[Minorcompositions] Occupation Culture… New book on art & squatting

[Minor Compositions]

New book on art & squatting released…


*Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below*
Alan W. Moore

Occupation Culture is the story of a journey through the world of recent 
political squatting in Europe, told by a veteran of the 1970s and ‘80s 
New York punk art scene. It is also a kind of scholar adventure story. 
Alan W. Moore sees with the trained eye of a cultural historian, 
pointing out pasts, connections and futures in the creative direct 
action of today’s social movements.

Occupation Culture is based on five years of travel and engaged 
research. It explicates the aims, ideals and gritty realities of 
squatting. Despite its stature as a leading social movement of the late 
twentieth century, squatting has only recently received scholarly 
attention. The rich histories of creative work that this movement 
enabled are almost entirely unknown.

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=684

“Reporting on close to forty years of exploits Alan W. Moore’s 
Occupation Culture is no academic treatise but a Picaresque adventure 
story filled with both detailed observations and broader reflections on 
the political and cultural significance of art and squatting that 
stretches across the Atlantic from the United States to Europe.” – 
Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of 
Enterprise Culture

“Occupy wasn’t just a movement, it is a long-standing strategy and, 
frankly, a form of living. Alan W. Moore has seen firsthand more squats 
and occupations than anyone, and he brings his sensibility to bear on 
this global phenomena. A must read for occupiers, whether artist, 
activist or renter.” – Nato Thompson, curator at Creative Time, editor 
of Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011


Bio: Alan W. Moore worked with the artists’ groups Colab and helped 
start the cultural center ABC No Rio in New York City. He has published 
on artists’ groups, cultural districts and cultural economies, and is 
the author of Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City 
(2011). He lives in Madrid.



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