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Park fiction

Park Fiction is an artistic and socio-political project in Hamburg that has existed since the mid-1990s .

The occasion

Residents of the area around the Pinnasberg in Altona-Altstadt and from the adjacent St. Pauli demanded a public park for their densely built-up area for the first time in 1994 instead of the intended residential and office development . They also wanted to from Rocko Schamoni launched Golden Poodle Club obtained, which was threatened with demolition (further details below Antoni Park ). The neighborhood initiative , which also included social institutions, the only school in the neighborhood and individual artists, made the first sketches for the park and advertised their project in the media. The Park Fiction project emerged from this complex collaboration .

Part of the park, in the background the St. Pauli Church

The project

The artists Christoph Schäfer and Cathy Skene , invited by the Hamburg cultural authority to develop a project for art in public space , wrote a concept for park fiction in coordination with the Hafenrandverein and carried out various events on the topic, including a. Walkman tours, lectures on “Parks & Politics”, exhibitions, workshops, discussions and a “garden library”.

In 1997 a planning container was set up on site. Residents of all ages participated with ideas and drawings, conceived a. a. a pirate fountain, an open-air solarium, the magic carpet (a wave-shaped piece of lawn), a tulip-patterned tartan field, mobile palm islands or mailboxes for young people who want to receive uncontrolled mail. The artists and architects prepared planning sketches according to these specifications. A film by Margit Czenki ( Park Fiction - the wishes will leave the apartment and take to the streets , 1999) was shown locally and internationally. After exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin, Zurich and Biella, the project was also exhibited at Documenta11 in Kassel 2002.

The "Antonipark" was finally realized between summer 2003 and summer 2005.

In June 2013 the park was renamed " Gezi-Park Hamburg" as part of a solidarity rally for the protesters in Istanbul .

Artistic classification

The art project relates to the theory and practice of the Situationists ( urban planning ), the theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari , the metaphilosopher Henri Lefèbvre and the work of the conceptual artists Dan Graham and Stephen Willats . There is connection to expanded art concept of social sculpture of Joseph Beuys . Park Fiction organized the collective production of wishes, the public planning process for the park as a game. Instead of an autonomous plant, the project creates platforms for exchange and “tools” for joint production: a planning container, a “kneading office”, a dream archive, or the “Action Kit”, a portable planning studio. The jointly designed public space, the publications, the actions, created in cooperation with the residents themselves, form the work of art.

“The collective production of wishes is about redefining what the city is, about laying a different network over the city, appropriating the city, imagining how it could be different, and then playing after others Playing rules. "

- Christoph Schäfer in the film Park Fiction - the wishes will leave the apartment and take to the streets

Exhibitions

  • 2005 Groundworks, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh
  • 2003 Park Fiction presents: Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space, International Congress and Exhibition, Reeperbahn 1, Hamburg
  • 2002 Documenta11 , Kassel
  • 2001 Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto , Biella
  • 2000 Park Fiction - desires will leave the apartment and take to the streets, parking garage, Berlin
  • 1999 Park Fiction - desires will leave the apartment and take to the streets, Wienerkunstverein, Vienna
  • 1997 go on, Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • 1996 Park Fiction 4: One day the wishes will leave the apartment and take to the streets, group exhibition in public space, in apartments and shops around Hein-Köllisch-Platz and the desired park, Hamburg-St.Pauli

Publications

  • Christoph Schäfer , Cathy Skene: St. Pauli Elbpark 0-100% , in ANYP, No. 7, 1996
  • Cathy Skene: Park Fiction , in: ok: Location reference: construction or process , ed .: Hedwig Saxenhuber / Georg Schöllhammer, edition selene, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85266-068-8
  • AG Park Fiction: Aufruhr auf Ebene p , in: The art of public , Ed .: Marius Babias , Achim Könneke, Verlag der Kunst, Amsterdam, Dresden, 1998, ISBN 90-5705-091-9
  • Christoph Schäfer: The City Is Unwritten , in: Making Their Own Plans , p. 38 ff, Ed. Brett Bloom, Ava Bromberg, Whitewalls, Chicago, 2004, ISBN 0-945323-05-0
  • Christoph Schäfer: The city is unwritten , in: Art in urban space - Hegemony and the public , DresdenPostplatz / b-books, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-933557-61-5
  • Christoph Schäfer , Cathy Skene, Hafenrandverein: Rebellion on Level p , in Art and social change: a critical reader , Ed .: Charles Esche, William Bradley , Tate Publishing, London, in association with Afterall, New York. 2007, ISBN 978-1-85437-626-8

literature

  • Reinaldo Laddaga: Estética de la emergencia, La formacion de otra cultura de las artes , Ed .: Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires, 2006, ISBN 987-1156-44-8
  • Uwe Lewitzky: Art for everyone? , transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-285-6
  • Documenta 11 - Platform 5: Exhibition. Catalog. - Kassel 2003 - ISBN 3775790853
  • Christiane Mennicke: Park Fiction , in: Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition Kurzführer / Shortguide , Ed .: documenta GmbH, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, Kassel, 2002, ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
  • Astrid Weg: One day desires will leave the apartment: On interventionist and activist art , in: Stadt.Kunst , ed .: Heinz Schütz, Lindinger + Schmidt, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-929970-43-0
  • Hans-Christian Dany: What Park could all be , in: Critique , Heft 2, Munich 1996
  • Gunter Reski: You don't even get half a Hockney for such a beautiful park , in: Texts on Art , No. 24, 1996

Film, video

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Script: 30 years of Hamburger Hafenstrasse dradio.de from January 2, 2012
  2. ↑ indymedia: Park Fiction becomes Gezi Park Hamburg. , June 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ hh-in the middle: Davide Martello in Gezi Park Fiction / , July 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ park-fiction.net: Park Fiction becomes Gezi Park Hamburg - today, Sunday, June 16, 6 p.m. , park-fiction.net

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 46 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 26"  E