w//e is an open-ended, non-disciplinary, non-representational, real-time, long-duration art & life research project by jagna anderson & dodi helschinger exploring caesuras and relations.
the former Berlin Wall is a strange gap, a scar, still dividing – or glueing together? – the former West (Berlin) and former East (Germany).
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phase w//e
w//e are walking along this 160 km long trail between East and West as an artist couple:
one of us grew up in the Eastern block – in the Polish People’s Republic, the other one in West Germany. each of us has lived approximately as long with the wall as without it and now the wall is gone as long as it existed (1961-1989).
w//e have started interested in the present state:
what is happening to the city at both sides of the gap?
how is the soundscape along the former border today?
what is the light, the vegetation there? the people? the atmospheres?
yet w//e keep finding ourselves walking in-between of time layers and thematic fields:
of history, memory, politics, ethics, biographical paradigms, relationships, possible futures
the wall trail is a heterotopic and heterochronic trail
while the simple quotidian act of walking shapes our thoughts, bodies and gives an ephemeral form to our lives,
w//e are asking on which side are we walking
or what does it mean to walk in between
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phase w//e can be us
w//e will invite further participants to walk with either of us
a 10 km long section of the wall trail
and to create together a new micro-utopia of w//e
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4 April 2018
Waldemar Straße – Bernauer Straße
6 April 2018
Bernauer Straße – Heinz-Brandt-Straße
8 April 2018
Heinz-Brandt-Straße – Veltheimstraße
10 April 2018
Veltheimstraße – Gralsburgsteig
17 April 2018
Gralsburgsteig – Hennigsdorf
18 April 2018
Hennigsdorf – Staaken
22 April 2018
Bhf Staaken – Ritterfelddamm / Gatow
3 May 2018
Ritterfelddam / Gatow – Wannsee
4 May 2018
Wannsee – Griebnitzsee
7 May 2018
Griebnitzsee – Benschallee
12 May 2018
Benschallee – Lichterfelde Süd
14 May 2018
Lichterfelde Süd – Lichtenrade
29 May 2018
Lichtenrade – Gropiusstadt
31 May 2018
Gropiusstadt – Rudow
17 June 2018
Rudow – Blaschkoallee
25 June 2018
Blaschkoalle – Lohmühlenplatz
27 June 2018
Lohmühlenplatz – Waldemarstraße
