Recue
Bakery house becoming a collectively run space for art, social practice, and, who knows…bread
138 Chaussée de Forest, 1060 Saint-Gilles
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Bakery house becoming a collectively run space for art, social practice, and, who knows…bread. In collaboration with Tape vzw a non-profit for artists
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Recue is a library. In many senses. Of books obviously, but not only. A library of protest signs (on the facade). Of kefir & kombucha. Of plants. Of artworks. Of sourdough. Of infrastructure: cargo bike, music & radio studio, silkscreen studio, sewing machine, A3 printer&scanner. Of movements (yoga exchange). With stuff that you wouldn’t normally find in most shops, like in a good library. With stuff that you couldn’t/wouldn’t normally buy, because it’s too expensive (art etc) or doesn’t make sense to buy on your own (cargo bike etc) or because it’s not commercially produced (protest signs etc) - so you 'lend' it by using it on the location. Inspiration: Helsinki's public library Ooda where not only meeting rooms but music studios and hi quality sewing machines are free to use upon reservation.
A library can provide lots of social infrastructure. We can see the Recue as a library in the sense that libraries challenge the monopoly knowledge economy. Aren't libraries among the last free spaces in hyper capitalist societies?
Different types of economy to be tested (tasted) for all of these sublibraries (membership, lending in & out, exchange, usership, expertise, building a credit, artistic value, quantifiable / non-quantifiable, ….
And this doesn’t exclude a parallel, commercially operating shop