ALSO-CLASS: click here

ALSO-SPACE:

1.
also-space started as an exhibition platform in Beijing. It is also a platform to collaboration with Chinese artists in the Benelux.
Collaborators where a.o.:
Elaine W. Ho, Michael Yuen, Michael Eddy, C-space, Yan Jun, Carol Yinghua Lu, Qu Twist, Xiao Ke, emi Uemera, Zhen Fei Wang -hhdfun, Liang Shuo, META-project, and others, ...

see: http://vanhoe.org/paginas/alsospace.html

2.
Also-space is a study conducted at creating 010 (willem de kooning academy, Rotterdam) and concentrates on the activities of ruangrupa, an Indonesian artinitiative. The study proposes an Also-space in opposition to alternative space. It will be soon publised.
.... Today, (critical) citizens (like artists) should not put themselves away in so-called alternative spaces. They are more likely after an “also world”, an also-possible construction of daily life . Using the example of ‘solidarity economy’ shows that people understand that a substantial change is needed but the main obstacle is cultural.  
However fast solidarity economy is developing, millions of people who fight for ‘another world’ [I use the term “also-world”, RV] do not practise or participate in it. First, because they are unaware of it; second, because of the relatively difficult access to the products and services produced within this other economy. Both difficulties can be quickly surmounted. The main obstacle is cultural: to overcome a consumerist culture that prizes quantity, excess, possession and waste over the welfare of people and communities [I call it the power of the main or centralized world, RV], we need to replace unsustainable forms of production, consumption and ways-of-life with the affirmation of new ways of producing, consuming and living in solidarity. Euclides André Mance IFiL, Curitiba, Solidarity Economics, 2007, pp. , ....