Schwarmwesen’s Forking Horizon

Johannes Paul Raether, Schwarmwesens Forking Horizon, 2015, © Stadtkuratorin Hamburg. Foto / Photo: Frank Egel
Johannes Paul Raether, Schwarmwesens Forking Horizon, 2015, © Stadtkuratorin Hamburg. Foto / Photo: Frank Egel
Johannes Paul Raether, Schwarmwesens Forking Horizon, 2015, © Stadtkuratorin Hamburg. Foto / Photo: Frank Egel
Johannes Paul Raether, Schwarmwesens Forking Horizon, 2015, © Stadtkuratorin Hamburg. Foto / Photo: Frank Egel

In his performances Johannes Paul Raether creates alien beings (identicatures) that are composed of multiple identities and that constantly study themselves. In the HafenCity, a sculpture will be sunk into a building pit filled with water. A swarm creature will study the movement of bodies and commodities in, from, and into Hamburg as well as the role of cruise ships and the container port in the imagination of a global trading city. In the spirit of an “expanded site-specificity”, this artistic fiction is directed at the site of the performance as a pluriverse.

Schwarmwesen’s Forking Horizon

2015
by Johannes Paul Raether
(born 1977, lives in Berlin and Hamburg)

June – July 2015
Intvervention,
Vacant lot at the Überseequartier subway station, 20457 Hamburg
Sunday, May 31, 2015, 5 pm
Sunday, July 12, 2015, 5 pm
Performance, ca. 45 min.
Vacant lot at the Überseequartier subway station, 20457 Hamburg
Limited attendance to the performance. Registration welcome until July 8, 2015 via E-Mail: kontakt@stadtkuratorin-hamburg.de or phone: +49 40 36163045

Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk.
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg

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