ffountain
credits: Vera Gärtner
credits: Lisa Bergmann
credits: Lisa Bergmann
credits: Lisa Bergmann
ffountain floorplan. Gestaltung: Mio Kojima und Paulina Mimberg.
Credits: Lisa Bergmann
ffountain Zines
credits: Mio Kojima
Google Deep Dream Edit einer historischen Ansichtskarte des Brunnens am Stephanplatz (Sammlung Leis).
Weibliche Straßennamen in Karlsruhe. Ein faltbarer Stadtplan von Karlsruhe wurde auf Vorder- und Rückseite mit Farbe beschichtet.
credits: Vera Gärtner
Photomontage des Marktfrauen Denkmal in Karlsruhe.
credits: Vera Gärtner
Photomontage des Marktfrauen Denkmal in Karlsruhe.
credits: Vera Gärtner
Photomontage des Marktfrauen Denkmal in Karlsruhe.
credits: Vera Gärtner
Hebe und Große Badende, Karlsruhe, fotografiert mit Instagram-Facefilter „Shiny Latex mask“ @thebinarycurse und „NOSE GRILL“ @haiyti.
credits: Vera Gärtner
Hebe und Große Badende, Karlsruhe, fotografiert mit Instagram-Facefilter „Shiny Latex mask“ @thebinarycurse und „NOSE GRILL“ @haiyti.
credits: Vera Gärtner
Symbolischer Vorschlag für eine Intervention am Brunnen am Stephanplatz in Karlsruhe.
credits: Vera Gärtner
01. 04. 2022
Supervision: Prof. Constanze Fischbeck, AM Hanne König, Prof. Thomas Rustemeyer
Mixtape: Luise Peschko
Graphics: Mio Kojima, Paulina Mimberg und Bruno Jacoby
Curation: Lizzy Ellbrück und Josefine Scheu
Text: Lizzy Ellbrück, Josefine Scheu, Jandra Böttger und Leonie Mühlen
Scenography: Janina Capelle
Lights: Luise Peschko
Dramaturgy: Miki Feller
Project of Vera Gärtner
Thanks:
Aïsha Devi, Alexander Knoppik, Anne Imhof, Barbara Kuon, Billie Eilish, Bolis Pupul, Bruno Jacoby, Charlotte Adigéry, Charlotte Eifler, Constanze Fischbeck, Daniela Stöppel, Dope Saint Jude, Eartheater, Eliza Douglas, Fauna, Hanna Jurisch, Hanne König, Iden Sungyoung Kim, Jandra Böttger, Janina Capelle, Johanna Hedva, Jojo Abot, Josefine Scheu, Jutta Thimm, Kaleo Sansaa, Leia Walz, Leonie Mühlen, Lioudmila Voropai, Lisa Bergmann, Little Simz, Lizzy Ellbrück, Lorenz Schwarz, Luise Peschko, Manuel Sekou, Miki Feller, Mio Kojima, Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun, Nis Petersen, Nora Häuser, Paulina Mimberg, Peaches, Princess Nokia, Sascha Jungbauer, Sebastian Schäfer, Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe (Ariane Rahm und Katja Schmalholz), Stadt Karlsruhe Liegenschaftsamt, Susanne Kriemann, Thomas Rustemeyer, Ulrich Steinberg, Vanessa Bosch, yeule
ffountain is the outcome of a gender-historical investigation of street names and body representations in the form of art (monuments, fountains and outdoor sculptures) in public spaces in Karlsruhe and the question of who is visibly remembered and who is not.
The documentation of the current state of affairs in Karlsruhe, the analysis of the representation of gender relations and in particular the focus on the people who are not remembered, reveal the deeply rooted network of patriarchal, racist, ableist, classist and (neo-)colonialist structures within the city and society.
Using methods of rearranging, misappropriating and overwriting, existing answers are collaged and counter-proposals are made.
They manifest themselves in a zine as a compilation of the research, through postcards as souvenirs and activist tools, in a floor plan with song lyrics and finally in the eponymous materialised ffountain: a counter-design of the spouting, misogynistic fountain on Stephanplatz - a spatial staging of a mixtape as a celebratory, collective and empowering counter-moment.
These are attempts to open up counter-narratives - invitations to deconstruct and re-imagine. A homage to appreciative sampling, remixing, quoting, reinterpreting, palimpsesting, compiling. ffountain wants to give the non-normative body space to (re)create and (re)narrate memory.
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