Sense of Place: Hanover with Art Clay & Monika Rut

Inspired by the past and present cultural identities, the series of projects “A Sense of Place” is an immersive and interactive artwork. In the project, the representation of heritage as syntheses takes place as an expression and as a mediation of the concept of a virtually shared relationship between the past and the present in an attempt to synthesize the dimensions of both into a single sense of place. Having to deal with diverse points in time and the interplay between historical and contemporary place with its collective and individual identities can only be overcome and manifest as an artwork through the aid of technology, which allows for the representation of past time by projecting into it onto the virtual space of the present.
The work in the series which was created for Hannover is in the form of a dialog with the actual space in which it is shown. The Federfabrik, located in Linden, Hannover, forms the basis of the work and although not dependent on the the space, the ideas and concepts in the work are connected to it as analogy as well as inspirational. What is universal in such a setting comes to light in the work and this universality lends the work its independence and allows it to take root in other places than its point of conceptual origin.