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For the Record: On the Politics of Music Video Culture

For the Record is the outcome of a public research initiative conducted through location-based and live formats by Het Nieuwe Instituut and a large number of collaborators. For over three years, the project investigated how contemporary music video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and emancipation, by exposing existing realities and by imagining alternatives. In order to do so, For the Record documented and reflected upon the technologies, spatial design and forms of representation deployed in music videos and live events, using public programmes, video production and tools for annotation as its main methodologies.

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Architecture of Appropriation: On Squatting as Spatial Practice

Architecture of Appropriation. On Squatting as Spatial Practice acknowledges squatting as an architectural practice. The publication analyzes a series of case studies through architectural drawings, interviews, and archival material to build up a record of past and current struggles, spaces, and oral histories, forming the basis for a new acquisition policy for the State Archive for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. The project brings the expertise of the squatting movement together with architects, archivists, scholars, and lawyers, to discuss approaches to the research, archival practices and representation of precarious, non-author-based, and often criminalized spatial practices in the institutional framework of an archive and museum. Co-edited with René Boer and Marina Otero Verzier. Published by Het NIeuwe Instituut.

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