Proposal for an invited competition "Denkzeichen lebenswerte Stadt", Kultur-Mitte, Berlin
Any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
The work focuses on all pedestrians in the form of markings on the floor. The markings extend over both areas designated to the competition and the space in between. 12 colored lines that reference street markings are proposed to be installed on the floor. The position and lengths of the markings are located based on the movements of passers-by on site.
The lines will be irritating and remind on crossing lines that have shifted in terms of color and space. The lines cross out (like crossing something out with a pen). They're stitching something together (like band-aids or sutures a wound). They mark and specify. [...] The visible marking serves as a suggestion for passers-by, as an interruption of their own well-trodden path and as a visual experience. It relates the self to the environment. Where am I walking? On, next to, across the line? Do I have to take this path? Could I walk differently, take my time? Make a different decision?” Part of the art budget is to be reserved for a "digital / performative addition to the spatially located artistic work", for which initial ideas have already been developed (including a series of artistic walks and impulse lectures in the form of walks with invited experts to continue the current discourse on urban space specifically in this area which is about to be developed as a flagship area for short-distance mobility).