Project: Urban Jungle – A meadow in town
Artist: Peter Aerschmann
Location: IM VIADUKT
Project
With the intention to preserve fragments of nature in the virtual space, plants and other finds have been dug out of the ground on a square metre lawn. In the studio, they were separated from their natural environment, individually filmed and digitised in three dimensions. In the video, they combine to create a moving still life where the elements rotate around a centre in endless loops. During «Urban Jungle», the artist creates wondrous projections of grasses, dandelions and hazelnuts dancing on the façades at night.
Artist
Peter Aerschmann is a pioneer of interactive art. He dismembered computer-generated visual worlds into fragments that are recomposed again. Thus, the images move horizontally and vertically, overlapping and covering up others. In essence, the work is based on everyday processes. Birds waddle through the scenery, blinds open and close, people move into the city. The commonplace is dissected and set in a new scenery.
Location
The PWG Foundation acquires and provides affordable residential and commercial premises in the city of Zurich. In the listed rail viaduct it leases 46 shops, studios and catering outlets, including the first market hall of the city of Zurich. In 1894, viaducts replaced railway embankments in the industrial district of Zurich. By then, business was already moving into the viaduct. Up to 200 stonemasons pursued their craft there. In the 1990s, innovative tenants settled in and brought the district to life. As part of the refurbishment, the PWG Foundation took over the expansion of the viaduct arches in 2004. The aim was to fill the viaduct with district compatible and regionally rooted usages, so that IM VIADUKT became a meeting place for the neighbourhood and beyond.
