POST(ING) OFFICE
Participating artists who transformed Vivo:
Shila Khatami, Jonas von Ostrowski, Andreas Pfeiffer, Mitra Wakali & Fabian Hesse, Lily Wittenburg
“Post Political Post(ing) Office” is a hybrid place, a blend between an office, an open kitchen and a späti, situated inside the Vivo Center in Hamburg — itself a mix of indoor marketplace, utopian mall, parking lot, municipality offices and sports bar.
In this context, “Post Political Post(ing) Office” expands on the existing infrastructure columns in Vivo and multiplies its diverse outlets: making electricity, water and sewage visible, accessible and usable. Starting from there, an assemblage of tables, basic office infrastructure, cooking plates, found texts and images (and a broken printer) create an unexpected yet familiar environment and invite visitors to interact and engage, to take part in the never ending process of turning a space into a place.
From zine-making to soup-making, the post(ing) office became a place where questions about the Vivo Center — its past, its future— were materialized and discussed. Sitting together, drinking coffee, we reassembled fragments from and about Vivo, creating a multi-layered story on which elements were added until the end of the exhibition. For some, the installation became a place of appropriation and action, for others it remained a somewhat puzzling constellation of objects in space, but for many it was a trigger for reflection.
Where are we, and what do we make of it?
In this context, “Post Political Post(ing) Office” expands on the existing infrastructure columns in Vivo and multiplies its diverse outlets: making electricity, water and sewage visible, accessible and usable. Starting from there, an assemblage of tables, basic office infrastructure, cooking plates, found texts and images (and a broken printer) create an unexpected yet familiar environment and invite visitors to interact and engage, to take part in the never ending process of turning a space into a place.
From zine-making to soup-making, the post(ing) office became a place where questions about the Vivo Center — its past, its future— were materialized and discussed. Sitting together, drinking coffee, we reassembled fragments from and about Vivo, creating a multi-layered story on which elements were added until the end of the exhibition. For some, the installation became a place of appropriation and action, for others it remained a somewhat puzzling constellation of objects in space, but for many it was a trigger for reflection.
Where are we, and what do we make of it?