»Zwangsarbeit/en – Work Force/d« Residencies

The project and fellowship »Zwangsarbeit/en – Work Force/d« places sites of National Socialist forced labor in Stuttgart at the center of an artistic exploration. Between 1939 and 1945, tens of thousands of people from across Europe were deployed as forced laborers in Stuttgart – in industry, construction, agriculture, public institutions, and private households, often under inhumane conditions. The sites of this forced labor were part of everyday urban life. Many still exist today, yet are hardly recognizable as places of violence, exploitation, and disenfranchisement.