JACK HALBERSTAM Keynote: Anarchitecture After Everything

In his latest book, *Anarchitecture After Everything*, Jack Halberstam revisits the radical architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and the “Anarchitecture” movement, reinterpreting them through the lens of transness. Cutting, opening, removing, and “unbuilding” are not presented as acts of destruction, but as transformative practices that enable new ways of inhabiting bodies, spaces, and worlds. In the context of the comprehensive renovation of Kampnagel, this perspective takes on a particular urgency. When walls are opened, structures are exposed, and spaces are reimagined, the construction site itself becomes a field of artistic, social, and political possibilities. Halberstam’s lecture explores how practices of breaking open and dismantling can disrupt existing orders and create openings for new social, political, and embodied futures. The construction site is seen not as a state of deficiency or interruption, but as a productive condition of becoming.