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MONO is a folder gathering 20 single small books. It's in fact the first Monograph about the work of «Haus am Gern» 1998 - 2010 with lots of pictures and texts.
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Lifetime europe
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a history-free spaceein geschichtsfreier Raum un espace non-historique
In summer 2005 Haus am Gern travelled to Leipzig on a two month residency following the invitation by the Leipzig Ar-tists Association (BBKL) to develop a project there. On 25 th Ju ly, Haus am Gern acquired allotment garden nr. 266 in plantation II belonging to the allotment garden association Anger-Crottendorf. The previous tenants had farmed this plot for thirty years (1975 – 2005). The plot’s 208 square me-ters, cultivated in three equal parts with fruit and vege-tables, flower beds and lawn, passed into the pos ses sion of Haus am Gern unchanged, including the stone ga zebo and the entire inventory (tools, furniture and deco ra tion). On completion of the purchase, Haus am Gern became a mem-ber and tenant of the allotment garden association Anger-Crottendorf.
Within the existing gazebo, Haus am Gern built a free stan-ding structure measuring 2.10 x 2.12 x 2.14 meters. The spa-ce was designed as a cleanroom according to EN ISO 14644 contamination control standard (technical consultant: Daniel Grimm, CH) and consists of an anteroom with storage for
protective clothing as well as the actual dust-free space. An air conditioning system controls the climate in the room and slight positive pressure prevents the infiltration of dust particles. Haus am Gern declared this room a “history free” space.The history free space was cleaned, certified, locked and sea led by the specialist company profi-con Contamination Control (Aschaffenburg/Leipzig) and cannot be acessed since.
Garden 266 and the history free space were looked after by Jasper and Christine Friedrich-Leye until 2007 and since then by the Holzers, a family of five from Leipzig, with the sup-port of neighboring tenant Hannes Fechtner. Allotment plot 266 with the history free space is open to the public for gui-ded visits on request ([email protected]).
—LIFETIME EUROPE is for sale. All responsibilities and duties devolve to the buyer.
1 Acleanroomisanenvironment,typicallyusedinmanufacturingorscientificresearch,thathasalowlevelofenvironmentalpollutantssuchasdust,airbornemicrobes,aerosolparticlesandchemicalvapors.Moreaccurately,acleanroomhasacontrolledlevelofcontaminationthatisspecifiedbythenumberofparticlespercubicmeterataspecifiedparticlesize.Togiveperspective,theambientairoutsideinatypicalurbanenvironmentcontains35,000,000particlespercubicmeter,0.5μmandlargerindiameter,correspondingtoanISO9cleanroom.
Theairenteringacleanroomfromoutsideisfilteredtoexcludedust,andtheairinsideisconstantlyrecirculatedthroughhighefficiencyparticulateair(HEPA)and/orultralowparticulateair(ULPA)filterstoremoveinternallygeneratedcontaminants.Staffenterandleavethroughairlocks(sometimesincludinganairshowerstage),andwearprotectiveclothingsuchashats,facemasks,gloves,bootsandcoveralls.Somecleanroomsarekeptatapositivepressuresothatifthereareanyleaks,airleaksoutofthechamberinsteadofunfilteredaircomingin.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom
Lifetime europe
a history-free space – ein geschichtsfreier Raum – un espace non-historique
SINCE 2005 INTERvENTION, IN PROGRESS
MIxED MEDIA
CLEANROOM
CLEANROOM AIR SHOWER
GAzEBO
Richharvestthankstopropercare:RenéMedickcutsbackthetrees.
VintageGDR:thegazebobeforetheerrectionofthehistoryfreespace.
GardenenthusiastHermannWaltercultivatedtheallotmentfor30years.
BeautyandVanity:–photographbyUlrikeHolzer
Oneof39’000:theallotmentwithinthesmallgardenassociationAngerCrottendorfIIinthe
eastofLeipzig.
…ofthefirmproficonContaminationControl(Aschaffenburg/Leipzig)purifiestheindustrial
cleanroom.
Artists’brunchontheallotment:lefttorightAnnetteSchröter,BarbaraMeyerCesta,ErasmusSchröter,JürgenStrege.
PresentationofLIFETIMEEUROPEinthegroupexhibition“Theworldisnotenough”atStädtischesKaufhaus,Leipzig.
Aworker…
HISTOIRES SANS ESPACE
Tu verras …
C’est déjà vu.
L’art existe dans l’œil qui le regarde …
À toi de voir.
Même le regard le plus hagard n’y peut
choir là, au néant de l’histoire.
Il n’y a d’yeux que tes yeux, qui sèmement
l’art et portent le génie des lieux …
au fin fond et même au delà des cieux.
Espace sans histoire, vous avez dit !!! ou
d’histoires sans espace ???
Tout est dans l’ère imaginaire … dans
l’esprit fécond et fertile.
À toi de voir.
L’être n’a rien à voir avec l’avoir, le
pédant et le stérile.
Bang … Bang … Qui a pété le big bang ???
L’art existe dans l’œil qui le regarde …
Ainsi murmurait la Petite Grande
étoile.
ALI BOUzAROURA, WRITER
Fromparadisetotheallotmentgarden:Adam,Eve,CainandAbelaftertheexpulsion
(JuliusSchnorrofCarolsfeld,DieBibelinBildern,GeorgWiegand'sVerlag,Leipzig,1860).
oN ArCHiViNG tHe VoiD
Where nothingness describes
the world.
