[Translate to Deutsch:] Bokyung Jun

< A-NOT-HER-LAND >

[Translate to Deutsch:] < A-NOT-HER-LAND >

When I arrive in Berlin, I was surprised that so many people came from different countries.

There might be several reasons that people choose to come to here, Berlin as leaving their mother’s countries. That can be political, economic, religious, cultural, or personal reasons. They might dream of utopia, the 3rd land, which can be only exist in one’s ideal world.

The border that is existing in time and space not naturally but artificially-by the power relationship. The wall between the East and the West Berlin as well as the line between the North and the South in Korea shows this artificial border clearly.

The project, I am pursuing in ZK/U, <A-NOT-HER-LAND> is comparing two countries’ history about separation by outer force as well as ideology. I will create a woman’s story who search for the 3rd land, another land. This is deeply based on the Korean writer Choi, In Hun’s novel, “the square”. Through the concept of the square and the room, not only the ideological relationship between human beings and social conditions but also the meaning of truth can be questioned in this project.  

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[Translate to Deutsch:] Michelle Houston

THE WHOLE IS PHANTOM; IN COLLABORATION WITH COLOMBO’S WIFE

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THE WHOLE IS PHANTOM; IN COLLABORATION WITH COLOMBO’S WIFE

Cities are littered with ideas for social reform. I, along with my collaborator; Colombo’s wife from the 1970’s TV series Colombo, set about to explore constructed realities, the places of in-between marked only by their banality and generic interior spatial qualities. They are (semi) public places embedded in everyday culture and in plain sight and situated within the familiar. It's after the gold rush, we reach for the divine, the numinous, the requiem in pixels and bytes, teleported by screensavers.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Sixten Sanne

Capitalisation of public space & city planning in Scandinavia

[Translate to Deutsch:] Capitalisation of public space & city planning in Scandinavia

I will present a small documentation of a historical perspective on city planning & urban furniture in Scandinavia, as part of my initial participation in the Hacking Urban Furniture project, and I will be showing a perspective of the city of Trondheim, Norway as a comparison to Berlin.

How would you change the public space, and what would you want to use it for?

Please come in to my studio and let me know what you would like to do!

[Translate to Deutsch:] Yunju Park

<Far Far away> , performative installation and single channel video 05'45", 2016

[Translate to Deutsch:] <Far Far away> , performative installation and single channel video 05'45", 2016

The work is about the story of a person who has lived in Germany now, but came from South Korea long long times ago.

The narrative process in this story is combination between fact and fiction. All environment in the stage is accident and intended as well.

The natural power, specially the gravity is used as the methodology for this performance. The reason of the natural movement in this video is much more related to the ending of the story. the personal stuffs are thrown away to the sky as far as they can, but they have to fall dawn to the ground naturally. Naturalness is sometimes relatively different interpreted, but finally everything have to go back to the place where they come from. This is the main concept of this work.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Rebecca Digby

I WROTE PEN

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While researching social potential of digital imagery I came across an unexpected obstacle: a possessive emotion related to my work process. Disappointed in the un-ideological behavior of my feelings I noticed how the hyper-object of capitalism in constant flow through my synapses was painfully exposed. I was so happy playing subject-object- image with myself.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Bo Wang

[Translate to Deutsch:] Three videos with excerpts from Traces of an Invisible City, a project investigating into the urban space of Hong Kong as a showcase of the hidden logics of globalization, capitalism and historical changes of today’s world cities. Each looping video characterizes a kind of space: the global, the local and the border space.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Nomadic Art with Nina Prader

Memory Games

[Translate to Deutsch:] With her "memory tool”,  MemoryGames, Nina Prader invites people of various ages to a dialogue in which personal as well as collective memories and perspectives with regard to history or historical knowledge are shared with one another.

MemoryGames is made up of a set of cards that are "played with" in small groups. However, in contrast to the classical memory game, having to do with uncovering a matching pair of pictures, in the case of MemoryGames, there are no identical pictures. On the contrary, it's abstract motifs act as triggers, intended for the purpose of association, encouraging the participants to tell their own stories and enter into dialog in order to find shared stories. Consequently, the "game" mainly unfolds by way of talking: MemoryGames is a storytelling and conversation tool to participate in a commemoration culture in a "playful" manner. Sessions will be moderated by nomadicArt collective members: Tanja Knaus, Nico Concha as well as Nina Prader.