Anat LITWIN, Technion IIT, Israel
This research joins the call to create new political ecosystems in response to over tourism in cities (Koens, Postma & Papp, 2018). It focuses on the city of Tel Aviv, declared in 2003 by UNESCO as the 'White City Architecture' world heritage site due to its vast collection of Bauhaus buildings. In 2021 Tel Aviv was titled the most expensive city in the world according to the 2021 Economist Intelligence Unit’s Worldwide Cost of Living index, 2021, with top percentage of Airbnb units taking a large bite out of available housing (Alster & Avni, 2021). Against this context we examine the Urban Artistic Hosting Platform (UAHP) at Hadira residency, which took place in 2021 at Tel Aviv White City Center. We analyze one of its outcomes, an interactive research methodology and art work titled the 'UAHP game', which focuses on the formation of urban ecosystems in response to neoliberal adversities by engaging diverse participants in the development of theoretic frameworks and operational strategies. One of the emerging proposals entailed the creation of a network of home-based artist-in-residency programs embedded in Bauhaus buildings and eclectic domestic settings in Tel-Aviv, countering capitalist hosting platforms by offering new interlinks between home, heritage and the city. Grounded in the practice of Artistic Hosting, which highlights home as a locus of cultural, social, urban and political unrest, it asks to expose the alarming ramifications at stake while cultivating new forms of urban memory and imagination embedded in everyday living. The proposal provides practical means for maintaining artists in the city, reinforcing the recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist (UNESCO, 1980). Furthermore, it enhances new forms of self-governance and civil engagement in local urban communities and cultivates collaborations with diverse stakeholders on the creation of sustainable structures of care as a critical act of resilience.
Mots clés : over tourism|art|home based residency|white city|Tel-Aviv
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