Concept for the installation in Berlin-Mitte. A defunct tramway underpass at Unter den Linden boulevard is to be filled with water to one-third of its height. Three slow-moving, three-meter-long paper boats drift in and out of the viewer’s field of vision. Audible in the space is Alvin Curran’s Maritime Rites intertwined with the voice of an opera singer, reverberating the siren song as ancient myth. The atmosphere evokes the importance of ships since antiquity as means for expanding human endeavours into hitherto unknown regions as well as the inherent coexistence of hope and failure they embody.
The project was collaboratively planned with Gabriele Heidecker.