Cyril Schäublin

Kropotkin

In 1887, Peter Kropotkin stayed briefly in the Swiss Jura, fiefdom of the watchmaking industry and epicentre of the international anarchist movement. He would retain a strong impression of his encounter with the highly organised local workers, whose “equalitarian relationships and independent thought” he would praise in his diary. 140 years after the “conversion” of this man who was to theorise libertarian communism a little later on, Cyril Schäublin restages fragments of this diary read in Russian, in the current setting. A place in which his ancestors, who worked from generation to generation in the watchmaking manufactures of this region until their closure, still survive.

Public Library

“I think this is one of the only places in Seattle where people can come and everybody is the same.” Christopher Hogan, Security Officer Created for the exhibition "Culture:City" curated by the architects Mathias Sauerbruch (Sauerbruch/Hutton) and Wilfried Wang, Akademie der Künste Berlin

My brother, the raven

"The savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau