Create Your Surrounding!

2017 · Multi-channel video installation

Create Your Surrounding! is a multi-channel video installation by Nickii Schamborski, 2017.

Video still: the words 'organic anarchy' in 3D letters over an overgrown green plot with a white apartment block behind. Create Your Surrounding! (2017) by Nickii Schamborski. — Image 1 of 4

Four-part video still: a pink panel reading 'Accept responsibility and select:', an aerial view labelled 'Business Camp', a new apartment block labelled 'Wohnraumversorgungskonzept, state-financed investment', and greenery labelled 'Organic Anarchy'. Create Your Surrounding! (2017) by Nickii Schamborski. — Image 2 of 4

Installation view in a dark room: the silhouette of a visitor in front of four monitors arranged as a video wall. Create Your Surrounding! (2017) by Nickii Schamborski. — Image 3 of 4

Installation view: four wall-mounted monitors together show an empty urban plot with large pink letters, in a dark room with plants. Create Your Surrounding! (2017) by Nickii Schamborski. — Image 4 of 4

About the work

Over a two-year period, I documented and observed this construction site, developing a work that explores determination and external control in urban space. Through flashy aesthetics, aggressive soundscapes, and digital collaging of advertisement imagery, the multi-channel video installation addresses transformation in public space. Possibilities of influence and powerlessness are questioned based on the observation of a reconstruction area.

Zur Arbeit

Über einen Zeitraum von zwei Jahren habe ich dieses Baustellengebiet besucht und dokumentiert, woraus sich eine Arbeit entwickelte, die sich mit der Determinierung und Fremdbestimmung im Stadtraum auseinandersetzt. Durch plakative Ästhetik, aggressive Klanglandschaften und digitale Collagen von Werbeinhalten adressiert die mehrkanalige Videoinstallation die eigene Ohnmacht angesichts Veränderungen des öffentlichen Raum. Die Einflussmöglichkeiten jedes*r Einzelnen werden anhand der Beobachtung eines Umbaugebietes hinterfragt.

Details

Year: 2017
Type: Multi-channel video installation
Specs: Single-channel video (4K, stereo sound, 12:27 min, English titles). Displayed on four LCD-Monitor