BUSSTOP 73 - Living Maps
concept and idea: Michael Pinsky
Different people from the neighborhood draw a detailed image of Macondo from memory. These divergent images will be combined and layered into a single map which continually changes as new and contradictory information is added. This map will be placed as an enormous billboard at the Zinnergasse/Kaserne bus stop. Anyone can add or erase information as they wait for their bus. All new statements, defamations and scribbles will be integrated into the “official map” over time.
Production/Project Map of the various actions we talked about for Life on Earth Dec 2008 © Cabula6 , Michael Pinsky and Roland Schmidt
Busstop 73A - The Map
Individual maps, fantasies and visions of Macondo drawn by different people who have lived in the neighborhood anywhere from fifty years to 1 month, will be fused into a single massive map and displayed on the billboard wall of the Zinnergasse-Kaserne bus stop. Those waiting for their bus as well as passersby can daily add, draw, scribble new information, missing names, locations, graffiti and teenage declarations of love and disdain - thereby becoming the primary actors in a continually evolving exhibition - as their additions are reprinted and reintegrated into the map over the following several months. Here is an image of the map which was posted on the Busstop 73A. To see a video of the setup, click here.
The Legend
The sites on the original drawings were written in German, English, Chechneyan, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Farsi, and Pashtun. Here is the legend from the various languages into German. To see a video of the Vernissage, click here.
The 36 Original Drawings :
Some of the original Mapping Sessions :
Video of the Mapping Sessions:
mapping sessions, 2009