Fukushima |
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Performance/Video zum Jahrestag von Fukushima (12.03.2012) von Fukushima:
Performance for 100 artworks from the world for Fukushima Monika Radhoff-Troll, Michaela Frank, Ed Hanssen zum Video |
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Wapo Carpet
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plastic stream On a selected place squares of knitted plastic bags are laid out. Plastic products are a part of our modern civilization and cover the ecosystem all over the world. Even in the oceans you can find plastic and micro-particles of plastic moving as a large plastic stream - beaches are a mixture of grains of sand and fine particle-granulate of plastic. Microbiological testing shows, that the micro-particles also become part of the food chain. |
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African Dinner The daily ingestion is important for every human being and part of our life. Theme of this installation is "African Dinner" a commonly laid table, ready for a meal. Depending on economy and cultural conditions of a society, daily meals take place in different ways. Where people are grateful to have something to eat, the way to eat or the sort of food isn’t important. But, with the increasing cultural development and a more important gastronomy culture, the way you take part at a meal and the quality of the meal itself develops. The higher development of a dining culture causes a higher requirement of resources and goods, to ensure the quality of food. Since a long time, we can´t ensure quality by our own resource capacity. Currently the old system of colonization seems to happen again on the African continent – the industrialized countries satisfy their needed amount of resources. They buy land and make contracts, not looking on the needs of the countries population or the needs of nature greed and striving for power lead to further problems and wars. What is left is an exploited continent, a suffering population and a flood of fleeing people, trying to survive under inhuman conditions. |
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climatic change
Identical colours and similar material of objects and surfaces adds to the effect of the homogeneous picture.
The attraction is increased by the recognition value of the installed objects. The viewer loses himself in corresponding
the objects to their former origin and may be he associates a day at the beach. A situation lots of people know,
where objects are forgotten or washed up. Confrontated with the title “climatic change” the first impression is taken ad absurdum. What has happened? As seen by the archeological excavation in Pompeji we take a look at a snap-shot. Perhaps someone opened a door and discovered the objects. Our highly cultured civilization, covered with a layer of sand. Has there been a sandstorm, a flood? The cause is insignificant as the remaining objects are now useless The twinkling of an eye, the freak of nature suffices. The same situation has effected Bangladesh, where flash flooding happens very often. If climatic change continues, many more countries and islands will suffer. |
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