Park Fiction @ Documenta11

Jeebesh Bagchi vom Raqs Meia Collective schrieb dazu: "Park Fiction's installation on a struggle to save a working class playground from builders in Hamburg This is again a collaborative installation by a group of people (architects, filmmakers, writers, lay people who joined togetjer to keep a park in public use). Here the material were simple stuff that we all in india are familiar with: - photographs, slides, and films (short and long) - material that emerged during a long struggle (pamphlets, drawings, tool kits, writings, correspondence etc) - books that are singnificant and often read and circulated. - maps of the spaces and the dimensions of the struggle - the letters to the bureacracy, petitions, etc. The arrangement: - nicely designed tables with provision for filing cabinet kind of file rollers and a covered edge that can house a small TV monitor. They had about seven such long benches. The visitor comes and sits and moves through the files, sees slides being projected inside the covered part of the table, small Tv monitors running films, goes through maps, reads the books. What was really amazing about this installation was it's ability to get a small kid excited about it's materials as much as any interested adult. Further, it opens out the space of interpretation around the struggle and brings alive the process and complexity of the struggle. Again here you can hang around, move between things and come back to it."