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» Guten Morgen Buchholz
Incredible how fast time runs – already our last day in Amsterdam and we just got used to the city. Before heading out onto the speedway we spent the last morning shooting a few clips of Frida driving along grachten and through downtown and we visited and interviewed a fascinating researcher in the field of social networking, internet and networking in general: Geert Lovink, founding director of the ‘Institute of Network Cultures‘ hosted by the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. The ride back to Germany went fairly quickly until around 40 kilometers before Osnabrück, Frida got a heavy hickup and we had to … Continue reading
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» Fietsen
We slowly start to adapt to the fiets-chaos, crowded winkels and straats of Amsterdam and already met quite a lot of interesting people around Noordermarkt, among them many who do arts in different ways. We also met Sherwin from Iran – who is stuck in the Netherlands, because he can’t return to his home country. Our installation yesterday afternoon was appreciated by the bypassing pedestrians, who were not many, but the ones who played with it enjoyed it a lot. Video-artist and disk-jockey Alex even recognised an old friend from Berlin whose face was in the installation – what a … Continue reading
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» 1500 meters down North
It was foggy, cold, and humid when we left St. Valentin in search for a small Austrian town where we could set up our video-installation next. On the way through the Alps we decided to not set up anywhere because of the bad weather and instead head further North – as far as possible. Highest point of our route was the Reschenpaß where we refueled Frida and rolled down towards Germany through impressive mountains and valleys. When we passed the border and hit the Autobahn, the cloudy sky cracked open and sun and blue sky was above our heads. Anna … Continue reading
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» The Mountain’s Calling
Our last day in San Miniato was a bit stressful, because more interviews were needed and also more city-impressions – and there was supposed to be bad weather in the early evening. While Dominic guarded Frida and did some preparations for our upcoming trip to Amsterdam, Tine, Anna, Johannes, and Irene did some interviews in the city and Flux recorded some surround-sound-’atmos’. We got incredibly delicious free pizza with cheese, rucola and fresh tomatos at the nice caffe near the Piazza del Popolo where we had stopped by almost everyday for our emergency snack- and caffeine dosage and shot a … Continue reading
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» Ciao Irene
During our week in San Miniato we had Irene with us, a volunteer interpreter and translator who helped us out a lot approaching people on the streets for interviews, sorting out issues with local authorities and for general language questions. On our way up North towards the Alps – before we dropped her off in her hometown Merano later, I managed to record a short interview. Flux: First of all, please introduce yourself. Irene: I am Irene. I come from South Tyrol. Somehow I slid into this project to try out to be an interpreter for the Italian language. Flux: … Continue reading
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» Back to the roots
We’re a bit sad to leave San Miniato again – not only because we know that the weather will be worse up North where we’re headed – but also because we enjoyed the Tuscany life, food, and people so much. It was very interesting to experience life and people in the community of San Miniato. We tried to find out about the ‘slow food’ movement in, which presents itself as a movement back to the roots of healthy and consious dining culture – a counter-movement against globalisation – and in a way it represented the opposite of the idea of … Continue reading
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» viva la felicita slow
Relaxed and recharged from our day-off on the Adriatic Sea in Grado between Trieste and Venice we headed west to Bologna where we picked up our volunteer Italian translator and interpreter Irene from the railway station. Our next destination was San Miniato, a beautiful little town between Firenze and Pisa, known for great Chianti and the community being a new official member of the nation-wide ‘slow food‘ movement. Being a ‘citta slow’ means that local gastronomy, food, and delicacies producing businesses devoted themselves to purchasing and selling only goods from the area and educating people in becoming more conscious about … Continue reading
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» All roads lead to Rome
Now is the time where we really need to talk about our digital navigation-system. Before the trip we did some research on different GPS navigators and eventually bought the one that ranked best in Germany’s leading consumer product tests ‘Stiftung Warentest’ (rated ‘good’) – the ‘Falk Navigator’ F3… Not only is ‘user-friendliness’ completely absent on this device, starting from the confusing icons that are quite opposite of ‘intuitive’, also the actual ‘navigation’ from A to B doesn’t work most of the time. Constant reminders to ‘please turn around’ where we are on the right way or asking us in its … Continue reading
