CLUBEXPRESS#1 is out!
Our first ever publication is here! ☄️We want to thank all the people who contributed their work to this magazine and for your support!CE#1 is finally out and can be purchased through info@clubexpress.eu. This magazine grew out of our need to exchange and come...
Work less — Save the planet
Work less to save the planet: Being free from work as a means of survival can help fight the climate crisis we find ourselves in.“Increased free time would also mean a reduction in all the convenience goods bought to fit into our hectic work schedules”, hence it would...
The Club likes… Inspiring Women — Part 2
The club likes seriesHere’s the 2nd part of our selection of women and their works in the fields of political activism, film and literature. Leslie Kernwriter of the book 'Feminist City, Claiming Space in a Man-Made World' Verso Books, 2019Callie Khouri (b. 1957)wrote...
Work-time reduction
"It is time to revive the international demand for shorter work hours" (Lizzie O’Shea) with no cut in pay. In addition to improving health and well-being and reducing general unemployment, a twenty-hour work week as described by Kate Soper, could promote “better...
The Club likes… Inspiring Women — Part 1
We’re continuing our series where we share what the club likes.Here’s a first selection of women and their works in the fields of art, film, literature, science, etc. — Part 1. Susan Kare (b. 1954)Designer of Macintosh’s system and application icons in the...
110 Years International Women’s day
♀︎💪Today we celebrate 110 years International Women*s Day, the day where we make ourselves heard and seen for women*s rights! We look back on some of the women and events of the women’s movement.On March 19th in 1911, the first international women’s day was held in...
Join your local women*s march
Tomorrow is international women*s day! ♀︎💪Join your local protest/strike/actions! If you can’t take part in the march there are other ways you can join the protests:– Join an online strike/protest!– Slow down your work if it’s not possible to completely withdraw from...
The club likes… Kaja Clara Joo
Clubexpress likes... Kaja Clara JooSelected works from 2017–2020"Social (mass-)phenomena and automated images and codes that are imprinted in us are components of my work practice. It is not the offset everyday beautiful, but threateningly invasive moments that...
Immaterial Labour
Immaterial labour, "the labor that produces the informational and cultural content of the commodity", [1] is highly topical, as a rising majority of people spend most of their time before screens and the lines between work and leisure are hard to separate. In addition...
The Intellectual Proletarian
'Intellectual Proletarians' by Emma Goldman from 1914 is rather timely, as more people are affected by "the changes taking place in workers’ labor processes […], where the skills involved in direct labor are increasingly skills involving cybernetics and computer...
Mnemosyne Atlas – Warburg
Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a german art historian and cultural theorist, founder of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek in Hamburg which was later moved to the Warburg Institute in London.At the heart of his research was the legacy of...
The Architect as Worker | Part 2
"Why did we architects give up on the worker?" tackles the question of responsibility of architects, be it towards construction workers, the environment or society as a whole.Part of clubexpress is working in the creative sector, and some of us are soon-to-be...
The Architect as Worker | Part 1
We're all aware how precarious the work situations in the creative field are. Are we?Architects, as part of this sector, are trained to work endless hours, unpaid overtime and to see their work more as calling than a job.The texts in the book "The Architect as...
What about ‘essential jobs’?
Especially during the holidays, let's think about who does most of the low-paid and unpaid 'essential work' in our society.As opposed to 'bullshit jobs' (meaningless jobs that if not done, no one would notice), essential jobs, like health care work, are discussed...
Iannis Xenakis — Polytopes
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2011), was a Greek/French composer, architect and engineer and a pioneer in the use of mathematical models in music and applied stochastic processes. Xenakis has been an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He...
Iannis Xenakis – Philipps Pavillon
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2011), was a Greek/French composer, architect and engineer and a pioneer in the use of mathematical models in music and applied stochastic processes. Xenakis has been an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He...
How much do emissions have to be reduced?
A 6% drop in global emissions is projected for 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis.⚡️2020 shows us just how much we would have to change our system, our economy, our lifestyle, our society, our politics, to comply with the 1.5°C global warming."To meet the 1.5°C – or even...
Time after Capitalism
What could Time after Capitalism look like? 💭 "Most of us don’t know what it would feel like to waste time without the nagging feeling that we should be doing something else. What if we were free to find out?" Miya Tokumitsu,It’s time to (re)discuss how we could...
Series: Female Artists
Sonia Boyce (born 1962)In the female artists series this week we take a look at two earlier pieces by Sonia Boyce, a British Afro-Caribbean artist.She will be representing the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2022 and the first black woman to do so.Sonia Dawn Boyce’s work...
The Difference between 1.5°C and 2°C Global Warming
⚡️Why is the difference between 1.5° and 2°C global average temperature rise important?The global temperature has already increased by approximately 1.0°C and is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate.There is a big...
Capitalism vs. The Climate
📢 This weekend, thousands of protests were held around the world on 'Global Climate Action Day' to demand urgent action to tackle the climate crisis. 📢 It’s either capitalism or the climate."Capitalism is now changing the world very literally, altering the planet’s...
Climate Change – What measures are being taken?
What is the Paris Agreement? What does the IPCC do?What measures are being taken by governments against climate change?The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed in 1988 and currently consists of 195 governments and thousands of scientists working...
Rising CO2 Emissions
🔴 The highest amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide ever of 417.1 ppm was recorded in May 2020 at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. (Source: NOAA)CO2 is one of many greenhouse gases and the largest contributor to climate change.In fact we need the greenhouse effect,...
Glossary: Equal Pay
Today is the first International Equal Pay Day. ♀💪 "Equal pay means that all workers have the right to receive equal remuneration for work of equal value." (Un Women) It will be 257 years before men and women have pay equality. (The World Economic Forum, Global Gender...
