ドイツ・シュテュットガルドでは、長年にわたり中央駅の地下への新造計画が進められていた。このプロジェクト《Stuttgart 21》は市民の反対によってしばらく中断されていたが、２０２２年の完成に向けて２０１０年ごろ再び動き出した。
私は自宅から中央駅へ向かう際にその工事現場の前を通り、日々変化する様子を楽しんでいたが、依然と続いている建設反対デモに度々遭遇し、複雑な心境であった。そして工事が突然加速したことをきっかけに、部外者の私がここの市民の問題に関わるべきではないという気持ちを、その計画にまつわる問題の一つとして提示することにした。毎月曜のデモに〈EIN LOCH OHNE BODEN (土のない穴)〉の札を持って紛れること、そして工事現場のモニュメントを制作することによって、数年後に消えて無くなる彼らの反抗の軌跡を記録した。
Gelassen Bleiben/Keeping calm, 2015
Performance
In Stuttgart, a railway development project (Stuttgart 21) has been going on for over twenty years, started again in 2010 and it is scheduled to be slated for completion in 2022.
As a part of it, the main station has been renewing and I had passed in front of its construction site almost every day for two years. Meanwhile I became interested in the very thing of the view there, and then decided to go along with the protest against the development project.
At a certain time, I noticed that all efforts of the resistants came to nothing by the accelerated construction, and determined to engage in the movement against the project. Therefore I first tried to make a monument of the construction site, so that it could remind them of history of that some day. After that, I had looked for the way to maintain traces of their resistance which would certainly disappear from sight.
