V01  

PUBLIC-SPACE INTERACTION
2017 Glasvitrine, U9 Birkenstraße, Berlin

Material: textiles, wearable sculptures, found objects, glass wool, ropes, drawings

© Susi Hinz. Photo: Petra Valdimarsdottir

V01 relocated the artistic working process for seven days into the public space of the Berlin underground. Within a glass studio, Hinz worked visibly in the everyday circulation space of the U9 Birkenstraße station. Central to the project was the wearable sculpture Brilliant Housemates, which resists conventional norms of the body and beauty and frames the body as a site of social attribution. Through the deliberate exposure of labour, corporeality, and process, the work generated a situation of disruption that prompted conversation and activated public space as a site for negotiating identity, value, and artistic practice.