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MUSEUM PLATTE (ZÜRICH, 2002-3)
After the Cabaret Voltaire eviction, our crew, complete with Dadaist furniture stocks that we rescued from police violence, were homeless for months. We met up in
parks and much too small living rooms in order to discuss the search strategy for a new home for our collective cause. In July 2002, after several unsuccessful attempts
at squatting, we finally found what we‘d been looking for: the former Department of Romance Languages of the Zurich University in the Plattestrasse 32.
Due to its
size and location it was an ideal place for our 30-member group to be merging creative arts and the art of living for the next two years. This long the social sculpture
proliferated here undisturbed, incorporating guests of different ages and origins. Persons, who under normal circumstances would not set foot in a squat, became
our regular visitors. Pastor Leumund and I contacted the Department of geriatric institutions and organized an intergenerational project, during which we filled the
community room of an old people‘s home with props and scenery and took staged photographs with the residents. Afterward we invited the enthusiastic ladies to a tea
and dance party in Plattestrasse.
ARTISTS: Agniesszka Guzeg / Ajana Calugar / Andres Lutz / Athene Galiziadis / Anika Paezoldt
Ariel Zumstein / Bang Goes / Bella Angora
Biopop / Boris von der Burg / Clemens Torggler
Christian Falsnaes / Christina Golland / Der Tante Renate / Derek Al Ramsy / Dominik Locher / Edy Baur / Elektra Sturmschnell / Enrique / Etrit Hasler
Evita / F.S. Blumm / Fake Masters / Herr Blum
Ingo Giezendanner / Knarf Rellöm / Mariola Brillowska / Mark Divo / Mickry 3
Miroz / Mirzlekid / Orange Drive / Pascal Häusermann / Pastor Leumund / Petra Wild / Ricoloop / Serena Florsheim / Silvan Leuthold / Stina Kasser / Stini Arn Styro
2000 / Svenja Plaas / Sista Esta / Tanja Roscic
Thala Linder / The Hot Synchopators / Thomas Leeman / Tobias Hoffmann / Ursina Klemenz / DJ Gürü / Veronica Wenzel
Xeno Volcano / Zaccheo Zilioli
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A PROJECT TO ADVANCE ARTISTIC COLLABORATION BETWEEN GENERATIONS (OCTOBER 2002 – JUNE 2003 / MUSEUM PLATTE)
In Autumn 2002 Pastor Leumund and I decided to combine and realize our previously
separate common ideals under the battle cry of “Forever Both” from Cabaret Voltaire.
We contacted the authorities for old peoples homes in Zürich where the idea for a
generation bridging art project could be done and were immediately given the names
of 3 different old people’s homes.
In the Oberstrasse and Kluspark homes we brought
a grammaphone and records with us and to the interview and discussed questions like
“What is art and who decides what it is?” and “What differentiates modern art from
what has gone before and why?” In spite of this we could not actually convince the
assembled inhabitants that it would make sense to work together with young artists for
common ideas to develop and realise staged photographs. Our third presentation took
us to the studio in the Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhaus where the leader/director, Jacqueline de
Ridder mustered interested seniors. Ruth von Fischer, whose tapestries had created
quite a furore at the 1964 state fair in Lausanne suggested creating a scene in a hat
shop after August Macke.
Within a few days using glue, cardboard and some props
we had turned the conference room into a twenties style hat shop. However for the
production the female pensioners wanted a male model to purchase a hat. Hannes, the
charming young gitarrist in the Berliner Swingband “Hot Synchopators” who were then
living in Plattenstrasse spontaneously offered to fulfil their wish. The ladies visited the
Museum Platte twice with the home’s shuttle bus for a tour and afternoon coffee in the
lounge and listened there to young piano virtuosos. Following the vernissage when the
results of the project were presented the “Hot Synchopators“ played at a tea dance
in the Bürgerasyl-Pfrundhauses’ dining room.
We recognised the lost potential of
exchange between the generations in a society increasingly divided by age and intend
again to organise age bridging events and projects in a artistic context.