by otc – Observant Thick Conversation
2025

Read and download the publication here.

Weaving Back to Common Grounds marks the final stage of the two-year project Have We Passed Peak Collective, developed in collaboration with Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg and other partner institutions.
The project explores questions of collective practice, shared agency, and collaboration in times of social and cultural change — reflecting on how individual and collective work intertwine, and on the fragile conditions that make collaboration possible.

The publication accompanying the exhibition expands on these ideas. It gathers voices and reflections from the project’s two-year trajectory and includes a practical Artist Rider, designed as a tool for artists, collectives, and institutions to structure collaborative work.

Contributions come from Lisa Britzger, Rahel grote Lambers, Alexander Klaubert, Clara Kramer, Francis Kussatz, Marita Landgraf, Anne Meerpohl, Nadja Quante, and otc – Observant Thick Conversation, with graphic design by Kiki Park.

The publication was released alongside a public talk moderated by Laura Seidel (Curator) with Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (Performative Architect & Cultural Activist), otc, and other guests, addressing collective work within the art world as well as social and political transformation.

This project has been made possible with the support of Stiftung Kunstfonds, the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg Fellowship Program, and the Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg City Gallery.