Transit of Transformation
Train stations, hotel rooms, airport terminals, hospitals: places like these have long been part of our everyday lives. They are transit places - places where we stay without staying. Marc Augé calls them "non-places", Peter Sloterdijk "no-man's places". But in times of globalization and mobility, these places, fused into hypercultural transit spaces, offer what a conventional conventional place may no longer be able to rent, a place of deceleration, a stop, a refuge. The artistic work focuses on the dependence of man in his infrastructures on mobility and communication. High-speed trains , communication, rhythm. But also the atmosphere of transit and refuge in the so-called "no man's places". The interest of this work initially pursues an observation of individual train stations such as in Halle (Saale), Altenburg, Greiz, Weimar, Erfurt or Eisenach. What is the connection between acceleration and alienation, construction and destruction processes? As possible formats of an artistic realization, performances in train stations and/or video and sound installations in public space can emerge.
References: Wilhelms, Lars: Transit-Orte in der Literatur Hartmut, Rosa: Beschleunigung und Entfremdung Marc Augé: Nicht-Orte