Compilations and Databases combined different appoaches, a collective jukebox by Jerome Joy, a filmprogramme curated by Florian Wuest and a printed sticker project by Marion Boesen.
Compilation and Databases: Cultural memory is atcually produced by events: by projects and there dissemination, by archives, by publications, etc. It is not until they undergo representation that they can be said to have a final, static state. Justice is to be done in this project to the fundamental event boundness of cultural memory. Compilations and archives are based on networks, connections, rope teams, What is more, to a certain extent they are subject to chance. In their manifestations they make a finished and consolidated impression, the choices and combinations appearing definitive. In various ways, these projects undertake to reveal a new openness of events: The compilations trace back to different initiators, the archives remain incomplete, the actions event-like, the network open.
The video program the “Progresses -the City and work” compiled by Florian Wüst for Bremen comprises a substantive as well as visual reflection on the social transformations of urban spaces and the rationalization of industrial production, The nervous pulse of twentieth century technological and infrastructural progress is contrasted with glimpses into occupational realities and visionary potentials for action: Energy Engery by Karel Doing NL, Alter Egaux by Sandrine Dryvers (B), Blight by John Smith, UK, Plutonium Blonde by Sandra Lahire, (GB), Shanghai, by Lou Ye, NL;