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» zagrebacke price
After a quite bumpy ride on roads across the north-east Croatian countryside we hit the speedway somewhere near the Bosnian border and rode Frida westwards to the capital, Zagreb. We arrived at Medika in the early evening, a squat industrial area in the city center with artist ateliers, cafeteria and concert rooms for alternative culture events. We were allowed to park and sleep there for one night in return of presenting our video installation. After a walk through the old city center with our local host Maja, across the marketplace and into the cathedral, we had dinner and returned to … Continue reading
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» Mila from Vukovar
After a great week in the beautiful town of Vukovar we’re back on the road – to Zagreb – our heads filled up with images, sounds and emotions from the last days. The initial reason why we chose Vukovar as one of our destination was the fact that it is symbolic for the most recent dark chapter of Europe’s history. Less than two decades have passed and we wanted to explore how people nowadays cope with the traumatising legacy of their hometown that was totally destroyed to the grounds. We wanted to see how the multi-ethnic community of Vukovar rebuilt … Continue reading
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» Ljepota iz pepela*
*beauty from ashes In the last two days Vukovar has caught us completely. It’s an incredibly diverse city engulfed by disturbing and dramatic history on almost every street-corner. Coming from Berlin, we are used to living in a place shaken by wars and ripped apart by political ideologies throughout the last century – but it always seems far away and surreal – unlike here, where the streets are still covered with provisorically tarred craters of grenade explosions, buildings bestrewn with hundreds of holes from bullet and shrapnel impacts and some completely destroyed houses, desolated and reclaimed by nature. Some people … Continue reading
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» Frida on the road
some video impressions about travelling with our 1977 Mercedes caravan… » more photos of Frida in the slideshow
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» jazz, papież, stali i dada*
*jazz, pope, steel, and dada Morning time: sitting in front of Fabryka, enjoying the rare sunlight, our Filmcrew interviewed Jacek about his Kraków’s life, his passion for old cars and the various mad scientist machines he invented. Then, off we went, with Frida, to Nowa Huta to capture the gigantic steel city of Huta. Unfortunately the gates are closed to the public, but nonetheless we were able to make some nice shots there. Meanwhile Flux was in downtown Kraków to meet Elwira and Popesz again – on the roof of their beautiful appartment with nice view across the city. He … Continue reading
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» Follow Us
Frida’s position is tracked via GPS and the position data will always be updated to our Map when we find cloud access. Our points of interest and the locations where our Installation is being presented are marked on the map too! Follow us virtually on our trip!
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» Telepathy vs. Internet
Our mission today was setting up the installation for the first time. For this purpose we chose the district of Nowa Huta, a famous neighborhood from the socialist era. We drove around large squares and through wide alleys framed by communist house blocks and eventually stopped at the Ronalda Reagana square (!) to capture some panorama shots of the wide street circle – from Frida’s rooftop. At some point two cops came over and ordered us to leave the spot because we were blocking a pedestrian crossing. We took off and parked the caravan on the other side of the … Continue reading
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» Passing the border
After a short but deep sleep we enjoyed breakfast on the camping site in Thräna and soon hit the autobahn to Poland. It was a long ride. The first 250km were quite sunny and Frida rolled under azure summer skies but the closer we came towards Krakow the more grey it got and the second half of the seven hours trip we fought our way through pouring rain. We arrived around 20:30 at Fabryka Krakow, a bar and club in an industrial complex. We met Elwira and Popesz, two VJ friends (aka. EleKTro mOOn), who organised the parking space for us … Continue reading
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» Heavy Metal
we met at 10:00 in the backyard of credo:film to load all the technical equipment into our caravan “Frida” to hug and say good-bye to the credo colleagues. then, it took a quite long time to cruise around Berlin – from Mitte to Tiergarten to Neukölln and Kreuzberg to pick up our private belongings and find space in the van to store everything. around 16:00 we finally hit the city outskirts and the autobahn bound east. our first stop was Herzfelde in Brandenburg, where we met Dirk, a very talented, friendly and funny metal and tin engineer specialised in chassis … Continue reading
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» Farewell & Startschuss
“Farewell & Startschuss” We are celebrating the kickoff of our Tour d’europe with you tonight! 7 pm @ betahaus Berlin! Come and join us – and get mishmashed up!
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