How will we live together?
Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy 2020/21 – TIME SPACE EXISTENCE European Cultural Centre, (ECC) Venice, Italy
the ocean begins under your feet. 2019/2021
this project is sponsored by the Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany + Palmyra Sculpture Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands + Aláro, Islas Baleares, Spain
Online catalogue: https://ecc-italy.eu/files/2021%20Cat%20Arch%2050mb.pdf
trailer/ film by Gudrun Brigitta Nöh 2021 https://vimeo.com/533590454
My project reflects the current situation of climate change. It is a call for more mindfulness and respect towards nature, especially water, the life-sustaining and life-giving element. Climate change does not differentiate people by skin color, religion or ethnicity, rich or poor. Climate change forces humanity to work together and requires contributions from everyone to make life in this world more livable.
I dedicate this project to the city of Venice. Venice was built on more than 100 small islands in an Adriatic lagoon, „on water“ and is in Europe today most directly affected by climate change, exploding tourism and the cruise industry.
That’s what my project is all about: „the ocean begins under your feet“, pay attention to where and how you go.
Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 „How will we live together“ TIME SPACE EXISTENCE European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo + Giardini Marinaressa
more than… 220 participants: universities, architecture firms and individual entrepreneurs, architects and artists from more than 80 countries around the world will show their work results, research projects and experiments on the theme „How will we live together“. A concentrated, uplifting and stimulating, exciting mixture of the most diverse ideas, designs sketches, thoughts and contributions.
What a difference to look at these drafts , this concentrated collection of the most different proposed solutions by mouse click online or to be in the middle of them, inside installations, pictorial and spatial sketches and thoughts, to wander between countries and to get lost in overwhelming drafts.
What a great pleasure to enter Palazzo Mora, to go up the steps around the corner after Corona formalities, even if I knew it, to suddenly in front of my own blue-glowing work that welcomes each visitor entering the palace. Pampin, Decembre. 2021
II. the projects space. Parchim. Lange Strasse 41 / public test, days before the trip to Venice 9.4.2021
16. March 2021 – the first project thoughts were developed in August 2019. „the ocean begins under your feet, pay attention and, where and how you go“ was my first formulation. In the course of the following months and the accompanying developments, it became clear to me, the sensitivity of this sentence and correspondingly its content statement becomes more accurate through a reduction, more comprehensive and open in the sense of the water cycle. „the ocean begins under your feet“ . 2021, now – while preparing the exhibition and renewed intensive examination I got confronted with the fact, we humans are water beings. In consequence, a further reduction: „I am the ocean“. This formulation moves the human being into the water, makes him a part of. The sense of responsibility grows naturally and it becomes radically clear, our way of dealing with the element water – affects us. „I am, We are Water“.
February 2021 – under the sign of the Corona Pandemic / It seems absurd to write about a topic like climate change, that no longer exists, that has simply disappeared. Not because it has become unimportant but because more important things are more important.
„The Ocean begins under your feet“. Pay attention where + how you go
I dedicate this project to the city of Venice. Venice was built on more than 100 small islands in an Adriatic lagoon, „on water“ and is in Europe today most directly affected by climate change, exploding tourism and the cruise industry.
The European Culture Centre writes on the 29.th of octobre 2019: „We congratulate you for the success of your summer exhibition: we looked at the photos from the link https://hundrich.de/i-am-landscape-2019/ and it seems a very interesting concept and idea which it would perfectly fit our Architecture exhibition.
The stile, the colors as well as the meaning behind are very original and uptodate and would perfectly embody the main topic of TIME SPACE EXISTENCE exhibition“. … „ We would love to showcase your installations: both of them are original and the topic treated is very interesting as well as updated. Both of them would add great value to our exhibition, however, in our opinion the 1st project dedicated to the city of Venice would be more of an impact.
In addition, the space you selected would be the most suitable one being in a very prominent position and cheering the visitors entering Palazzo Mora: in this way the people getting inside the building will read your artwork and get a clear and strong message before starting their walk in our Palazzo! …… Kindly note, we would really like to cooperate with you again and showcase your artwork, treating a sensible topic and being a very instagrammable installation: in these regards we would ask you if you already had in mind some ashtags linked to your artwork which can be used on socials. We thank you in advance and we stay at your disposal for any further assistance.“
My project meets the current situation of climate change, is an appeal to the responsibility of politics, architects, artists and people. A call for more attentiveness and respect towards nature, especially the water, the life-preserving and life-giving element.
I. Intro „This project illustrates the current situation of climate change, the responsibility of politics, architects, artists and people visiting this city and in their lives. At the same time, a bridging from this city to the current global situation of climate change, very easy to recognize the associated responsibility.
This is what this world is all about – responsibility for the future of this planet. Accordingly, I consider it extremely important that in this city of Venice and the Biennale for Architecture 2020, a clear signal is set which does justice to the global addition of this world. According to the theme: Time, Space + Existence“ Pampin, Sept.. 2019