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//Concept// |
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Clothes hanging on streets, hanging out to dry in Italy and France show traces of the residents and at the same time ornament public spaces. Oyama sought to reconstruct this in Neukolln, Berlin.
The area has a high population of non-German-speaking foreigners and Germans who are mostly either retired or young and recently moved to the area.
Oyama visited schools, as well as youth, senior, womenfs, and neighborhood groups with a workshop trolley. Participants brought T-shirts and wrote or painted wishes on them. The T-shirts were then installed in the Kindl-Boulevard Shopping Center.
In exchange for the T-shirts, Oyama gave workshops and taught people how to fold paper cranes. |
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//Basic Data// |
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Location |
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Kindl-Boulevard Shopping Center, Hermannstr. 214 E216, 12053 Berlin, Germany |
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Exhibition |
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48 Stunden Neukölln, Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln, e.V., Center Management |
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Dimensions |
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Corridor 12m x 3m
Mobile L6m x B5m |
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Presentation duration |
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June 21 EJuly 21, 2008 |
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Workshop Period |
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May 15 EJune 13, 2008 |
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Number of participants |
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Approx. 400 P |
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3 E75 years old |
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T-shirts and undershirts brought by participants, paints, paper, steel, aluminum |
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Team |
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Becky, Jenny Johannsenn, Erin, Jan, Kamil, Axel |
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Sponsoring |
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Hertling GmbH & Co.KG, Die Kuriere Eurologistik Berlin, a-media/agentur fE kommunikation GmbH, Druckwerkstätten Osloer Straße |
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Kindl Boulevard Shopping Center, Berlin
Atrium
Mobile 6m (hight) x 5m (width)
Photo: Thomas Bruns |
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//Drop-in Workshops// |
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Drop-in workshop concept for WUNSCH WEAR
I visited schools, youth-, senior-, women’s-, and neighborhood-groups with a workshop wagon, which was attached to my bicycle. Participants wrote or painted (sometimes both) wishes on a T-shirt, which they brought.
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//Workshops with Senior Groups// |
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In Germany there is a saying that if one tells what one wishes, it does not come true. For this reason, many people hesitated to openly write down their wishes.
For workshops done with senior groups, several colorful paper strips were handed to each person. We decorated a tree with paper chains made with the strips, where wishes were written, but kept unseen.
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//Gallery// |
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Peace for Palestine
To be 18 again.
I wish that God would protect us.
To work in America.
For a wife.
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