Ost West Späti
My approach to the Berlin Wall Narratives project is from immigration perspective. Not necessarily to examine the portraits of immigrants but rather gathering the concerned notions in one room. For starting this project I wanted to search for an under topic regarding my own interests so that I came up with the idea of immigration/migration. This project specifically aimed to comprehend guest workers.
What is really interesting from my point is that the guest worker programs were thought to cover a certain period. That meant, one day all guest workers residing in Germany will turn back to their country, however it did not happen as expected. When it comes to interrogating the notions east-west, unification, politics, narratives, poetics, guest workers, migration, immigration to search for a space in the city for my installation, I found a room which has a quite historical roots here in this culture: Spätverkauf -Late Night Shop-. My main intention to use this place is that it continues to exist at the present day by witnessing all these historical narratives. A place, which became part of people’s everyday life and where, there is a collective consciousness of all these past processes.
What is really interesting from my point is that the guest worker programs were thought to cover a certain period. That meant, one day all guest workers residing in Germany will turn back to their country, however it did not happen as expected. When it comes to interrogating the notions east-west, unification, politics, narratives, poetics, guest workers, migration, immigration to search for a space in the city for my installation, I found a room which has a quite historical roots here in this culture: Spätverkauf -Late Night Shop-. My main intention to use this place is that it continues to exist at the present day by witnessing all these historical narratives. A place, which became part of people’s everyday life and where, there is a collective consciousness of all these past processes.
Spätverkaufs actually played an important role for those who continued to stay here in Germany - and forgot to turn back to their lands - to reveal their entrepreneurial identities and assets. So that nowadays when we look at the statistics, we see seventy percent of Spätiverkauf owners have foreign identity.
In this installation, the form of the room - Ost West Späti - is processed in reference to the Berlin wall segments and this room positioned to display my video work, which tackles the issues “ostalgie” and homesick atmosphere
In this installation, the form of the room - Ost West Späti - is processed in reference to the Berlin wall segments and this room positioned to display my video work, which tackles the issues “ostalgie” and homesick atmosphere
exhibited at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
