Title: Off-Grid Authors:Andreas Broeckmann, Lizaveta German, Garnet Hertz, Adelina Luft, Mari-Liis Rebane, Antonina Stebur, Timo Toots, Helen Turner, and Raluca Voinea. Editor:Katažyna Jankovska Issued: 2026 Language: English Type: Paperback Pages: 142 Dimensions: 14 x 20cm ISBN/EAN: 978-609-08-1110-8 Design: Ringailė Demšytė
We rely on systems we hardly notice, until the lights go out or the network fails. But in those moments, another kind of knowledge arises: DIY solutions, forgotten analog technologies, and collective ways of making and being.
Off-Grid collects stories of protest infrastructures assembled in neighborhood yards and encrypted Telegram chats, internet cables stretched between apartment blocks, DIY practices, attempts to build a toaster from scratch, and a self-sustaining research capsule designed to operate for up to 120 days in isolation. This book moves across rural art institutions, repurposed power plants, exhibitions curated within forests and farmlands, and the early digital networks of the 1990s to explore what autonomy can mean in a world built on fragile, interconnected systems—and how much room for maneuver remains within them.
