Driving, Dreaming, Drifting (2025-2026)
Driving, Dreaming, Drifting explores the impact of the automobile on the environment, mobility, and urban space, as well as on social power structures. The project questions prevailing notions of public space, which are often shaped by control, exclusion, and hierarchy. In this context, the car functions as a symbol of ownership, individualization, and dominance. From queer-feminist perspectives, the participating artists develop alternative imaginaries of mobility and possibilities for more just and inclusive forms of coexistence.
A central aim of the project is to temporarily activate spaces heavily shaped by automobiles as sites for cultural discourse, opening up new perspectives on the use of urban space.
Following the main program in Stuttgart, the project continued through a series of “echo” events. The first took place in September 2025 in cooperation with the sociocultural center Recyclart in Brussels. From February 13 to March 25, 2026, works by Natalia Domínguez and Paco Ladrón de Guevara were presented in Barcelona in collaboration with Sant Andreu Contemporani. A publication accompanying the project has also been released.
The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the City of Stuttgart through the Stuttgart-Mitte district.
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