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Psychatric Hospital Bordeuax – le H.P. (2)

… Most of them don´t know that the H.P. is a squat but all of them act as if they felt that the H.P. is a place where social norms of interaction have to be liberated from mentally oppressive patterns: they make a grimasse when dancing and jumping, they do pantomimes, talk to those they don´t know and dance in a big wobbling circle.

After the party, when the sun rises and the last dancers are tired, the place is kept neat and tidy by one person who lives above the dance floor. No one knows his name and even fewer people have ever seen him.
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Clockworks – the lonely squatter (3)

Roughly one year ago the energy that transformed the old decaying building into an experimental space for self-sustainable urban living and creating suddenly left the Clockworks. Only the lonely squatter and memories of a more active past remained. You can see the traces of this past everywhere in the building: the self made solar panel and clay stove, the sophisticated way of making light and heating water, the beautiful murals and empty atelier spaces … the Clockworks is a space that would welcome new squatters and project with open arms. “But there is nothing going on in Derby. There is nothing to fill the Clockworks with any more.” the lonely squatter says. Continue reading

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