In Between: , 2016-ongoing - BERLIN - NEW YORK CITY - BUDAPEST - CHEMNITZ (Karl-Marx-Stadt) - HONG KONG

SEOUL, TOKYO a.o.

video projection onto wind-activated sculptures made from found plastic bags

video|recycled plastic bags|multiple street installation with QR-Codes (dimensions variable)

 

Claudia Schmitz
In Between: , 2016-ongoing
Video projection onto wind-activated sculptures made from found plastic bags
video|recycled plastic bags|multiple street installation with QR-Codes (dimensions variable)

 

Schmitz reactivates waste by recycling found plastic bags into wind-activated sculptures. Collecting abandoned plastic bags, she re-forms them as windsocks, windbags, and pneumatic sculptures. Installed in different cities (Berlin, New York, Budapest, Hong Kong and others), they serve as three-dimensional, moving silverscreens for her videoprojections. Projected onto the half-transparent, moving surfaces, the videos take on a reality of their own and create a completely new variety 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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