Owner-Occupy is the newest work from Yurt Empire Allumni, Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline. “Hugo and Heidi envision a world where real estate as we know it is abandoned and land ownership is wiped clean, in a new state of terra … Continue reading
Lenny Mitcherson and Leonie Valentine woke to the sound of strangers dismantling their home. From beneath a tarpaulin, they could hear someone removing the steel bars keeping their shanty fortress upright. “They were going to try dragging the tarp out … Continue reading
“Housing prices are out of control and without a public housing option to keep inner-city rentals down, private developers will be able to charge what they want. Public housing tenants and people on lower incomes create the diversity, village atmosphere … Continue reading
Join us on the 15th May for the first in a series of public events this winter! SYDNEY, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. Congratulations Sydney, you are now one of the most unaffordable places to live in the world. How did … Continue reading
Yurt Empire is testing the resilience and flexibility of permaculture design principles in complex city systems. Yurt Empire artist Alexandra Crosby has made this the focus of her new exhibition at UTS opening on April 2. Over the last decade what … Continue reading
Our Pozible campaign has officially launched! We are crowdsourcing support for this next stage of the Empire to help buy materials to build the Yurts. We are running this campaign until the 23rd April. You can rush to our campaign … Continue reading
This week, Chris Fox and Adam Kennedy have been busy in the studio testing out the first stage of Aqua Yurt prototyping. Aqua Yurt is a utility structure providing water catchment, water storage, planters and shelter for the artist lead … Continue reading
Notes from the field. Super Bush Pole Yurt set off during the school holidays to Ponyland, the property of Phoebe and Dave. This report was provided by Clare for the team. Les, Matt and I hit the road on the … Continue reading
In association with the exhibition User Generated Architecture, Christof Mayer and Andreas Krauth, from raumlabor berlin, will be running an intensive 2 day Generator Workshop in Sydney. And some of us from Yurt Empire will be participating! The Generator Workshops are international, experimental … Continue reading
First yurt build on its way! Clare and Matt (and Les!) left yesterday with the donated canvas strapped to the roof racks of their car, on their way to Ponyland, home of fellow yurt empire collaborators Phoebe and Dave in … Continue reading
New from Yurt Empire’s Cartography Dept., as published in the forthcoming atlas-catalogue for Baadlands: An Atlas of Experimental Cartography “Yurt Empire treats cartography as another space of occupation, as a device for looking, for positioning and for remaking. The map depicted in this atlas … Continue reading
Next month Yurt Empire Ambassadors Tessa & Sumu will be spending a week in Berlin as residents of this excellent new project by Berlin Farmlab artist Valentina Karga. The ‘Summer School for Applied Autonomy’ is: “a research initiative interested in capturing … Continue reading
A team of Yurt Empiricists participated in a workshop at Vivid Ideas – Transform your Turf: A Story-Led Game to Co-Design Public Housing, 8th June, 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art . This workshop proposed as its starting point the ‘wicked … Continue reading
YURT EMPIRE Lab #2 29 March 1 April 2013 Milkwood Permaculture Mudgee – YouTube.
One of our Yurt Empire artists Pia van Gelder has been busy collaborating with Indonesian artists in Yogyakarta (Central Java) on this project. We can’t wait for her to come back and regal us with tales! The Instrument Builders Project … Continue reading
“Baadlands: an Atlas of Experimental Cartography brings together a series of projects that use mapping as a way of revealing, challenging or engaging with the politics of space in a globalised world. The exhibition focuses on a series of undeveloped, unused … Continue reading
This July we spent two days upstairs at the Tote building in Green Square consolidating where we are at in terms of the site, our yurt designs and preparing for our upcoming exhibition and ongoing site brokering. Being located in … Continue reading