About HuMBASEpartout
What does it mean to leave the ownership of a cultural space to itself? To hand back control and let the power structures fade out?
Who finds their space there? Who has the right to interpret? Who feels included and who feels left out?
And what decisions need to be made in advance? Which structures are required? How do we design access? And safety?
And if the rights lie with the space, who stands up for them? Who represents its rights if it wishes to be used? Who keeps it all together—who will maintain it?
These questions outline the conception and development of HuMBASEpartout. A cultural space project which, on the one hand, is to be understood as artistic research work by the HuM-Collective, consisting of Hannah Häußer and Max Borchert, and thereby the continuation of the HuMBASE project space that has been running since 2018.
On the other—yet more importantly—HuMBASEpartout is a place for cultural work and cultural production.
Detached from any requirements or restrictions, it is one potential design for a sphere for cultural empowerment. Ready to be taken possession of temporarily and on one's initiative, it aims to open up into its surrounding cultural landscape. It wants to invite its users to be part of the process of finding out how accessible, communal, and solidarity-based cultural production can be created beyond the logic of social, cultural, or economic capital. However, above all, it wants to be understood as a catalyst. As an option to be taken seriously and as a partner that reliably supports all those who engage in cultural production or cultural work.
HuMBASEpartout sees itself neither as a finalized project nor as an answer to the questions it raises. Rather, HuMBASEpartout wants to be negotiated, learn from its users, and move in terms of accessibility. To make this possible, it calls on all interested parties and users to point out grievances, hurdles, or barriers and to offer constructive criticism.
This cultural project is made possible thanks to public funding and a number of committed persons. HuMBASEpartout would like to thank all its helpers and the City of Stuttgart for its project funding 2025.
About HuMBASEpartout
What does it mean to leave the ownership of a cultural space to itself? To hand back control and let the power structures fade out?
Who finds their space there? Who has the right to interpret? Who feels included and who feels left out?
And what decisions need to be made in advance? Which structures are required? How do we design access? And safety?
And if the rights lie with the space, who stands up for them? Who represents its rights if it wishes to be used? Who keeps it all together—who will maintain it?
These questions outline the conception and development of HuMBASEpartout. A cultural space project which, on the one hand, is to be understood as artistic research work by the HuM-Collective, consisting of Hannah Häußer and Max Borchert, and thereby the continuation of the HuMBASE project space that has been running since 2018.
On the other—yet more importantly—HuMBASEpartout is a place for cultural work and cultural production.
Detached from any requirements or restrictions, it is one potential design for a sphere for cultural empowerment. Ready to be taken possession of temporarily and on one's initiative, it aims to open up into its surrounding cultural landscape. It wants to invite its users to be part of the process of finding out how accessible, communal, and solidarity-based cultural production can be created beyond the logic of social, cultural, or economic capital. However, above all, it wants to be understood as a catalyst. As an option to be taken seriously and as a partner that reliably supports all those who engage in cultural production or cultural work.
HuMBASEpartout sees itself neither as a finalized project nor as an answer to the questions it raises. Rather, HuMBASEpartout wants to be negotiated, learn from its users, and move in terms of accessibility. To make this possible, it calls on all interested parties and users to point out grievances, hurdles, or barriers and to offer constructive criticism.
This cultural project is made possible thanks to public funding and a number of committed persons. HuMBASEpartout would like to thank all its helpers and the City of Stuttgart for its project funding 2025.
