Freundliche Mitte – Tattooing the Earth

"Tattooing the Earth" is a collective mapping developed by artist group Freundliche Mitte. It centres around the landscape as a mirror of ownership structures, democratic and anti-democratic spaces, as a place of remembrance and sedimentation. Conceived as a walk-in installation, "Tattooing the Earth" feels its way along the surface of the earth, through colliding plates and habitats. Through disappearance. The result is a non-linear narrative assembled from bits and pieces that is continued and rewritten together with accomplices. Which memory remains, which counts?

Someone notes down what they experience, for the record, to defy the shifting of events, the memories that unfold and superimpose each other, break in and break up. It’s a record that attempts to capture an eluding, shifting, dissolving present. It’s the record of a peregrination through colliding landscapes, along the boundaries of tectonic plates, over white surfaces, vanished territories. It’s the protocol of someone’s own disappearance, from the landscape, from memories, from language. Which memory remains, which counts?

"Tattooing the Earth" is being created as a non-linear narrative assembled from bits and pieces, information, lies, and fiction, all continued and rewritten together with accomplices. A walk-in essay that keeps being written thus evolves at brut nordwest, with workshops and talks enhancing it. Perspectives are flexible, their images always incomplete, always moving.