Perceivable leftovers and interferences in the grown image of the city have been documented during several walks along the north-south-connection. A map locates the identified places along this trajectory and a more detailed view from above adds the factor of time. The current situation is compared with a map showing the city pattern before the urban intervention of the railroad tracks that where carved in the historical center. This synthetical - time based - view allows to relocate the photographic documents and searches for a better understanding of urban disconnection. The degree of disturbance in comparison to the grown image of the city varies as the selected places are in a ongoing state of transformation and adaption - some might be disappeared already - others are obviously contrasted from their context. This slow process can be read as a sort of healing of the scar - nevertheless the crust is far from falling of the sensible skin. Time is a landscape and places become the artefacts. Only the classified cultural heritage is going to survive - a condition of built matter, frozen in a time where it doesn`t know what to do. The city is transformed into a museum and one extension follows the other...
The presented documentation of the decay of those sublime ruins should not be read as a call for preservation or romantisation of the informal but as an attempt to relativize the treatment of monuments by staging other places as such: a Denkmal as a sort of reminder as its etymological meaning describe a plastically sculpture within our cities to the cultural heritage of its inhabitants. We don`t have to look up the artificially aged stone facades of our cathedrals to appreciate the evolution of mankind. A stroll around the cityring, above the metro line along railroad-tracks or best randomly around the city mostly tells us more from the past then we would imagine... Intervention The odd spatial configurations along brussels scar, their surreality and interruption of the common image of the city structure serve as content and basis for the presented appropriations. City lightening in the common sense follows mainly commercial, touristic or safety reasons and stages architectural icons. The night and its natural darkness puts certain elements of the nocturnal city into oblivion, disappearing in our collective memory. A series of interventions along brussels scar is approaching those second-rate places within the centre of our cities in a new light and treats them as disturbed architectural monuments telling us from their past and possible future. A mobile projection unit serves as portable instrument for staging public space. The documentation of the urban acts is presented as an audiovisual feature video with a soundtrack by element012 (stubenmusicstudio, AT).
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