For a week, we set up our camp in the Ladøns gallery. Through a large shop window, we made our everyday collective work of sustaining life together visible, in a place explicitly used for the exhibition of art. Our working and living conditions have repeatedly served as a starting point for collaborative projects. We have already opened living spaces for exhibitions twice. In doing so, we confronted the expectations of an exhibition space that could not be met through temporary reutilization. We endured the fact that our objects were not placed on a reservedly gray-painted floor but on scratched laminate. Stripped walls revealed traces of craftsmen among our photographs, and sanitary facilities inspired interventions.
With our project, we transformed the Ladøns gallery into a living space and developed a needs-oriented spatial concept. We jointly formulated and designed our requirements for the space. Sleeping areas, a rudimentary kitchen, material collections, and seating were created. Through the shop window, we, as participants, and the space in its process were visible to passersby. Our presence was often understood as an invitation for people to approach us and share information or thoughts. In this way, we became part of the microcosm of Valentinskamp and Gängeviertel for a week. On two evenings, we used the kitchen facilities of our neighbours and prepared meals for guests. Our stay in the exhibition space took on the character of a long-term performance when we performed everyday tasks and became an intervention when we started to dry handmade papers on the sidewalk or plant plants along the roadside.