ASSET ARREST

ASSET ARREST

ASSET ARREST is a research project and podcast series that infiltrates and disseminates the exclusive spaces of financialized housing. In each episode of the podcast, Laura invites a guest to view a property with her, with them both posing as potential buyers. The project functions both as an investigative tool and as a mode of counter-publicity, deploying strategies that “make public” what is structurally hidden. Central to this practice is the production of alternative representations of these sites—images rendered not through the idealized CGI marketing tropes that dominate real estate promotion, but through unscripted conversation and embodied performance. This performative access enables a rupture in the polished façade of luxury developments, allowing for the insertion of critical discourse into spaces otherwise closed to scrutiny. ASSET ARREST mobilizes a feminist methodology—one that resists objectivity, embraces relationality, and insists on the political significance of lived experience. The project is understood as an act of spatial disobedience: reclaiming the tools of surveillance, storytelling, and spectacle not to reproduce power, but to subvert and redistribute it.

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