More than twenty-five over-ground bunkers can be found in my hometown of Duisburg, Germany. These concrete structures are an imposing reminder of an atrocious past. For decades they have been repurposed: some into flats, some occupied by musicians and artists and some as accommodation for the elderly.
I invited my family and friends to participate in an abstract re-enactment of recurring memories and images. Filmed in the bunker on Kummerstrasse (Grief Street), the last one built by the Nazis in 1943. We move through floors and layers [re]visiting sites of intensity. We just want something soft to fit between our heads and the earth.
Meticulously and with a certain detachment my mother and her partner have prepared their own resting place, and since my mother has started forgetting, I am trying to grasp the broken pieces that have come from her to me: the trauma that passed between us. My unwelcome inheritance.
Susanne Dietz 2018
I invited my family and friends to participate in an abstract re-enactment of recurring memories and images. Filmed in the bunker on Kummerstrasse (Grief Street), the last one built by the Nazis in 1943. We move through floors and layers [re]visiting sites of intensity. We just want something soft to fit between our heads and the earth.
Meticulously and with a certain detachment my mother and her partner have prepared their own resting place, and since my mother has started forgetting, I am trying to grasp the broken pieces that have come from her to me: the trauma that passed between us. My unwelcome inheritance.
Susanne Dietz 2018
‘Bunker On Kummerstraße [Grief Street]’ 2-Channel video installation © Susanne Dietz 2018
‘Bunker On Kummerstraße [Grief Street]’ 2-Channel video installation © Susanne Dietz 2018
‘Bunker On Kummerstraße [Grief Street]’ 2-Channel video installation © Susanne Dietz 2018
Goldsmiths
Postgraduate Exhibition
MA Artists' Film
& Moving Image
2018
Small Pool
Laurie Grove Baths
6 Laurie Grove
London SE14 6NH
See you there!