künstlerische Recherche - Installation - temporäre Interventionen im Stadtraum - Soundwalk
after the butcher - Ausstellungsraum für zeitgenössische Kunst und soziale Fragen
Stadtraum Rummelsburger Bucht
Berlin, 2011/12
Eva Kietzmann/Petra Kübert
Während einer mehrmonatigen Recherchephase beschäftigten wir uns mit den aktuellen städtischen und architektonischen Oberflächen des geschichtsträchtigen Gebietes an der Rummelsburger Bucht mitsamt den ästhetischen und sozialen Auswirkungen der Umnutzung in ein attraktives Wohngebiet.
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Entwicklungsgebiet Rummelsburger Bucht
(City improvement area Bay Rummelsburg)
- Artistic research - installation - temporary artistic intervention in public space - soundwalk - booklet -
This work reflects on the city improvement area Rummelsburger Bucht Berlin. We were especially interested in to what extent privatizing had an impact on the area's histography.
As a former work camp for poor and homeless people during National Socialism and a prison for political prisoners during the GDR, in 2007 the municipal buildings were purchased by a private investor and were transformed into a fancy living area.
Through audio-interviews, photography and temporary artistic interventions in public space, we questioned the histography. How does history remain visible and how is a new appearance produced? To what extent does the process of privatization avoid a proper analysis, recognition and memory of the "asocial" stigmatized victims of the National Socialism?
We interviewed 20 stakeholders who were involved in the ongoing planning process: politicians, architects, investors, residents, political activists, former prisoners. In a sound installation we put the controversial positions on a "round table".
Additionally to the sound-video-installation we invited for an interventionist, artistic walk through that area.
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