Red Lines
Project
The idea of Red Lines lies in creating a network of support across the communities from a similar background (communist past) using the website as a platform for sharing and overcoming the borders and differences and building the new community of support.
Manifesto
Almost thirty years have passed since the fall of communism. That period provides an enormous amount of information about the transition experiences of nearly thirty countries. It also allows a much fuller analysis of moves from authoritarianism, central planning, and collectivism to democracy, market economics, and individualism than had been possible in the past.
The Red Lines project takes this socio-political transition process as a starting point, focusing on four countries: Germany, Cuba, Tajikistan, and Ukraine. We want to analyze these countries in terms of the symbolic transformation of the socialist past and its incorporation into the nowadays urban mosaic of digital media, globalization, and privatization.
We are interested in making visible the underlying conflicts between private and public spaces.
How has this abrupt transition from communal and supra-collectivized societies to decentralized and private living environments manifested itself?
What role does technology play in this process, and how does it reconfigure our notion of private and public?
What are the most remarkable similarities between the different processes of change experienced in the four countries beyond the historical and cultural differences?
Subsequently, we will develop several anthropological kinds of research using media such as photography, video, and sound. We will work from the peculiarities of the urban space that highlight the mutations of the communist past in the new patterns of the contemporary city. The final objective of these actions is the creation and publication of a web platform where all the work done will be socialized.
Our Team
Diana Berg
Ukraine
Pavel Méndez
Cuba
Felix Banholzer
Germany
Hamroh Aidarov
Tajikistan
Toolbox
Tools: Various methods to highlight the connection between post-tot communities across the world, including interventions, performances, a virtual map, and a visual archive.
Gathering the archive of visual connection between countries through the reinvention of borders between private and public, recreating a map of communities based on what really matters, conducting series of performances involving the psychogeography, hybrid (online-offline) exhibition, interventions, and others.
Walking the lines
Map of an Ideal Community
Fragments
Archive
Vision
In addition to the digital publication on the project website, Red Lines also wants to create an onsite event: an exhibition that will visualize the research results artistically. The team aims to realize a multimedia show or walk-in installation in 2022. In this regard, we are looking for funding and space in Berlin to produce the event.
