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New book on art & squatting released…<br>
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<b>Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below</b><br>
Alan W. Moore<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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PDF available freely online:
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“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<br>
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“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
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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.<br>
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