Radek Hewelt

At a time when social media tempt us to keep diaries disclosed on a global scale, the question arises anew: how to share the intimate quotidian life that unpredictably unfolds day by day? How to find our way into the landscape of days? At the same time, we experience strange days in which all our relationships to our diverse environments change, and must change. We are already used to calling this change ‘climate change’. But have we yet understood what it really means? The experimental project Passenger Diaries is a testing ground for a journey into another life in the close neighbourhood that is as personal as it is oriented towards the environment, urban and suburban spaces. To enter this close range is itself the passage we seek and attempt.

The Passenger, inspired by Iggy Pop’s mythical song, is understood as a ‘cloud’, a ‘state’ that can be adopted by going on a micro-trip, a state one can ‘host’ for the duration of this trip.

Guests are invited to share those trips with The Passenger. The trace of this process, again partly travelling in social media, we call the diary of this passenger, manifesting as a public blog.

In three Salons de Passages social situations will be created for sharing and exchanging around the micro-trippings together with guests who are active in the fields of urban planning, care economy, historical research, media, the arts, performance and other fields of expertise.

Key Researcher:
Mariella Greil (Art and Communication Practices)
Lucie Strecker (Angewandte Performance Laboratory)
KT Zakravsky (Social Design)

Photography:

Radek Hewelt