As we’re going to talk about national identity once more on Tuesday, I’d like to point Christoph Büchel out to you. He is an artist, born in Switzerland, and for his recent exhibition Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammar) he worked on German National Identity. Just to show you an example of an artistic approach to our favourite topic.
An installation shows “typical” german environments, artefacts, traces of everyday life. Detailed in-depth and hyperrealistic. People can walk through it and the diffenrence between fake and fiction is hard to find, if you are not informed - quite similar to the idea in the first concept the german group wrote. And while walking through it, subtly, you get an idea of the history and current political and social structures in the country (the catalog says).
The museums rooms were made available for various interim uses. The new occupants at the Fridericianum include a branch of the discount store Mäc-Geiz, a gaming arcade, a tanning studio and a fitness centre. One whole wing was used as an event venue for the first fair showcasing the German political parties, the “politica”. In another wing, the torn-up files of the former German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security are being re-constructed.
Eh voila - he shows identitiy manifestated in space.
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/arts/design/16robe.html?_r=1
margret
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