Jungle on Display: Munich

The English Garden: Munich

Time Under Construction: Munich

Touch and Go - Cristina Lucas - Video

 

 

Above some screenshots from the video installation ‘Touch and Go’ by Cristina Lucas. I saw this video during a presentation of Utrecht2018 and it directly caught my attention. No more speeches for me, I was lured into the video. You see ordinary people throwing stones through the windows of an abandoned industrial building. It probably has all kinds of deeper meanings about capitalism, derelict buildings and empowerment, but I’m just fascinated by: The unexpectedness. The act of throwing. The joy of broken glass. And the different looks of the young and elderly stone-throwers: grins, hope, despair, playfulness and above all determination. It’s all in there. Unluckily, I didn’t find the video on Youtube or Vimeo, so you’ll leave with some screenshots. 

Pictures taken by Kap'n'Kaos

An empty space full of meaning

This is the concept of a publication I wrote together with B. Spierings for the magazine 'Geografie'. For more information about the project and photo's of the exhibition see: the cuvrybrache.

‘Kegeln’ and ‘Chillen’ - Berlin, One Building: Different worlds.

It is wednesday evening in Berlin. Spontaneously we decide to play skittles. One of us knows a place, which is close to Potsdammerplatz in a typical seventies high-rise. Following the old signs we find our way to the basement, to the Verein Berliner Sportkegler (VBS). Stepping inside means stepping into the past. It smells so mouldy, it’s as if the air has been stored here since the seventies. The totally brown coloured interior completes the picture.

Urban Nature

On the edges of districts less defined pieces of land can be found. These terrain vagues have different characteristics in comparison to the well-designed inner-city areas. In fact, they offer opportunities for temporary use and may enrich the biodiversity of a city. The latter is the case in Tilburg. In the middle of the city there is a small area of no-man’s land. In between the railway station and a garden there is a strip of wilderness. Trees and bushes just grow wildly.