dos Amigos do Minho Rua Benformoso 244, 1ºandar, Lisboa More info: www.thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.com This event is part of the RES project "Residences for young curators and programmers" organised by the Foundation Adolfo Pini, in tutorship with Peep-Hole and hosted the FDV Residency. RES "residences for young curators and programmers" is a project created and supported by the Foundation Adolfo Pini promoting new international collaborations with the city of Milan.
