Fraktalwerk-Land art follows traces that connect past and future in a condensed present time. Thep articipants are interested in erosion, weathering, ageing, washes, decay, forgetting, displacement, overgrowth, paste over, rusting, dusting, degradation, erusion, wear, patination, use and consumption, ana- and metamorphosis, dissolution, transformation, misappropriation, withdrawal, fragmentation, breakage, fading, abrasion, usurpation, material fatigue, shrinkage, decay and disintegration.
We are interested in what is discarded and rejected, what is left behind, dropped, left lying and standing, forgotten, worn and used up, displaced, lost, discarded and segregated, marginalised, excluded, discarded and devalued, in the unused and the leftover, the misappropriated and the disfigured, the hidden and the concealed, the emptied and the silting up, the submerged and the buried, the damned and the fallen, the deserted and the abandoned.
From 2011 to 2022, we explored this lost place, which was still open to the public at the time, and rediscovered it as a space for art. Performances, works with the Rote Spur (red trace), readings and, of course, works with brick tiles took place there during this period …
A bright birch grove and a disused railway site somewhere in Chemnitz, a story, a dance – a new project in the long-term project “Lost Places” …
Marlen Wagner has been working with labyrinths since 2005. In her land art installations in Berlin and on the Baltic Sea, she uses a wide variety of materials.
With “Hallo”, a performance by Marlen Wagner (German language only), Fraktalwerk Projektraum presents a new long-term project: Lost Places.
Marlen Wagner has been working with her red ribbons since 2011: In performances she ties herself in – and tries to escape the entanglements and tensions …
Exposed situation posts transmit messages about the situation, like a message in a bottle thrown into the more of possibilities. Location posts are bottle posts, letters, objects, containers, boxes, cases, envelopes or bodies.
Landart: Marlen Wagner has been working with her red ribbons since 2011: In installations she entangles trees and driftwood and deadwood – in performances she ties herself in.
What other tensions will she find in the future?
Land art says that things will find themselves. Objects and materials come across: they are collected for the moment and later returned to the places where they were found.
Robert Krokowski jokingly refers to his installations with brick fragments and erosion forms made of fired red clay as Lateritour. “Lateritour” is itself a portmanteau word and at the same time a paragram and an anagram.