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12/10/2009

Immo Klink

Espaivisor - Galeria Visor , Valencia

For European Communities, Immo Klink has documented 17 intentional communities across Europe. He has spent five years researching well established and newly founded locations, examining their beliefs, habitats and micro-economies. The sites are miniature experiments of creating different ways of living. Klink sees those founded most recently as "collectives which want to prove another world is possible, where groups put their ideas about society into practice - they are in effect extended forms of protest."

The images comprise a wide spectrum, from highly organised and profitable groups to secluded and loosely bound travellers' sites. The various spiritual orientations of these alternative scenes borrow from Christianity, Paganism, native Indians, Far Eastern philosophies as well as the liberation ideals of the 60s and 70s.

The artist has also come across recurring political and ideological ideas underpinning the communities - environmentalism and a critical attitude towards consumerism and capitalism. Consensus-oriented decision-making is widely preferred over majority rule and, unlike their predecessors of the 1970s, most of the new communities are more pragmatic, having abandoned ideas of collectivism or shared production.

A constant flux of members keeps the communities highly dynamic and as a result many have accumulated an extraordinary alternative know-how. Concepts such as organic farming, natural building, permaculture and alternative healing methods were practised here already in the 1980s before permeating the mainstream.

The photographs of the various forms of living demonstrate how architecture and mobility can be expressions of personal development within a collective beyond the functions of private property or livelihood. The large scale practicability of these models within our European societies might seem utopian but at the same time they serve as a rear-view mirror.

Opening 13 oct. 8 pm

Espaivisor - Galeria Visor
Corretgeria, 40, bajo izq-2 - Valencia
Hours: tue-fri 17-24, sat 12-24
Admission free

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