SCHENGEN – Border observation point / one day installation
WARSAW 15th JUNE 2008 From 12:00 A.M. to 20:00 P.M.
Stadiums and borders are meant to build the national identity. Whereas the stadiums are the real architectural objects constructed within few years; borders are the products of our imagination. They are in fact consisting of contracts, performativ acts, symbols and potential violence. Borders and stadiums are supposed to tell us, who we are. Berlin-Bern group Schauplatz International will recreate in the middle of the lawn a fragment of the polish eastern border in 1:1 scale. An observation point will be constructed on the crown of the Stadium. Look at it in all its beauty and misery. In this space of multi-meaning and contradiction, past and future SCHAUPLATZ INTERNATIONAL wants to cool down.
Until recently FRONTEX was located near the 10th-Anniversary Stadium. FRONTEX, the EU agency based in Warsaw, was created as a specialized body responsible for the border security. In cooperation with the police, the army and the secret service Frontex is organising the quick intervention groups, people hunting and charter deportation. In consequence the emigrants are using the more and more dangerous ways to pass the borders. Frontex employees, on their way to work were passing every day the Stadium and the market – the place that – as the contry borders – were dividing people in legal and unlegal ones.
The artists were inspired by the phenomenon of the Stadium - built from the ruins of Warsaw as a monument of the communist regime, then the seat of the pioneers of the capitalism, the only place diverse culturally where the emigrants gathered, the meta-ruin. Very soon the new National Stadium for Euro 2012 will be built on this location. The amazing contrast between the derelict monument with the new, bottom-up energy of the traders and the emigrants, the architecture of the future, questioned procedures of Frontex and all other unknown features – will create the climax of the control observation point. Just sit and watch
One day instalation by Schauplatz International will ask you to sit down and watch.
cast: Albert Liebl, Martin Bieri, Lars Studer and guests
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