Susanna HERTRICH
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Research Residency Program
update: 2019.11.7
Susanna Hertrich
| Participating Project | Research Residency Program |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | Germany |
| Period | 2012.7 - 2012.9 |
Purpose of the residency
This residency adds to my activities of around 'urban fiction': a series of works centered around cities and stories about how cities could be like - in the future or an alternative present. Being at Tokyo Wonder Site allows me to form an intercultural team with Japanese artist/designer Tomoko Hayashi. Combined as a team, we see a high potential to add unusual and surprising answers to a debate about a contemporary idyll. Our collaboration allows us to exchange our different views and perspectives and come to surprising solutions.
Plan during the residency
This project focuses on the longing for an idyll in megacities. An investigation exploring Tokyo as a metropolis, the urban mega-city: one of the fastest cities in the world with one of the highest population densities. Tomoko and I want to ask if and how artistic installations can conjure up a sensation of idyll in public space. Is there a way to implement idyllic experiences into a mega-city? We want to create a vision of a future city that offers poetic retreats to its citizens. We will explore the city, communicate and share thoughts with its citizens and bring our ideas as experiments-in-making back to the streets. Our investigations take occidental views on idyll into consideration, as well the Japanese notion of 'kachofugetsu'.