Every week a female portrait
Every week a female portraitWe continue with our series, part five: Self Portrait, 1939 by Pan Yuliang.Pan Yuliang 潘玉良 (born on June 14, 1895) was a Chinese painter, renowned as the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. Born in Yangzhou, worked in...
Todd McLellan – Things come apart
source: www.toddmclellan.comThanks to Todd McLellan for giving us permission to use his photos!
Social Posters from Japan
1- Hiroshima Appeals, Yusaku Kamekura, 19832- Not what I had in mind, Tsunehisa Kimura, 19683- Human Rights-Living Together, Kazumasa Nagai, 1989via: butdoesitfloat.com
Bas Jan Ader
"Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations,...
Being Black in the EU – Racial discrimination in access to housing
Figure: Prevalence of perceived racial discrimination in access to housing in 5 years before the survey, by country (%) (2018)(EU-MIDIS II) by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) Key findings:"One in five respondents of African descent (21 %) felt racially...
Being Black in the EU – Unequal access to housing
Unequal access to housing — Being Black in the EUPart 1: The percentage of black people living in deprived housing in the EU in comparison to the general population. Due to systematic discrimination in housing policy, communities of colour often live in poor housing...
Glossary: Housing Poor
The term house poor or housing poor (derived from the term working poor) describes a person who spends a disproportionally large amount of their monthly income on housing expenses. Accordingly, the expenses for housing should not exceed 30% of a person's income....
Every week a female portrait
Every week a female portraitThe fourth of our series: Malay Girl, 1938 by Irma Stein.Irma Stern (born on October 2, 1894) was a major South African artist and has achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime with her paintings and...
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
Visual representations are never neutral "The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.""Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition...
Being Black in the EU – Racist incident reports
"People of African descent regularly feel discriminated against in many areas of life, whether on the basis of skin colour, ethnic origin or religion. Very few report discrimination they experience to any organisation, despite knowing of equality bodies and...
Being Black in the EU – Prevalence of racist harassment in the EU
#blacklivesmatter Data from the 2016 survey “Being Black in the EU – Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey” (EU-MIDIS II) by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA). “This report highlights how racial discrimination, racist crime,...
Glossary: Racial Profiling
Racial Profiling"[...] racial profiling is discriminatory and unlawful. Such profiling is defined as the “use by police, with no objective and reasonable justification, of grounds such as race, colour, language, religion, nationality or national or ethnic origin in...
Being Black in the EU – Police stops & racial profiling
Figure showing prevalence of stops by police in 5 years before the survey, by country (%)Question: “In the past five years in [COUNTRY] (or since you have been in [COUNTRY]), have you ever been stopped, searched or questioned by the police?” "Police stops and racial...
Extrastatecraft: The Power Of Infrastructure Space – Keller Easterling
What are the variables, the spatial matrix and forces shaping most of todays build space? How can infrastructure be understood today?Extrastatecraft: The Power Of Infrastructure Space by the architect, writer and Yale Professor Keller Easterling unfolds todays...
Every week a female portrait
Every week a female portraitThe third of our series: Self-Portrait (as “New Woman”), 1896 by Frances Benjamin Johnston.Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 — May 16, 1952) was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost...
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group "Die Brücke" ("The Bridge"), a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. 01 - Bathers...
Space Suit Design 1977
Hubert Vykukal demonstrates mobility of the Hardsuit AX-3 Space Suit Design, NASA, 1977Source: archive.orgPublic Domain
Glossary: Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
But what does it mean, exactly?With the glossary, we try to expand our terminology to help improve our discussions and better underline arguments on ever so important topics. source: IPCC Special Report 2018, Global Warming of 1.5°C, Annex I: Glossary
Transport CO2 Emissions in the EU
Emission breakdown by transport mode (2016)Transportation accounts for 23.8% of the EU greenhouse gas emissions."And because different modes of transport compete for the same roadspace, it is governments and local authorities that decide which forms get priority...
Every week a female portrait
Every week a female PortraitThe second of our series: ‘Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features’ (1981) by Adrian Piper."Adrian Piper (born 1948) is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one...
CO2 Emissions in the EU
"And because different modes of transport compete for the same roadspace, it is governments and local authorities that decide which forms get priority depending on the infrastructures they build."Kris De Decker, We Can’t Do It Ourselves, Low-tech Magazine CO2...
The order of things — Michel Foucault
The order of things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966), Michel Foucault (1926-1984)What is order? How are order and as a consequence knowledge conditioned by cultural codes?Michel Foucault indicates that the production of order and knowledge relates to...
Oldest surviving photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833) is the oldest surviving photograph (circa 1826). The "window view is considered the oldest photograph that is known to have been formed in the camera in the world." (widewalls.ch) The exposure...
Sustainable living & individual responsibility
'The New Normal' and sustainable development: How can we shift the focus from 'individual blame' to fundamental changes in societies and systems? If we want to keep up with the climate crisis and the effects that emerge from this development, how can we organise and...
Global surface temperature
By now, global warming has reached 1°C above the average temperature of pre-industrial values (reference period from 1850-1900). 🌡Global temperature target:The goal set by the ‘Paris Agreement’ in 2015 is to keep the global average temperature 'distinctly' under...
Every week a female portrait
Every week a female PortraitSabine Lepsius (1864–1942) was a German portrait painter. Her salon in Berlin-Westend was considered a major social gathering point. She was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession and exhibited with them until 1913. Most of her...
Postcapitalism
What can postcapitalism look like?Unlimited growth is not possible in a world with limited resources. As our current political system — capitalism — is based on economic growth, we have to ask ourselves: What can postcapitalism look like?"Humanity’s 21st century...