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IN BETWEEN - returning city's waste into free...
by Claudia Schmitz
Category: RE-act
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Title:
IN BETWEEN - returning city's waste into free...

Author:
Claudia Schmitz

Category:
RE-act

Description:
In Between, 2016-onging Berlin, NYC, Budapest, HongKong, Seoul .... video projection onto wind-activated sculptures made from found plastic bags, video|recycled plastic bags|multiple street installation with QR-Codes (dimensions variable) I return city's waste into free public art I reactivate waste by recycling found plastic bags into wind-activated sculptures. Collecting abandoned plastic bags, I re-form them as windsocks, windbags, and pneumatic sculptures. Installed in different cities (Berlin, New York, Budapest, Hong Kong, Seoul and others), they serve as three-dimensional, moving silverscreens for my videoprojections. Projected onto the half-transparent, moving surfaces, the videos take on a reality of their own and create a completely new variey of space – a new layer of reality on the intersection of a changing local urban everyday reality, documentation, video reality, and sculpture. In Between shows images from the Mediterranean, creating deeply ambiguous impressions of leisure and drowning, referencing the recent refugee crisis, but referring in a much wider sense to the feeling of a life with access to privilege versus existence without privilege: About moving and breathing space as opposed to being closed off in an airless space, about options and empowerment as opposed to being reduced to strugggle for the barest necessities of survival. It is about privilege and waste, abundance and misery, about geographic as well as social borders. It returns the city’s waste to the citizens in the form of free, public art.  
Description:
In Between, 2016-onging Berlin, NYC, Budapest, HongKong, Seoul .... video projection onto wind-activated sculptures made from found plastic bags, video|recycled plastic bags|multiple street installation with QR-Codes (dimensions variable) I return city's waste into free public art I reactivate waste by recycling found plastic bags into wind-activated sculptures. Collecting abandoned plastic bags, I re-form them as windsocks, windbags, and pneumatic sculptures. Installed in different cities (Berlin, New York, Budapest, Hong Kong, Seoul and others), they serve as three-dimensional, moving silverscreens for my videoprojections. Projected onto the half-transparent, moving surfaces, the videos take on a reality of their own and create a completely new variey of space – a new layer of reality on the intersection of a changing local urban everyday reality, documentation, video reality, and sculpture. In Between shows images from the Mediterranean, creating deeply ambiguous impressions of leisure and drowning, referencing the recent refugee crisis, but referring in a much wider sense to the feeling of a life with access to privilege versus existence without privilege: About moving and breathing space as opposed to being closed off in an airless space, about options and empowerment as opposed to being reduced to strugggle for the barest necessities of survival. It is about privilege and waste, abundance and misery, about geographic as well as social borders. It returns the city’s waste to the citizens in the form of free, public art.  
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