Parasitic Intervention in the public space of Chicago in the framework of the RAISIN Exhibition of 6018 North and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. 2021. Collaboration with Alexander Sacharow.
Parasite Parking reclaims public space by inhabiting and activating it, 24/7. Parking spaces are now a battleground of the future city. They are the border: between private and public, between staying and leaving, between the mobility of yesterday and the more climate-friendly alternatives of tomorrow, between privileged areas and areas of deprivation. Parking spaces are increasingly subject to gentrification and rent-seeking, just like every other available space in the city. But they are also niches in a city for emancipatory practices. Parasite Parking occupies these niches and explores their subversive potential.
Parasite Parking is an intervention in the public space that uses a multifunctional platform camouflaged as a parking space. The platform can adapt to its paved environment or easily transform to create space for various uses: as a living space, a stage, a café or simply into a conventional parking space. Parasite Parking is an uninvited guest on the spaces that should be available to all of us, and yet are currently occupied only by the steel bodies of modernity.
During the period of the intervention Parasite Parking collaborated with different collectives, artist runned spaces and institutions such as: Chicago Tenant Movement, Open Sheds used fo what?, NoNation Art Laboratory, 6018 North, Occupation Campamiento Ponderosa, Tender House Project and SAIC. Activating the space and transforming the street into a public realm.
Press:
The Urban Activist: „Parking spaces, the battleground of the future city“
New City Art: „A Public Disturbance: A Review of Parasite Parking“
Further Information at: Parasite-Parking.net
Parasite Parking – folded 
Setup for sleeping on the parasite 
In front of 6018/ North 
Having a coffee with a visitor – Edgewater 
Parasite Parking – Magnificent Mile 
Panal discussion about parasitic strategies toward reclaiming public space – Pilson 
Panal discussion about parasitic strategies toward reclaiming public space – Pilson II 
Assembly with the tenant and right to the city movement in front of the city hall 
Assembly with the tenant and right to the city movement in front of the city hall II 
Cooking and Conversation with neighboors – Downtown 
Setup for the parasitic performance night 
Performance Night with NoNation in Wicker Park – Gentrified Neighboorhood 
performance on the parasite 
folded 
Opening night of Parasite Parking 
Parasite Parking – visiting a occupied parking space in Uptown 
Parasite Parking – visiting a occupied parking space in Uptown 
Downtown 
Moving with support of the neighboors 
parasite licens plate 
rain cover 
Moving the parasite through the infrastructure of the city I 
Moving the parasite through the infrastructure of the city II 
Moving the parasite through the infrastructure of the city III
