“Handy Space Bags”
Kafka wrote: "Everyone carries a room about him." Everyone carries a room about him through other rooms. I hope to examine and detect ‘traverse rooms’ . In daily life, moving through the city, the utilities needed are enclosed in a bag, ready to log in. The small apparatus feels close because I can carry it in my pocket and the mailbox carries my name. So I feel like pretty much at home anywhere.
How do the spaces look like when communicating in a mobile situation as on the cellular phone? Strolling along- when the perception of the city is incidental - and determined by my own actions (“ ...oh, I just forgot my scarf in the restaurant!”) and the movement of the other person I can hear but not see. (“ ...now, I am on the way to the underground, it’s smelly and fucking crowded!”).
In Germany, a mobile phone is called a “handy”. I am wondering, where the “handy spaces” are carrying me.
“Handy Space Bags” are all the informations in "a handy": photos, music and sms that are carried around. I would like to scan the information of passengers and project them in unseen spaces. Bags contain memories, enclosing the imagined or future (dream) space and leaving room for the unexpected. The bags collect these spaces of relationships and surrounding territory and a journey that can be carried, with no borders can begin.
28.Feb 2000 Berlin
Valeska Peschke
“Handy Space Bags”
Kafka wrote: "Everyone carries a room about him." Everyone carries a room about him through other rooms. I hope to examine and detect ‘traverse rooms’ . In daily life, moving through the city, the utilities needed are enclosed in a bag, ready to log in. The small apparatus feels close because I can carry it in my pocket and the mailbox carries my name. So I feel like pretty much at home anywhere.
How do the spaces look like when communicating in a mobile situation as on the cellular phone? Strolling along- when the perception of the city is incidental - and determined by my own actions (“ ...oh, I just forgot my scarf in the restaurant!”) and the movement of the other person I can hear but not see. (“ ...now, I am on the way to the underground, it’s smelly and fucking crowded!”).
In Germany, a mobile phone is called a “handy”. I am wondering, where the “handy spaces” are carrying me.
“Handy Space Bags” are all the informations in "a handy": photos, music and sms that are carried around. I would like to scan the information of passengers and project them in unseen spaces. Bags contain memories, enclosing the imagined or future (dream) space and leaving room for the unexpected. The bags collect these spaces of relationships and surrounding territory and a journey that can be carried, with no borders can begin.
28.Feb 2000 Berlin
Valeska Peschke