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Simone Rueß (2021). de-re-konstrukt – "Lass uns von vorne beginnen...", pp. 98-107
Simone Rueß (2021). de-re-konstrukt – "Lass uns von vorne beginnen...", pp. 98-107
The seminar group interacts in both physical and digital space. They leave traces in the city as well as virtually, which are made accessible to viewers on Instagram and hotglue.me.
In the seminar “Handlungsraum analog/digital”, we examined the relationship between digital and analog spaces as a group of students from different disciplines. The starting point was joint reflections on personal and collective spaces. Using the Telegram app, we were able to digitally link our everyday analog actions. Reactions to each other and interactions with each other were at the center of the exchange. The physical actions thus repeatedly merged with the virtual ones. The themes addressed included spatial boundaries, interactions between distance and presence and communication channels.
An overview and structure of the resulting action networks was then developed on the Miro-Board platform. While the focus on Telegram was primarily on linearity, direct communication and the temporal juxtaposition of actions, the whiteboard became a medium for subsequent reflection. The images, drawings, texts, objects, voice messages, audio files and videos could be arranged there and brought into context. Die Seminargruppe interagiert im physischen sowie im digitalen Raum. Sie hinterlässt dabei Spuren sowohl in der Stadt als auch virtuell, welche für Betrachter*innen auf @Instagram und @hotglue.me zugänglich gemacht werden. (text: students)
The exhibition de-re-konstrukt summarises two years of collaboration between the artists Simone Rueß and Krzysztof Franaszek. Friends for many years, they explore urban and social transition in Warsaw and Berlin. Faced with the pandemic, their cross-border project has taken on new meanings and dimensions while the concept and execution of the exhibition has been changing and evolving. Investigating processes of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, the artists encourage us to embrace new encounters and open dialogue, both individual and social.
In 2018, I collected mental images of home in my INhabit project with the help of around 60 narrative interviews from Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, the Czech Republic, Germany, Thailand, etc. During the lockdown, for many „home“ became a home office. Professional and private activities all took place in the same place. In 2020, I juxtapose the mental images from 2018 with new conversations with the same interviewees. These are presented on posters at bus stops during the festival in the public space „ADAPTACJE"
in Gorzów Wielkopolskie (2021), curated by Marta Gendera.
A. A. is a writer and dentist born in Deir Ezzor, Syria. He grew up in the Ar Raqqa region, which is characterized by a cultural and linguistic intermingling. In Damascus he pursued his studies and his profession. After a short stay in Mauritania, A. A. left Syria forever in 2013 and fled to Germany via Beirut (2015). In 2018, his family came to Germany. After successful language courses and medical exams, A. A. works now in Berlin as a dentist.
With A. A., we had our first space/biography conversation in 2016. Later we met again in 2021 and 2023. In continuing conversations we reflect on the changes in spatial biographical perceptions. In this drawing series from 2021, we can follow reflexions on geopolitical caesuras and social structures.
2018, Adele Giacoia related the city Rome with the meaning of home and described it as a large, open labyrinth structure of books that you can walk through. 2020, the same city, Rome, was still connected with the meaning of „home“, but now Adele Giacoia created a mental image of a DNA-like structure, where you could only walk through mentally with the help of your memory.
Inhabit 2018/2020: During my residency and exhibition at the Triennale di Milano, 2018, I collected, in the form of narrative interviews, over 60 mental images of home, from people from Europe, Taiwan, Israel, etc. During the pandemic lockdown 2020, for many people, the home became the home office. Professional and private activities took all place in the same place. I met my interviewees of 2018 again, this time virtually, and I asked for their current mental image of home in times of pandemic lockdown. Transformed into drawings, the contrasts between the ideas of home from 2018 and 2020 are presented on posters at bus stops during the festival in public space "Adaptacje" in Gorzów Wielkopolskie, 2021.
