Streams of passers-by stretch out in spatial relation to each other. You move beside other people, encountering other pedestrians, following someone in the same direction, sometimes even using the same trace as the person in front of you - just unconsciously, approaching somebody or meeting someone in the plaza; you leave buildings or objects behind you, and so on. The layout of the plaza influences the movements through its structure and organization. But it is not only the layout and the architecture that gives the place its structure. It is the movement and all the spatial relations in between all the moving subjects and objects that give the central plaza its intrinsic logic. In the Patelnia underground, the metropolitan element of Warsaw clashes with its provincial element (Joanna Kusiak, 2012: ...). Street sellers, standing in the middle of the platform, have an impact on the movement of the Varsovians rushing to metro station on their way to work.
Płocka (Movement Space)
The movement which takes place every day follows the given spatial and architectural elements and forms an additional invisible space within and in relation to the architecture. This movement space is shaped through an aggregation of moves over a longer period and usually has soft, round edges, as corners are generally avoided by people. After observing and tracking the daily paths between rooms and objects in the apartment in Płocka Street in Warsaw Poland, I moulded the body of movements with its soft round edges in silicone.
Alle Fortbewegungen
und Handlungen über einen längeren Zeitraum
zu einer Gleichzeitigkeit räumlich zusammengefasst,
ergeben den Bewegungsraum innerhalb der Wohnungseinrichtung.
Das Silikonobjekt ist eine abstrakte
Annäherung an meinen Bewegungsraum in der Ulica
Plocka der Jahre 2009-2011.
Movement Space (Płocka), 09.12.2011, pencil on paper, 42 x 29.7 cm
Płocka (Movement Space), 2012, Silicon, 9 x 27 x 50 cm
Płocka (Movement Space), 2012, Silicon, 9 x 27 x 50 cm