Ausrufung der ZKE Kunstbewegung / des ZKEissmus
(2012)

ZKEism is above all the history of the origins of ZKE and the ZKE greeting: ZKE are the final letters of FabritZKE and LabitZKE. At the meeting "We all stay, nobody leaves" on May 2, 2012 at the Labitzke site in Zurich Altstetten, the following happened: In the afternoon we met in the Fabritzke to design stickers for "Labitzke bleibt". While we were making the stickers, Thomas said that we were now an indigenous people and that we should register this as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Then I said: An indigenous people needs a tongue clicker. The ZKE tongue clicker was born, then the ZKE sticker and from there the ZKE greeting developed. ZKE! The new greeting formula instead of hoi, tschau, papa or other greeting formulas. ZKE is now a part of the city's art and culture with a good spirit. Just as Dadaism at the time, between the First and Second World Wars, was also directed against the increasingly conservative art institutions, which no longer allowed anything new into institutions that no longer allowed anything new into their buildings, today ZKEism is based on and directed against the increasing power of capitalism and the gentrification that accompanies it. A gentrification that is not sufficiently successful (in capitalist terms), that is not sufficiently successful (in the capitalist sense) is increasingly being pushed out of the city and thus made impossible.