Urban Subjects

URBAN SUBJECTS (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber) have worked together since 2004 on visual, curatorial, and book projects focusing on the transformation and possibilities of cities, urbanism, and housing. Based in the widely differing cities of Vancouver (Musqueam territory) and Vienna they have researched alternatives to top-down urban planning in cities such as Caracas, New Belgrade, Milan, Vienna and Vancouver. Their recent projects have speculated on the past and present representation of political moments and movements through the idea of the militant image. Their books include The Militant Image Reader (Camera Austria Editions), Front, Field, Line, Plane: Researching the Militant Image (adocs publishing), Momentarily: Learning from Mega-events (Western Front) and Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade (Fillip/Sternberg Press). They have been artists in residence at EXPO 2015 in Milan, Italy, the Leuphana Arts Program at Leuphana University Lüneburg, and VIVO.