Global Finance Walk Report by RYBN

Global Finance Walk Report by RYBN

This sound piece is a report from the “Global Finance Walk” workshop, held in Berlin on the 21st of august, 2021, led by RYBN.ORG together with Laura Calbet on the invitation of Supermarkt Berlin and ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin) (1). The workshop took place a few weeks before Berlin’s referendum against real estate speculation (“Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen and Co.”) (2), hold on 26th September 2021.

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Participants of the workshop were invited for a psychogeographic dérive in the newly constructed residential neighborhood of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. For their walk, the participants were equipped with a GPS loaded with geolocalized information on the urban developers of the neighborhood. The audiotour exposed to the participants the private equity investments, development funds and corporate networks in charge of the extreme financialization of the urban area. After the walk, participants gathered in a park and discussed together of the transformation of the urban landscape under extreme financial pressure, and in the perspective of the coming referendum.

The sound piece presents excerpts of the workshop conclusive discussion, mixed with phone messages let by the participants on a dedicated voicemail. The piece was broadcasted on the day of the referendum on Berlin’s community radio RebootFM, 88.4 FM (3).

Workshop participants: Alejo, Estefania, Doma, Bernd, Caroline, Diana, Inke, Karen, Gerry, Laura, Pekko, Stéphanie.

(1) https://www.zku-berlin.org/nc/de/timeline/global-finance-walk-offshore-tour-operator/
(2) https://sites.law.duq.edu/juris/2021/10/18/berlins-housing-referendum/
(3) https://reboot.fm/2021/09/26/global-finance-walk-radio-report/

RYBN.ORG is an artistic, experimental and independent research platform created in 1999, and based in Paris.

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Global Finance Walk Report by RYBN
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