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this exhibition it is the classic relation of fields and bodies which
concerns the whole of the Fine Arts from the perspective illusion to
object and the installation. With the precondition of the cardboard
boxes being moved around it is continuative to question them as
secondary packaging and thus an almost universal container. With cuboid
or cube we have geometrical bodies here which are placed
between dynamics and statics. This becomes clear for the cube on a
linguistic level because the term 'Wuerfel" (cube) is derived from the
playful 'werfen' (to throw) of the miniatures of this body. One can
roll them up to some distance until they definitely break down on one
of their six sides. With a tetrahedron this does not work. It is a body
with great static perseverance and it breaks down on one of the
equilateral triangles once it has fallen down. The next polyhedron in
line, the octahedron, would indeed carry on rolling but its 8
triangular faces were not as clear. The dodecahedron with its 20
pentagons approximates a sphere and would roll off the playing field. Out of the five platonic bodies the cube is thus not only especially universal but also in its shape embodies the principles of statics and dynamics on a common denominator. Because of this the cube and the cuboid which is derived from it have been a basic form for vehicles and transporting containers of all kind since the time of the carriages until today. In SHARED SPACE statics and dynamics combine not only by the relation of movement (flowing traffic) and deposited things (ur- ban furnishing) but statics and dynamics determine also the daily routine of each person whose movements start and end at the spot where he puts himself down to sleep and raises again. For a growing number of people though are the sleeping places taken at night not identical with those on which they had arisen the morning before. Traditionally this concerns nomads, warriors and travellers as well as migrants and displaced people. Nowadays this includes in addition more and more people who are out on business, |
amongst
those the staff of mass transportation, show
business, of theatre- and film industry as well as journalists,
athletes, seasonal workers and many others. To be kept in mind are also
the growing number of homeless. Many truckers, camper and seamen take a
special position because they are on their way namely, but their bunks
are taken along in the their vehicles. All those that cannot put down
their heads every night on the same sleeping spot have to deal with the
permutation of statics and dynamics. Next to the majority of people who
can do without many changes of scenery there is a growing number of
people that are on their way to satisfy their own desires and those of
the settled. Touristic ser- vice providers look after the most blatant
ways of mobility and entertainment. It is not necessarily any longer
about travelling to places but about static comfort whilst the pure
being on the way. This pseudo mobility and entertainment for travellers
on cruise ships is a further development of transports to stereotype
holiday spots where homeland conditions disguise the change of place.
4. Relevance:
risk instead of routine TEMPORARY SLEEPING SPOTS Places where one lays down to sleep that are not in the privacy of one's own home do disappear when one journeys on. They are abandoned and possibly are available for someone else the very next day. They are not a fixed point of origin like a residence. By staying at such transitory places accustomed relations of settled people can be reversed. The places are temporary whilst the condition of movement, staying in public transportation, escort of luggage or the locomotion by machines and one's own muscle power proof to be consistent It is the changing conditions that bring a traveller or a visitor especially close to those conditions and regulations that rule the public space and which go un-noticed in daily routine. The |
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| This exhibition is the 03. for the year project shared space 2009 of the EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V. | |
| Supported by the department for culture, sports and media of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg and district office Wandsbek | |