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
Last week Craig and Jen from Yurt Empire took part in the latest in late night library nights spreading across the City of Sydney. The title of this chat fest was Sketches … 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
This August, while Yurt Empire took a well-deserved rest, Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan spent a week in residence at the Summer School for Applied Autonomy, Berlin, doing some hands-on research into what it takes to live off the grid … Continue reading
Yurt Empire artist Tessa Zettel is currently on assignment in Belgrade, as a guest of Belgrade – The Toolkit Project, which is part of the Urban Incubator initiative. Tessa is accompanying Marjetica Potrc, whose team of students from Hamburg University … 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