aeolus
Images of Berlin's pink groundwater management system,
which runs through, across and over many urban sites and offers delightful
sexual undertones. Presented as four video projections and one 16mm loop.
The city's gods, according to some people, live in the depths, in the
black lake that feeds the underground streams. According to others, the
gods live in the buckets that rise, suspended from a cable, as they appear
over the edge of the wells (…).
(Thin Cities 1, in Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities,
Vintage 1997, p20)
(…) It is pointless trying to decide whether (the city) is to be classified
among the happy cities or among the unhappy. It makes no sense to divide
cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that
through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires,
and those in which desires either erase the city
or are erased by it.
(Thin Cities 2, in Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities,
Vintage 1997, p35)
Website for the aeolus exhibition