The video Ritual for a relict shows the ruins of a stranded cargo ship made of concrete. A tiny outboard motor attached to the rear, stirs up the knee-deep waters of the Baltic sea and makes it seem like a ship‘s wake. The punctum of this image is a man running through the water, as if he would run alongside the grounded freighter. The video is based on a site specific intervention, dedicated to the relationship between the ruin and its obsolete function as a former ship.
The stranded freighter is located in the Bay of Wismar in the north east of Germany and there it is exposed to decay for about 60 years. It was completely built out of ferrocement in 1944 during the era of National Socialism but never completed. During the era of the German Democratic Republic the concrete hull was used as a storage for canned fish and for ship components. In 1962 it was intentionally set aground in the Bay of Wismar to serve as a breakwater. All subsequent attempts to salvage the ship failed.
The video Ritual for a relict shows the ruins of a stranded cargo ship made of concrete. A tiny outboard motor attached to the rear, stirs up the knee-deep waters of the Baltic sea and makes it seem like a ship‘s wake. The punctum of this image is a man running through the water, as if he would run alongside the grounded freighter. The video is based on a site specific intervention, dedicated to the relationship between the ruin and its obsolete function as a former ship.
The stranded freighter is located in the Bay of Wismar in the north east of Germany and there it is exposed to decay for about 60 years. It was completely built out of ferrocement in 1944 during the era of National Socialism but never completed. During the era of the German Democratic Republic the concrete hull was used as a storage for canned fish and for ship components. In 1962 it was intentionally set aground in the Bay of Wismar to serve as a breakwater. All subsequent attempts to salvage the ship failed.
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