un-safe by Eliza Krikoni (Athens) & The Krank (Berlin) 
Double Instagram live stream performance 

Bodies, medical mask, plastic material,  smartphones, social media
presented by Museum of Now

April 2020, today.

“Humanity is stricken by COVID-19. Thousands of people have lost their lives and even more exist under perilous conditions, not only due to the unexpected progression of the pandemic but also because of the vertigo of the unstable and fragile economic structure that they balance upon. The majority of governments worldwide have imposed a national curfew. The fear of the fabricated prosperity of the modern world collapsing is bigger than ever before. The medical community advises: #stayhome. Social distancing utterly alters the once before multidimensional communication into a binary one."

Unlock the mind: How can bodies communicate with each other under conditions of a global lockdown? 

The project un—safe deals with the struggle of two people to overcome the distance and the introversion of isolation in order to create an interaction. Their physical distance is defined at 2.331 km and finds them anchored in their own solitary cyberspace, experiencing a parallel reality. Through their cyber-secure communication, a communal space and time is created, an open dialogue which stems from their concerns upon issues of social inequality.

Both of them are experiencing a dystopian condition of apprehension and insecurity for the day after, and seek the boundaries between individual and state  responsibility. They negotiate the provision of and accessibility to public health, winding up questioning their very own existence, and also the form of their future coexistence. The audience, unwittingly trapped inside two different prisms, comes out of the passive position of the spectator and  subsequently becomes witness to their own reactions between two worlds that tend to merge.

Un-safe is part of the Museum of Now digital exhibition "Distant Bodies" 

curated by Denis Leo Hegic, Michelle Houston & Jan Fiedler
supported by YAP - yes, and... productions

un-safe

In a parallel universe this art installation would be forbidden. Traces is a 100 square meter art installation made with 500 trash bags at X-lane Berlin. What are we going to do with all the waste?

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Traces

art installation by TheKrank /// Artbase Festival Berlin 2019

Dear people,

this is one of those moments that I am really sad to present you my new work. I couldn’t stay passive concerning the huge ecological disasters we are facing this year. Amazon rain-forests have been hammered down by thousands of fires during the last weeks. My art installation is an image of the present yet a silent representation of the future. My intention is not to make you withdraw from the issue and try to think something else that makes you feel better. Climate change is not a distant issue anymore. It is a very complicated and fundamental problem which is invisible to us but affects everyone.

We live in a world in which the mode of our being, can and often does have greater influence on what happens than what we as a collective will. Even if everyone on this earth agrees that the planet is in danger, if the idea persists that we can reverse the situation without changing anything about how we live and how we do politics all the good intentions in the world will amount to nothing. We cannot live how we used to anymore and we cannot let the saving of our planet be a byproduct of the smooth running of a system that created the problem in the first place and now reaches its hand in repent. Don't take it.

We are paradoxically at a time when we need to be panicking but simultaneously keeping our poise. We need personal responsibility but it is not enough to just do that. Our anger has to be channeled not only towards the choices we make inside the absurd ramifications of the system we are living in, but also towards the system itself. It is not enough to make the right choices inside the given options, 
it is time for new options.

Yours sincerely,
TheKrank

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Besichtigungstermin! is a temporary art exhibition, which aims to open a dialogue about the housing crisis of metropolitan areas in a 20 square-meters room in the unaffordable neighbourhood of Friedrichshain. A district that has been already changed, raising a big question for the future of Kreuzberg and Neukölln. 

People from all over the world are migrating in the fast-growing and promising capital of Germany, leading to a huge demand that disorganises the housing structure. Contemplating the big number of short-term rental options and the rising prices of residential areas by real estate companies, brings up a big headache to everyone who is looking for an apartment. 

about the artist:
The Krank (Greece, 1988) is a Berlin-based urban artist focusing on typography and abstract expressionism. He has a distinct and strong Berliner aesthetic portraying deep messages
which take over space by creating a unique and dynamic art installation both indoors and outdoors. The Krank hides stories and messages in his works that speak about his worldview. 
“My stories are written in a very deep visual language that reflects the impact of contemporary life in human psychology and in the society.”

His ideology revolves around conscience and humanity. Through his projects, he tries to develop an ethical state within the complex structure of modern life, aiming at a deeper understanding of the substantive. It is his duty to capture the most sincere interpretation of the world by opening up a dialogue for alternative visions.

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Besichtigungstermin! is part of UrbanCrisis 2020, an ongoing art project by TheKrank, which exams the deterioration in the condition of modern urbanisation through humanitarian perspective.

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Besichtigungstermin! art exhibition

Mural created in Kiev, Ukraine 2019
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