habitat is a blueprint for research and practice that places itself beyond the art world’s criteria and institutions.

habitat takes inspiration from the Blaue Reiter movement dating back to the 1910s when, in times of conflict and de/re/construction, the “Almanac” (1912) charted a new atlas based on artistic beliefs, realizing both crises‘ and creativity’s ability to rise above political issues and unite societies across boarders based on a shared value system.

habitat is an advocate for the economic vale of cultural production, and sets out to give form to a future where the relics of post-industrial life are reimagined toward creative practices, or stand as the final nail in the post-modern city’s coffin: the artist should run while he still can, but can he? Has his legs not already been chopped by the sloppy slaughter spelled I N C O M E
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The residency also explores how technological advancements continue to shape our shared experiences; its rotating programming aims to anchor the anarchism of digital communities, the Almanac’s contemporary alias, in offline exchange.