Travel Route Boutique / 08
Participative Artistic Intervention, Kaliningrad 008.
This intervention in Kaliningrad that aimed to interrogate both the realities and dreams of the local inhabitants, who are facing the border-regulations and visa applications as an unfortunate but necessary step for going abroad.
The project surveyed both pattern and imagery of travel by using the bureaucratic questionnaire as research tool for intervening in the process of place construction that Kaliningrad is facing.
It resulted in an encounter that took form in a fictive travel agency and followed the frame of the visa questionnaires in the context of the local German Consulate. Archive and documentation were a further step for contextualising and reflecting upon the project.
Incongruous Site / 08
Essay in images and sound
Audio-visual collage of Interviews, texts, dérive, audio and video recordings about Kaliningrad’s urban fabric.
Incongruous:
not harmonious in character, inconsonant, unbecoming, lacking harmony
site:
the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located
Realised 007/08 within the research programme EU Urbanism: Border Cities, at the invitation of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany
Kaliningrad Identity Making / 08
DVD
Small trailer based on interviews with
protagonists of Kaliningrad, from the fields of art, politics, urbanism, geography and architecture.
The questions dealt with Kaliningrad’s own identity and its own gaps between Russia and the European Union.
Realised 007/08 within the research programme EU Urbanism: Border Cities, at the invitation of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany
Ein Steg für Ravensbrück / 07-08
on-site installation
Installation at the Memorial of Ravensbrück utilising natural material from the surroundings with additional sound installation based on interviews with inhabitants of the nearby town.
The construction of a temporary footbridge on the lake which divides and connects the former concentration camp to the town, stands for the ambivalences present in contemporary awareness of memory.
Collaborative work with Sabe Wunsch, Silke Bauer and Zala Unkmeier.
Forced Sex-Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps / 07
exhibition, artistic research
Artistic Research, Concept and Realisation within the research group memoArt (Dominique Hurth, Irina Novarese, Sabe Wunsch, Zala Unkmeier) of the exhibition “Forced Sex-Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps” in the memorial of Ravensbrück.
Exhibited 007 in:
Memorial of Ravensbrück
Memorial of Neuengamme
South-East History Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Lebenswege / 06
exhibition, workshops, mediation
The pilot project “Lebenswege” took place in six different schools in Berlin. Teenagers from different backgrounds queried their parents and extended family about their paths of life, and questioned historical events within these biographical patterns.
Through several workshops, different objects were created by the teenagers in order to respond to the narratives they gathered. These objects have been shown in the exhibition at the Communication Museum in Berlin (Nov. 006).
Working Group (IFKIK, Udk Berlin):
Filiz Azak, Silke Bauer, Dominique Hurth, Dšrte Meyer, Viola Thiele, Sabe Wunsch und Xixin Wu.
secret service / 08-present
Since the 5th berlin biennal of contemporary art, 2008, a group of cultural producers have been working in the mediation field under the name secret service.
The Berlin’s team has been working in different institutions, and developed participative and classic format tours within the exhibitions, as well as organising several workshops with different social groups: teenagers, school pupils and former prison inmates; or more recently actions in public space.
Agents undercover in Berlin: Katharina Dietz, Anne Fäser, Carsten Horn & Dominique Hurth
