Artist: Asian Dub Foundation
Title: Colour Line
Album: Community Music
Year: 2000

Today the colour line/ is the power line/ is the poverty line
Racism and imperialism work in tandem
And poverty is their handmaiden
Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty
Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world
Poverty and powerlessness are […]

Johannisstraße 25/01/07

All the pictures with descriptions can be viewed in high-resolution in my Flicker.

On Tuesday night (23/01/07) after two cold days of installing the project we returned to Weimar only to discover that the Jena police came to my house looking for me. The officers asked my flat-mate Jonas to tell me to call the police station as soon as I come home because they found a picture […]

All the pictures with descriptions can be viewed in high-resolution in my Flicker.
Sewage canal on Johannisstraße:

(un)Documented Disappearance was installed on Monday and Tuesday (22-23/02/07).
All the pictures with descriptions can be viewed in high-resolution in my Flicker.
The installation of the project happened on the coldest day of the year we have had so far this year. In -8 degrees (Celsius) we picked up the sewage covers and set up the photos […]

At the end of our visit at Freienbessingen Refugee Camp, we had coffee Nazim’s and a friend and neighbor of Osman. Nazim who is in a similar situation, lives in a very small apartment with his whole family for many years and was waiting for permission to work. Nazim, who is from Macedonia, showed […]

This is the poster and invitation to the projects of my whole class. I’m number 7.
So click to see what the rest are doing; and if you are in Jena, stop by.

On Friday I visited Freienbessingen Refugee Camp to find people who were interested in participating in my project. The visit to the camp was sad and disturbing.
As you can see in the picture below, the camp is out in the middle of nowhere, the nearest town is the village of Freienbessingen which is 3 km […]

The project (un)Documented Disappearance will be installed in Jena on January 22 until February 4th.
Locations:
1. Main location: Johannisstraße.
2. Sewage entrance under the tower (pulverturm)
3. Johnnisplatz
4. Löbderstraße corner of Kollegiengasse
The documentation of the project will be presented in the Jenoptic gallery from the 2nd of February. The address and opening times will be posted soon.

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Licht kann die Aufmerksamkeit auf Verstecktes richten, einen Lichtstrahl auf Probleme lenken, die sonst im Dunkeln behandelt werden. In den Abwässersystemen der Städte gibt es keine Beleuchtung, denn die Gesellschaft will nicht mit den dort umhertreibenden Resten ihrer Konsumption, mit ihrem Müll konfrontiert werden. Die dunklen Tunnel sollen diese Reste wegtransportieren, aus unserem Blickfeld hinaus. […]