A brief history of the past – an overview
rebuilt in a sandbox
Stadt Land Fluss – view from south to north
Stadt Land Fluss – Italy, the Alpes and Russia
Stadt Land Fluss – indien ocean
Stadt Land Fluss – from America over Russia to China
Stadt Land Fluss – from southwest to northeast
Stadt Land Fluss – from London to Detroit
Stadt Land Fluss – America – electricity and automobiles
Stadt Land Fluss – California – near the mexican border
Stadt Land Fluss – and the time goes on
Stadt Land Fluss – overview
Stadt Land Fluss, installation by Martina Büttner
Martina Büttner’s outdoor installation „Stadt Land Fluss“ was inspired by the first part of a book written by french author Jacques Attali „A brief history of the future“. In this text, Jacques Attali retraces human history from the middle ages until today. He describes in which way the center of the world, in successive eras, has been determined by economically important inventions and how it has moved from one place to another: Venice by the invention of the caravel, Antwerp with printing, Genoa with accounting until these days with Los Angeles and the invention of the microchip. The idea of the installation „Stadt Land Fluss“ was to rebuild or trace this history with toys in a sandbox, expressing the transiency as well as fragility of the human and its history.
Location
Arts Center of Antony (France)
Date
April – june 2010
