The work is a preservation of the locally and temporally limited exhibition project Tabula Rasa, which dealt with the culture of modernising rental apartments and democracy.

Living in rented accommodation is a socially overarching issue, and the inherent culture of modernisation raises questions about how capitalism, the resulting classism, as well as an understanding of subjectivity and objectivity, affect living culture and what consequences all these topics have for political efficacy. How does building practice influence our private lives? How much space do we have to imagine how we find our living space? Whether it suits us? And if it does, whether we like it?

From 27.06.2022 to 01.07.2022, an exhibition was held in the rooms of Wohnunion Halle e.G. at Georg-Cantor-Straße 7 in Halle, which opened this space for discussion. This artistic engagement was bound to a kinetic, plastic process, where each stage of this process was reserved for one person. This led to a limited number of singular experiences. The project concluded with a joint meeting of the participants and a final discussion round.

In Tabula Rasa (conserved), the documentation of the kinetic work, which piece by piece destroyed and thus deconstructed a plasterboard wall, is projected onto the remnants of the installation.

This preserves the integrity of the original project and further sharpens the question of the exclusivity of art. Viewers become passive witnesses to various experiences.