Collective stroll along Heerstraße. A narrative that unfolds with each step. Using collective navigation both as a research tool and as a performative element.
As part of the exhibition stories make worlds, worlds make stories in the poster frames in the outdoor area of the GAK, Bubu Mosiashvili invites to a collective walk along one of Bremen’s 28 Heerstraßen: the Waller Heerstraße. Together we want to explore the stories and sentiments that are visibly and invisibly inscribed in these streets.
Taking the military history of these roads as a starting point, the collective walk becomes an observation and examination of our movements in these places. Engaging in walking and urban wandering constitutes a profoundly relational experience, entailing an ongoing conversation between the self and both tangible and virtual entities—whether human or non-human. The street speaks to us, becomes a living archive of encounters, recollections, and the rhythmic movements of others. But what happens when those others are troops? And their walking is marching? Once we are aware that we are marching, how to tell apart military marching from the festive one and the festive one from the protesting one?
During our walk along Waller Heerstraße, we will think together about possible scenarios for these streets and their names in order to manipulate their naming and to create a future archive of these places based on our reflections.
Bubu Mosiashvili (b. 1997, in Tbilisi, Georgia), is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work explores blind spots of histories. Mosiashvili gained a bachelor’s degree in arts from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2019 and now pursues his diploma in fine arts at the University of Arts Bremen, in the class of Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
An event within the framework of the exhibition Bubu Mosiashvili: stories make worlds, worlds make stories
The event will be held in English. Meeting point tba.
The number of participants is limited.
Registration via office[at]gak-bremen.de