BIRDTOWER
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Videoinstallation, Performance with Karaoke, Augmented Reality-Installation and Performance with Selfie-Point and Merchandising
Germany, 2023-25, different actions
“It is the dawn of a new era.” The 245-metre-high Elbtower was intended to be a new landmark for Hamburg; a landmark that would set new standards.
The stop in construction has already changed everything, but also offers the opportunity for a unique new beginning. The Birdtower with its iconic flocks of birds will become a self-confident statement for a growing and future-oriented Hamburg: a local recreation area and tourist magnet, but also a unique landmark for a flourishing more-than-human city and new forms of urban coexistence.
In order to make this imagination “real”, visitors can stand on a selfie station to take a picture of themselves and the bird tower using augmented reality animation. Ideally with a “Birdtower” cap or T-shirt on, of course. Or sing a pigeon song!
Concept and production: Sultan Alawar, Francesca Bertin, Elena Friedrich, Floriane Grosset, Barbara Niklas, Max Sänger
Supported by Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
Show in Mikropol and Billhafen- Löschplatz (2023), Zollo (2024), Studio at Wendenstrasse (2025), Hamburg
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Germany, 2023-25, different actions
“It is the dawn of a new era.” The 245-metre-high Elbtower was intended to be a new landmark for Hamburg; a landmark that would set new standards.
The stop in construction has already changed everything, but also offers the opportunity for a unique new beginning. The Birdtower with its iconic flocks of birds will become a self-confident statement for a growing and future-oriented Hamburg: a local recreation area and tourist magnet, but also a unique landmark for a flourishing more-than-human city and new forms of urban coexistence.
In order to make this imagination “real”, visitors can stand on a selfie station to take a picture of themselves and the bird tower using augmented reality animation. Ideally with a “Birdtower” cap or T-shirt on, of course. Or sing a pigeon song!
Concept and production: Sultan Alawar, Francesca Bertin, Elena Friedrich, Floriane Grosset, Barbara Niklas, Max Sänger
Supported by Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
Show in Mikropol and Billhafen- Löschplatz (2023), Zollo (2024), Studio at Wendenstrasse (2025), Hamburg
