Der Trampelpfad als Volksskulptur
2005 Intervention in Public Space
The path crossing through the housing project marks a resistance of the individual against rational architecture. The human being leaves the prescribed path to trace his own. A collective path results from the compacted footprints.
In a northern Weimar housing project, we declared such a path and the power relationships that led to its emergence as an artwork.
The residents of nothern Weimar became aware that they had created their own Volksskulptur (folk sculpture) and the mayor inaugurated it in an official ceremony with a memorial plaque.
Our approach aims at a re-appropriation of the trail from a situation of a lack of respect to an identification symbol. In that we declare a 110-meter long path a Volksskulptur (folk sculpture) and recognize it as such, this trampled-down earth becomes a kind of negative monument to everyone who makes the space in which they live their own.