Film still © Claudia von Funcke
The densification and explosion of urban space constantly gives rise to new dispositions, complexities, and contradictions. Cities grow feverishly, both horizontally and vertically, exhibiting more movement than stability, oscillating between change and stability. They are agitation, circulation, vibration, and fragmented totality all at once—ideally, an open and fluid system.
The city is a laboratory and workshop, trial and error, madness and normality. The city is simultaneously a large-scale sculpture and a total work of art, an assembly room, a temporary arrangement, a daily new event: a possible projection surface for political and social utopias, situated somewhere between overload and normality, between complete irrationality and its own reality.
The city and architecture are increasingly understood as a medium of diagnosis, as a place where rules and deviations, questions and answers to the demands of ever shorter time spans must be tested. Focus and perspectives can and must be constantly realigned.
In the work DACH | BODEN (ROOF | FLOOR), a two-channel video projection is projected onto the ceiling of the open-air stage at the Britz estate. Pavement, streets, escalators, ceiling structures, and overhead power lines in the air merge into one another. Up and down are suspended, both are intertwined vertically, and the viewer is led astray. The ground sways, the city is turned upside down and reinvents itself.
