»Keeping mum! Chinese Whispers in the office«.
von Margit Schild
Video 16 min, 2009, Hanover, Germany
An artistic transformation process at the
»Department of Environment and Green Areas«
Hanover, Germany in the context of »Mind The Park«.
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The art project involved the participation of thirty
employees of the Fachbereich Umwelt und Stadtgrün
[department for environment and green spaces in
the city] in a process of artistic transformation.
The drawing produced by the head of department
in answer to the question: “What is a garden?”
was the starting point for the employees of the planning
office who individually worked on said drawing before
passing it on to the next person. The inspiration for their
step of the process each participant in this game took was
based entirely on their predecessor’s work. The time limit
for the realisation of follow-up associations and assumptions
was three minutes. Every stage of the process was captured
on video in individual frames and eventually worked into
a film showing the transformation process in fast motion.
Participants: employees of the department for environment and green spaces in the city, Hanover
Simone Battram, Silke Beck, Hilke Bergerstock, Hans-Karl von Bodecker, Silke Boers, Gabriele Böker, Udo Büsing, Martina Dahms, Frank Frohmüller, Gerd Garnatz, Mathias Gerhardt, Michaele Hagemann, Katrin Hinrichs, Hans Martens, Stefan Knuffmann, Angelika Kreuzer, Norbert Kuczma, Antje Laufer, Rolf Lippert, Hans Martens, Bernd Michaelis, Stefanie Petrek, Annegret Pfeiffer, Jürgen Rakow, Ulrich Schmersow, Martina Schunke, Karin van Schwartzenberg, Henning Sundermeyer, Susanne Wildermann, Karina Wilhelms, Ursula Weißfuß and Josefine Hartmann.