Der Beitrag Everything everywhere and all the time! erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Der Beitrag Penguins are watching you erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

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.

Der Beitrag Channel Disco erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

2012
Berlin
Preliminary work to establish Group Global 3000.

Der Beitrag Free market erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Der Beitrag Lost Brook erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Der Beitrag Happening “Yes Logo” erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Videos:

Der Beitrag Playing with globes erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Der Beitrag You never walk alone erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

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

Der Beitrag To-have-space erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

Video, 0:48 Min.

Der Beitrag Horseweed erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

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.

Der Beitrag GG3 as social sculpture erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.

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.”

Der Beitrag Make bath water erschien zuerst auf Tom Albrecht.