Weimar West (un)erhört ! was a project that focused on the neighbourhood Weimar-West in the world famous German town Weimar.

Away from Goethe, Schiller and the Bauhaus Masters I worked with a group of young people from a school in Weimar-West with the support from an urban planning office, the school's principal and a ESF grant.

We investigated the "Ghetto-like" Image and the history of Weimar-Westby listening to its soundscape and the inhabitants ofWeimar-West and Weimar... in all sincerety but with also a lot of humour.

In the process we learned a lot about ourselves, our future, our past, the power of media, social interaction and what listening actually can be..and created a feature like Audiobook portraying the neighbourhood and ourselves. Detailed information (sorry, only in German) can be found on the blog that followed the whole project here

How do young people today relate to the events of the "Mauerfall" and "Wende" ? For more than three years the Art and Media LAB at the FEZ collabourated with artists to work with five Schools in Berlin in many workshops. The work ensured the lasting realisation of artistic display formats of contemporary historical subjects in continuing Workshops and Projects with the young people. On the whole 600 students were part of "JUGEND BOHRT".

JUGEND BOHRT is an examination of a social change by young people, who was only mediated to them and which they know had been tracing themselves.  The Exhibition showed Movies, Installations and Photography. Its presentation testified a unique authenticity and diversity in the expression of young people, that is meant to stimulate a discourse.

I was lucky to be part of this project to work with a group of nine young people from the Emmy-Noether School.. In this narrative work I encouraged the young people to listen to their grandparents or parents by finding an object/objects that relates to this historical event in their household and tell its story..

JUGEND BOHRT was exhibited in the "Roten Rathaus", Berlin from 4.11.-9.11.2009 and due to the 20th anniversary of the Mauerfall Michael Gorbatchev saw it as well... 

REVIEW FROM THE ART IN LIVERPOOL BLOG, JAN 2006:

Pool of Sound Stereo Mix:

A unique "soundscape" of Liverpool, a city in transition, has been recorded and edited by a group of young people, capturing the soul of our city in sound. They have worked in equal collaboration with a sonic artist, an acoustic ecologist and a performance poet to record and document the sounds that most of us allow to wash over us almost unnoticed.

The project has introduced young people to the concept of listening more closely to the everyday sounds that we generally take for granted whilst teaching them the skills and processes of editing and recording.
The participants wandered the inner-city streets of Liverpool, capturing the city’s sounds and conversations using a range of equipment from boom microphones to dictaphones. They collected and created sounds have inspired visual soundscapes, word games and poetry which are all part of the ingredients to compliment the unique sound experience.