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The Office for Collaborative Sustainability, COLLASUS, is an

1. TERRITORIAL REGIMES

interdisciplinary network interested in advancing the radical in everyday life.

The office began as an Internet based platform to maintain collaboration amongst the founding members when overseas and across the country.

The office is held together by the ubiquitous infrastructure of the Internet: skype calls, google docs, dropbox, blogging, wikipedia, and faithfully uncredited research. But it cannot deny the real muck that we exist in: compost, dirt, suburban developments, gentrified urban ghettos and dayjobs. COLLASUS seeks to develop the interactivity of these two worlds. The virtual allows for consistently new territories of exploration, while the muddy substrate allows for cultivation.

COLLASUS is a problem solving network. We recognize architecture, installation, curation and research as the fruits of our labor, but only insofar as they provide the hyperlink to the next project. In this way, COLLASUS is websurfing, it is simultaneously structure and content. It is the way we find information and it informs what we look for.

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TERRITORIAL REGIMES

As part of an ongoing project that seeks to re-engage the abandoned Iraqi Embassy (Pankow-Berlin, Germany), the Collasus group has asked artists both international and local to produce a site specific work for the abandoned building.

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There were no guidelines, and no limit to participation. The group of participants are that of varied backgrounds, ages, and practices within the umbrella of art.

This opportunity is seen less as a lament to the building's past, a claim for its future or the complex history between Iraq and the rest of the world; rather, it seeks to find an alternative use through collectivity, art, and criticism.or altered) by the public. The work will remain anonymous in the former embassy.

RESEARCH DOCUMENT 1. David Knowles, Neutral Political Space. 2. Emily Kocken, Letters for a Dying Building 3. Matthew Austin, The Plant that Ate Berlin. 4. Wildendorf, Score written for embassy. 5. Luca Antonuci, Untitled. tiles.

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Removing overgrowth in the garden

1. David Knowles, Neutral Political Space. 2. Emily Kocken, Letters for a Dying Building 3. Matthew Austin, The Plant that Ate Berlin. 4. Wildendorf, Score written for embassy. 5. Luca Antonuci, Untitled. tiles.

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SEMINAR: A seminar hosted by COLLASUS and the Public School Berlin onsite at the former Embassy, PROGRAM Initiative for Art and Architecture.

BERLIN 2010.

Site of Territorial Regimes Symposium. Former Iraqi Embassy Pankow, Berlin.

Embassy Conference Room.

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Stills from Seminar: Territiorial Regimes, 2010.

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LIFEFORCE

2007 Performance 500 M3 - 20min Jewish Ghetto, Rome

WATER Wate er iss col olllected ed thr hro oug th he fu fun nnel el and d diist s ille le ed

ENER RGY

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He eat a and d mettha hane gas are re gener e ated posi po siing g org rgan a iicc wastes

LIBIDO

A sh hor ortt ho h me me vid de eo o of ma mach hin ines es

FOOD Growing vege ge ettaabl b es, th he soiilil iss re remed diat atted with other deco com mpos osin ing o orrganic maatt tter e

1. Compost for soil remediation 2. Storage bags to perserve raw materials 3.Planting bladders for hydroponic gardening 4. Rainwater collector 5. Solar still, rainwater purifier 6.

Biodigestor producing methane gas for cooking

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MACHINES: 1. Compost for soil remediation 2. Storage bags to perserve raw materials 3.Planting bladders for hydroponic gardening 4. Rainwater collector 5. Solar still, rainwater purifier 6. Biodigestor producing methane gas for cooking

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Building methane collectors with chicken waste from local live poultry market.

Matt’s Rocket Launcher, what is this?

PLATFORM EDEN Collasus agriculture and permaculture projects engender modelsofnewmedia,interactionandproduction.Focusing on urban contexts as sites for work and exchange forces creative solutions for how to work with the land. From here issues in urbanity, sustainability, and collectivity are allowed to interact through site specific projects or longer gardening works.These projects often act as seeds, leaving behind vibrant legacies and traces. Asking questions of

new media; video, web based tools can introduce innovative feedback to these systems.

It is in the cultural distinction of the natural world within rural vs suburban vs urban life that fosters amnesia of our collective responsibility to the sustainable use of land. Rather than a singular inent based on agriculture, we are trying to rediscover natural systems and ways they can interacted with?

