Question

Whose place is it anyway by martin kiszko summary?

Answer 1

‘Heimat is an intoxicant, a medium of transport; to contemplate Heimat means to imagine an uncontaminated space, a realm of innocence and immediacy.’

Time and space in this work are not dimensions that one can trace in a linear manner; rather they are paths interrupted by unexpected and novel relationships between the various images.

The dilation of each frame accentuates and establishes the nature of the image as a metaphor for the process of memory and forgetting.
The passage between one stage and another is a point where memory can exist, because time is not the story but a state (condition). Time and memory are fused together.

Renate Aller and Beverly Peterson started their collaborations with an invitation into the Museum of Labor, the Emigration Halls, Hamburg, and Eberwalde Film Festival Germany with their piece ‘Whose place is this anyway’.

The project was initiated by an artist group from Hamburg with an art event as a reaction due to the planned destruction of the last remaining emigration halls in Hamburg Veddel, an initiative including visual artists and performance artists. New York residing artist Renate Aller was invited for a contribution from the New York perspective. She decided to collaborate with filmmaker Beverly Peterson to create an 8 minute long, looping video for viewing on a monitor including popular archival materials and photos / sound and film/ photo material by Aller and Peterson. The project reflects the dreams and expectations of the emigrants to the USA of that time.
Aller and Petersons piece also considers the expectations and ideals of the current residents Veddels who are mainly immigrants from Turkey and other countries.