Performence
video installation
by and with
Dirk Cieslak
Jeroen de Boer
Kaveh Ghaemi
Johannes Maas
Pedram Py
Annett Hardegen
Schokofeh Kamiz
Tereschkowa Obaid
Valentina Primavera
Marcus Reinhardt
Solmaz Shahbazi
Mariel Jana Supka
Judith van der Werff
Monika Wiedemer
supported by:
Regierenden Bürgermeister – Senatskanzlei kulturelle Angelegenheiten und den Fonds darstellende Künste.
video installation
by and with
Dirk Cieslak
Jeroen de Boer
Kaveh Ghaemi
Johannes Maas
Pedram Py
Annett Hardegen
Schokofeh Kamiz
Tereschkowa Obaid
Valentina Primavera
Marcus Reinhardt
Solmaz Shahbazi
Mariel Jana Supka
Judith van der Werff
Monika Wiedemer
supported by:
Regierenden Bürgermeister – Senatskanzlei kulturelle Angelegenheiten und den Fonds darstellende Künste.
Block - Living Of Tenderness
In the centre of Kreuzberg, the Vierte Welt is located at the dead end of a shop-turned-gallery that never functioned as such. If you take a photo of the venue from the outside, it could be almost anywhere in the world: in the banlieues of Paris or Marseille, in Victoria Island or Ekbatan. In "The Block - Living of Tenderness," Vierte Welt makes a connection from block to block and builds a bridge between the (in)same stories of two far-apart neighbourhoods in Berlin and Tehran. What connects the two places? What do they have in common? In the 1970s, Tehran was to be transformed into a metropolis along the lines of an "entrepreneurial and democratic American city” - starting with Ekbatan, which was the first district to be built according to the new master plan for Tehran. Rumours that Tehran's central bazaar, the heart of Iran's economy, was to give way to a highway broke the camel's back in 1978. The Shah was hounded out of the country and his dream of modernisation came to an end. In Ekbatan, the residents took over their district in self-government.
West Berlin was also destined to become a car-friendly city. The Kreuzberg centre was created and half a district was to be demolished and rebuilt to make place for an urban highway. The battle for the city began. "The question from now on was: "Who owns the city?"" The plans for urban redevelopment could not be realised. The Kreuzberg centre was built - and survives as an artefact of the time.
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In the centre of Kreuzberg, the Vierte Welt is located at the dead end of a shop-turned-gallery that never functioned as such. If you take a photo of the venue from the outside, it could be almost anywhere in the world: in the banlieues of Paris or Marseille, in Victoria Island or Ekbatan. In "The Block - Living of Tenderness," Vierte Welt makes a connection from block to block and builds a bridge between the (in)same stories of two far-apart neighbourhoods in Berlin and Tehran. What connects the two places? What do they have in common? In the 1970s, Tehran was to be transformed into a metropolis along the lines of an "entrepreneurial and democratic American city” - starting with Ekbatan, which was the first district to be built according to the new master plan for Tehran. Rumours that Tehran's central bazaar, the heart of Iran's economy, was to give way to a highway broke the camel's back in 1978. The Shah was hounded out of the country and his dream of modernisation came to an end. In Ekbatan, the residents took over their district in self-government.
West Berlin was also destined to become a car-friendly city. The Kreuzberg centre was created and half a district was to be demolished and rebuilt to make place for an urban highway. The battle for the city began. "The question from now on was: "Who owns the city?"" The plans for urban redevelopment could not be realised. The Kreuzberg centre was built - and survives as an artefact of the time.
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