A few days without people, and nature begins to reclaim the city. If the pumps lose power, the subway shafts flood, the temperature in the buildings is no longer controlled, the windows burst, and if the expansion joints in the bridges are left untreated, the ice cracks them open. While Nach uns 1 documents the decay, Nach uns 2 poses the question of whether the creatures that will colonize the city after us might transform it into a more beautiful place.
Berlinage #1
Stadtkörper (City Body)
In this work I want to examine the interaction between the human body and the city.
How does my body interact with the city? How do our energy-streams interact (in creating the city)?
I worked with City Maps – represaentations of structure and movement, that, cut out, are freed from their symbolic function and transformed into filigree moving sculptures, creating a constantly changing interplay of light and shadow. With their fine orbits, condensations and junctions they also resemble the structure of the human nervous system.
Bettina, artist, writer, editor form Berlin.
I discovered the joy of – collectively and individually – exploring place in collage in an artist residnency in Sanquhar Scotland in April 2023, organized by Kolaj Magazine. I immediately decided to organize a collage artist get together in my hometown.
I have worked for many years as an editor for Berlin magazine Zitty, exploring the city and writing about it, getting to know it quite well. Berlin is so complex, multi-layered, contradictory and chaotic that collage seems to me the perfect medium to capture it.