"Countering the passive consumption of today's social, political, ecological and informational debacle, artist and designer Jerszy Seymour proposes a necessarily utopian alternative, grounded in cooperative creativity. His interdisciplinary practice engages the transformative potentials of art, design and activism through instinctual and embodied energies."
"Seymour's notion of the 'workshop' prioritizes embodied knowledge and existential production that dissolves familiar distinctions between theory and practice, body and mind, or say, dance and design. A visit to Seymour's current 'studio' is thus an encounter with his syncretic, and ultimately generous, style of reclaiming the means of production through autonomous collaboration."
"Located in a former auto repair workshop amidst a partially decayed complex of early 20th century warehouses and facilities at the industrial edge of Neukölln, 'Lucky Garage' takes its name from a graffiti tag found on its double-height rolling door. 'Lucky' also resonates with Seymour's earlier project 'Lucky Larry's Cosmic Commune'; a working hostel and event space developed for the 10th Saint Etienne Design Biennale."
Jerszy Seymour operates Lucky Garage, a converted auto repair workshop in Berlin's Neukölln district, as a continuous collaborative workspace that challenges contemporary alienation through cooperative creativity. Rather than creating emancipatory objects, Seymour focuses on comprehending and transforming overlooked sustaining systems and networks. The workshop dissolves distinctions between theory and practice, body and mind, and various creative disciplines through embodied knowledge and existential production. Located in a partially decayed early 20th-century industrial complex, Lucky Garage builds on Seymour's earlier project Lucky Larry's Cosmic Commune, extending its exchange economy ethos into a materially grounded practice. The space spans over 350 square meters and has been tactically renovated to support collaborative creative work.
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