Empty Room
Approach this room carefully. It is empty, completely emp ty. The closer you come, the larger the temptation is to enter it: the consequences are unpredictable. Contemplate this fact: the perfection of this room is its containment of nothing. A room without a past, without a fu tu re. Without any intentions, indifferent to its own bright ness, to every grid, every kind of geomancy, to sensible ad ditions unless they serve its hermetic hygiene. With out reaction to fatigue and energy, untouched by table legs, never crossed by clotheslines or even the flapping of a lost butterfly,s wings, without a memory of points of entry, exchange of bodily fluids, noiseless, unwounded and with out scorch marks. No confession, no treason, no sighs, no deep breaths, no prospect, neither rebirth nor resur rec tion. An abject room. Perhaps you had better walk away again. Your stay is creating a precarious situation: for you and the room. See, you,re already imagining that so me thing is touching the dustfree interior walls; you,re startled even though you haven,t heard anything … It is, as if a story were trying to begin. A hopeless entangle ment, and you know it. Not in this room.
Franz Dodel, Writer, Bern
CREDITSHostBundBildenderKünstlerLeipzigBBKL(AssociationofVisualArtistsLeipzig)Location«Theworldisnotenough»,StädtischesKaufhaus
LeipzigCurators ChristineD.Hölzig,GabrielHäussler InterventionAllotmentGardenAssociationAngerCrottendorfAnlage II,Leipzig
StudioKunstkaufhausLeipzig;GerdaViecenzAccommodationJürgenStregePhotographySimonRübesamen&NadinMariaRüfenacht
Garden 266 HermannWalter&FamilieTechnical support DanielGrimmDrywall construtionRenéMedickCleanroom servicingDu
vernellproficonContaminationControlLeipzigGardening HannesFechtner;JasperandChristineFriedrichLeye;MaxandRenateHolzerand
ChildrenSupported byAgenturfürArbeitLeipzig/BürofürInternationaleBeziehungenLeipzig;PräsenzBern,OfficeforCulturalAffairs
Leipzig;KulturraumLeipzigerRaum/KR–05;KulturstiftungSachsen,KulturStadtBern;REALImmobilienGmbHLeipzig;BeatHugi;Yvonne&
RobertHäussler;ProHelvetia;KantonBern
If we are saying that nothing exists either inside or outside, then the question
arises: inside and outside of what? Something evidently, all the same, does
exist? Or perhaps doesn't exist. In which case, why do we keep saying 'inside'
and 'outside'? No, here we have patently reached an impasse. And we our sel
ves don't know what to say. Goodbye for now.
Daniil Kharms, “On Phenomena and Existences Nr. 2” [1934], in Incidences, trans. Neil Cornwell, London: Serpent’s Tail, 2006, p. 96
Bydefinitionacleanroomisaroomwithcontrolledconditions.One lookat thedailypapersproves that theworldcannotbeacleanroom.
Incleanroomtechnologywetalkabout“contaminationcontrol.”Bythiswemeancontaminationinthesenseofimpurification–theairisprobablyonlyreallypureandclearonMt.Everest,andonlywhennohumansarepresent.
Wewillthusneverexperiencehowcleanandclearanuncontaminatedroomis,foritishumanswhocontaminateitwiththeirpresence,theirthoughtsandtheirenergy.
Designinga“historyfreespace”isaboldproject.Humanbeingsonlyexistintheirpresentemergingfromtheirpast,withalookintothehopefulfuture.Aroomwithouthistorywouldalsobearoomwithoutthephysicalpresenceofhumanity–probablynirvanaorparadise,dependingwhichversionofhistoryyouprefer.
Thetechnicalapplicationofcleanroomsextendsfromsemiconductortechnologytothefoodindustryandmedicine.Withoutcleanrooms,microchipswouldbeunthinkable.Withoutmicrochips,archivingdatawouldbemuchhardertorealise.Archivingdatameansthemanifestationoftheexistenceofhistory–whichmakesitevenboldertorepresenta“historyfreespace”inacleanroom.Byenteringthehistoryfreespace,wearecutofffromtheenvironment.Whathappensthere–evenifwecan
see it – remainsuninfluencedbyusat thatmoment.Ourhistorycontinues,thehistory“outsideonthestreet”continueswithoutus.
Theplayfulthoughtthatthecleanroomprotectstheenvironment, but also protects the people within fromenvironmentalinfluences,mayleadusinmanydirections.
Atthemomentwhenanindividualrecognisesthatthehistoryoftheworldwillcontinuetobewrittenwithouthisassistance,hebecomesawareofhisowninadequacy.Ifhemakeshisandtheworld’shistoryintoanintegralcomponentofthepresent,agreatdealofthemistakesexperiencedinthepastwouldnolongerberelevantforthefuture.
Manyindividualsmakeacrowd.Perhapseveneveryone?Microchipsareproducedfaultlesslyinacleanroom.Ina“historyfreespace”,afuturemightbebuiltthatattheveryleastdoesnotrepeatthemistakesofthepast.Inthisrespect,humanswouldonlyhavetolearnfromtheirhistory–andcreateacleanspaceintheirheadsandhearts,freeofthechainsofprejudice.Whataboldproject.
Daniel Grimm,
Secretary of the Swiss Society for
Cleanroom Technology.
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Gardenenthusiastandfriendlyspirit:HannesFechtnerofgarden267
Artists’brunchattheallotment:Heiner,ChristineandJasperFriederichLeye
Planting,weeding,cutting,digging:lefttorightMax,Ulrike,Oskar,RenateandArneHolzertendtogarden266.
MatthiasWyss,GazeboLeipzig,pencilonpaper,2006 TiloSteireif,LifetimeEurope,felttippenonpaper,2007
BertramKober,LifetimeEurope,photograph,2007
ArtiStS iNterpretLifetime europe
oNe yeAr oN ALLotmeNt 266
Growth, bloom, harvest and decay