Category: Actions 2010-2015

Channel Disco


 

Piguin man fishes poop sausages out of the sewage overflow. - The mermaid sings the
Pinguin man fishes poop sausages out of the sewage overflow. – The mermaid sings the “Lorely Song”
The sewage outlet is alive!
The sewage outlet is alive!

Art action at the sewage overflow No. 9846 at the Wildenbruch Bridge in Berlin, Neukölln, Schiffahrtskanal, Kiehlufer in the context of the “Art and Culture Festival 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN” 16.6.2012.

Tom Albrecht: Installation, performance and concept,
Amy J. Klement: Performance, Installation

We continued the “Making Bathwater” action from 2011 with installation, sound and performance. A two-hour lifeact. The scaled maiden from the sea acts on a raft with a comb and sings the Lorel song, the penguin man fishes for giant sausages, garlanded with tinsel.

Background

When it rains heavily, the sewer system overflows and a mixture of rain and sewage with fecal matter from streets, roofs and households flows into the sewer. Polluted canal water, oxygen deficiency, fish mortality, bathing prohibition are the result. Berlin has 160 “emergency outlets”. A misguided development of our urban development and the way we treat nature.
The few overflow reservoirs and the canal management of the water companies are not sufficient.

Our demands

The canals should get bathing quality again!
More roofs and the channel in shallow water zones need to be greened,
City areas to be unsealed,
Rain  seeps,
Ships create fewer waves,
Separate waste and storm sewers,
less wastewater has to be treated in an energy-intensive way.

Lost Brook

Lost Brook. Bäke, Berlin, 2013, action. Bäke, a brook that originated on the Fichteberg in Berlin Steglitz, was used for the course of the Teltow Canal, piped, used as a sewage overflow during heavy rains and embedded in stone. The inscription on its manhole covers makes it visible.
Lost Brook. Bäke, Berlin, 2013, Action. Bäke, a brook that originated on the Fichteberg in Berlin Steglitz, was used for the course of the Teltow Canal, was piped, used as a sewage overflow during heavy rainfall, and bedded in stone. The lettering on his manhole covers makes him visible.
Lost brook 2nd Bäke, Berlin, 2013, action. Bäke, a brook that originated on the Fichteberg in Berlin Steglitz, was used for the course of the Teltow Canal, piped, used as a sewage overflow during heavy rains and embedded in stone. The inscription on its manhole covers makes it visible.
Lost Brook 2.
Lost brook 3rd Bäke, Berlin, 2013, action. Bäke, a brook that originated on the Fichteberg in Berlin Steglitz, was used for the course of the Teltow Canal, piped, used as a sewage overflow during heavy rains and embedded in stone. The inscription on its manhole covers makes it visible.
Lost Brook 3.
Lost brook 4 Bäke, Berlin, 2013, Action. Bäke, a brook that originated on the Fichteberg in Berlin Steglitz, used for the course of the Teltow Canal, piped, used as a sewage overflow during heavy rain and embedded in stone. The inscription on its manhole covers makes it visible.
Lost Brook 4 .

To-have-space

Sein-Haben-Raum, 2014, Berlin GG3, action with guests, two times two chairs, sign, book
To-have-space, 2014, Berlin GG3, action with guests, two times two chairs, sign, book

Instruction

To-have-space

You can:

  • go in,
  • sit down on a chair “being” for three minutes, close your eyes and watch yourself see what you see,
  • sit down on a chair “having” for three minutes, close your eyes and watch yourself seeing and
  • write down what you have seen anonymously in the guestbook.

Being-Having-Room

  • You can go in,

  • sit three minutes on a chair “being”, close your eyes and watch yourself, what you see,

  • sit three minutes on a chair “having”, close your eyes and watch yourself, what you see and

  • may note what you have seen anonymously in the guestbook.

Result

Anonymous 1, Being-Having-Space, 2014, Berlin GG3
Anonymous 1, Being-Having-Space, 2014, Berlin GG3
Julia
Julia
Anonymous2
Anonymous2
Anonymous3
Anonymous3

 

GG3 as social sculpture

GG3 as Social Sculpture. As the founder and operator, I see this project as social sculpture in the Beysian sense. An art that pursues the claim to have a formative effect on society.

Group Global 3000 (GG3) opened Jan. 5, 2013, “Group Global 3000” for art and other sustainability project space.

Logo of the
Logo “Group Global 3000”. (C) T.A. We live like we have a second world.

Changing exhibitions, moderated talks, lectures, workshops. The 50th exhibition in 2019.

We offer space for more artists to run the space together for art and other sustainability.

Make bath water

 

Man with penguin mask pours sewer water through cloth into pool to bathe in it
Man with penguin mask pours sewer water through cloth into pool to bathe in it

Performance

18.6. and 19.6.2011
Berlin, Neukölln, shipping canal

Bathing in the Landwehr Canal

The bathroom at the front door was a matter of course until the 1950s, but today it is a dangerous luxury.  When it rains heavily, the sewer system overflows and a mixture of rain and sewage with fecal matter from streets, roofs and households flows into the sewer. Polluted canal water, oxygen deficiency, fish mortality, bathing prohibition are the result. An aberration in our treatment of nature.

The few overflow reservoirs and the canal management of the water companies are not enough.  The canals should get bathing quality again!  More roofs and the canal in shallow water zones must be greened, city surfaces must be unsealed, rain  must be infiltrated, ships must create fewer waves, wastewater and stormwater canals must be separated, less wastewater must be treated in an energy-intensive way.

We cleaned the water from the shipping canal and I bathed in it with the active participation of the guests.

Comments

“Great. Next year I’m going in! My dream : bathing in the Spree!!! ( a cousin did it in 1961 and I was small and heavily impressed; however the whole family declared him crazy and had to take a shower afterwards ) A.”

“Well, that was a happening of Jesuit dimenson. R.”

“…. I would have liked to have seen that, if only for nostalgic reasons: my father, a Neuköllner by heart and soul, always told us that he bathed in the canal as a boy. It gave him great pleasure and did him no harm. A.”