How can art’s mythmaking transformative tools aid in this transition?

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The garden is a platform for a number of outreach and remediation efforts. That invite, engage, and suggest platforms for lifestyle and production.

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R Rai Ra aised issed se ed Planting Pllan P anti ant tiing ng ng Be eds Raised Beds

Co Com C o om omp mpo po osst Station Stta tat atio at on n Compost Chi C Childr Ch hild lldr drren en’ n’s Zone n’ Zo on one ne Children’s Rainwater Rai Ra inwa nw water te er C Ci Cistern isste te ern rn

Rai R ai ainwa ainw nwa n water er C Co o ecti olle ct on Hood d Rainwater Collection

FFar aarrm mer me er’ss Market Mar M arrke ke ett Awning Aw A Awnin wnin niiin n ng Farmer’s

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143 Stockholm St. a vacant lot owned

by NYPD was the catalyst to petition the neighborhood to create an interactive green space.

The project aims were to provide youth with a connection to the earth and exposure to sustainable small scale food production. The lot lay vacant for over 15 years accumulating garbage, neverthless its landowner (NYPD) claims future plans. Collasus 1. Compost for soil remediation 2. Storage bags to perserve will begin planting a field of sunflowers (lead) in raw materials 3.Planting bladders for hydroponic gardening 4. Rainwater collector 5. Solar still,spring rainwater er 6.to begin creative use of the land. the ofpurifi 2011 Biodigestor producing methane gas for cooking

Compost Painting at the Invisible Dog Art Center C is a soil remediation earthwork that strives for a net environmental benefit through its educational renewable painting process. Inspired by community scale composting projects in Brooklyn, Compost Painting project scavenges an abundant urban art and garden materials, carefully sourced waste organics.

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1. Compost for soil remediation 2. Storage bags to perserve raw materials 3.Planting bladders for hydroponic gardening 4. Rainwater collector 5. Solar still, rainwater purifier 6.

Biodigestor producing methane gas for cooking

Mariette Auvray’s video projects help us consider territoriality anew.

Des chapitres du conflit and Territorial Regimes both address issues of territoriality on multiple registers. In this context, the notion of tactile geography that Mariette explores in the ‘Vegetable Map’ sequence provides a new means of conceptualizing one’s relationship to territory.

These are two excerpts from a documentary Mariette made last year “Le Le lac des brumes”, brumes brumes”, about the relationships within the members of a vietnamese family in France. She got to work with the father in several sequences. Manh H. was a philosophy teacher in Berlin during the 80s, he is now working as a cook in France. Within in the film, lm her her attempt mpt was to show him as the char haract acter er who iiss distant fro from m the the oth other er fam family ily character members. s. He was wa really conc ncern erned ed with with his his past, pastt, as pas concerned opposed to op to his his daily dailly life, dai life, constantly consta con stantly tly in in the the res esta tauran antt restaurant

184 Wilson Ave. is growing soil, food, and polinators while catching rainwater and connecting neighbors in three previously neglected adjoining backyards. The gardens convert 1500 lbs of waste from the surrounding neighborhood each season into compost for its raised beds. Thus, transforming an industrial area of Brooklyn into a fertile ecotone. While the past two seasons have produced abundant food donations to the community 2011 will mark the first year of selling its produce to cover seed and infrastructure costs.

1. Compost for soil remediation 2. Storage bags to perserve raw materials 3.Planting bladders for hydroponic gardening 4. Rainwater collector 5. Solar still, rainwater purifier 6.

Biodigestor producing methane gas for cooking

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Performance: spraying something

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Interview with an Empire 2007 Performance 500 M3 - 20min Jewish Ghetto, Rome

Seeking to engage public space in Rome to critique Italy’s mediatic culture. The performance took the form of a mythical drama in order to explore and reappropriate the classical paradigms of Italy’s aesthetic history that continue to influence the discourse of the media. In this sense, the project was an effort to develop, through a historico-aesthetic critique, a minor art capapble of resiting the hegemony of the spectacle.

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We constucted a sh shallow allow basin in the courtyard of Pallazetto Cenci that t served as the site for a performance that investigated in nvestigated Italy’s military history.

This creative analys analysis is hoped to provide a space for the foundation of new ssocio-political models outside of discourse. dominant statist dis scourse.

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