6.4. 2010

I’m interested in the city as a network of dynamic communities shaping their inhabitants’ visual, audio, non-material and physical environments.
The city is the result of human communality. Nonetheless, the individual’s opportunities to influence his or her own urban environment are limited. Bureaucracy keeps in motion concentric circles of decision-making and it is hard to know where to jump in.
The superficially unsurprising nature of the urban environment creates the feeling of an eternally secure everyday existence, while making its inhabitants fear other change and divergence.  Since temporary advertising campaigns are almost the only changing factor in the urban landscape, the inhabitants are made to remain consumers and unpredictable development is prevented.
Through my work as an artist I seek to empower people to experience their own opportunities and responsibility in creating and shaping their environments.