[spectre] Book launch/Talk: Trading Cultures | 10 March 2011, 19.30 pm

[Open Space]

*Open Space, Open Systems* cordially invites you to the launch of ‘Netzwerk
Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt’ and ‘Informal
Market Worlds’

Edited by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

Location:
Open Space, Open Systems

Thursday, 10 March 2011, 7.30 pm

*Trading Cultures*

So-called social revolutions are unsettling the established political order
in many different pockets of the world. We watch a wave of change, where a
seemingly unhindered expansion of trade in new technologies and commodities
connects with a new range of social relations. Self-organisation, social
networks, transnationalism are all buzzwords that circulate these
transformations, but in what ways exactly do our own everyday realities
forge links with these sites of multiple trans-action? And, in the spirit of
Open Systems, what other models of socio-political organisation might these
experiences of transversal movements inspire us to?

Gulsen Bal, director of Open Space, Open Systems will discuss these and
related questions in conversation with Peter Mörtenböck and Helge
Mooshammer, researchers at the Institute of Art and Design, TU Vienna, to
celebrate the joint launch of *Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in
einer globalisierten Welt*, the most recent publication of their ‘*Networked
Cultures*’ project, and of the online atlas* Informal Market Worlds*,
marking the beginning of their new project ‘*Other Markets*’.

‘*Networked Cultures*’ was initiated at Goldsmiths College, London in 2005
and investigates contemporary cultural transformations through examining the
potentials and effects of networked practices. Collaborating with art,
architectural and urban practices across Europe and beyond it explores
platforms of agency in which the cultural relations have become key in
negotiating a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across
institutional, social or geographic boundaries.
www.networkedcultures.org


‘*Other Markets*’ expands these explorations into networked ecologies
through collaborative fieldwork on informal markets around the world.
Conceived as a working tool, the atlas ‘Informal Market Worlds’ will
comprise multi-level analyses into the ways informal markets yield
adaptations to the use of territorial, social and legal resources. It aims
to conceptualise the emerging paradigm of ‘trans-urbanisation’ – how a
transnational transfer of politics, values and ideas into the realm of urban
action provokes new forms of latitudinal civic engagement.
www.othermarkets.org (online from 10 March 2011)

For enquiries please contact: helge.mooshammer at tuwien.ac.at

Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer: Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der
Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2010
ISBN 978-3-8376-1356-8

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