“Flâneuse”

Byrumsprojekt i forbindelse med Alt_Cph 10 -In Space 2010

www.altcph.dk

I en moderne verden kan flanøren sammenlignes med turisten som betragter den globaliserede verden med et udefrakommende blik. Turisterne kan besøge og forlade steder efter lyst og behov og studere det offentlige liv ud fra et rent lystbetonet forhold. I modsætning hertil står flygtninge og hjemløse der ikke besidder det frie valgs mulighed og ikke kan trække sig tilbage i tryghed eller privathed. Da Alt_Cph 10 –In Space fandt sted i Sundholmskvarteret der huset Københavns største herberg for hjemløse valgte jeg at vende flanør begrebet om: Med udgangspunkt i en samtale med en tidligere hjemløs pige, nu beboer på Sundholm lavede jeg min egen spadseretur gennem Sundholmsvejkvarteret. Publikum fik udleveret et kort ud fra hvilken de kan følge min rute og stoppe op ved udvalgte steder, hvor plakater med citater fra Heidis fortælling var ophængt. På den måde kunne gåturen knytte nye fortællinger til byrummet.

Tak til Heidi for at dele sin historie.

”Flâneuse”

A City Space Project in connection with ALT_CPH –In Space 2010

www.altcph.dk

In the modern world a flaneur can be compared to a tourist who sees the globalized world with an objective eye. Tourists find themselves on the top of a mobile hierarchy and can visit and depart places as they wish. The tourist can study public life from a purely pleasurable point of view as opposed to refugees and homeless who do not have the privilege of free choice or the possibility to be in a secure space or find any privacy. When the Sundholms District faced a thorough renovation it also was home to Copenhagen’s largest shelter for the homeless. The homeless people of district easily be considered experts of public spaces and I found it relevant to give them a voice. My starting off point was a conversation with Heidi, a former homeless girl from the area. By using her stories and without revealing her routes I invented my own routes, crisscrossing the usual routes of the area. Afterwards the audience was be given a map of the area from which they could follow the route stopping at designated places. Posters with sentences from my conversation with Heidi was signposted. And taking a walk in this way would open the eyes of the audience to a new way of seeing the area.

Thanks to Heidi for sharing her story.

       

Øen Amagers Pizzaria og Burgerbar, Brydes Alle 36

"You have no private life as a homeless person. Perhaps you can have a small diary, but it is difficult to carry it around on your stomach. So I just started to throw the things I had writtten or drawn in the dustbin, to think-"you've got mail", then I knew that I wouldn't be sad. If it only was myself who threw it out.

        

Cafe Sundbyvester Skotlandsgade 13

You can get some cigarillos with taste of chocolate, they are really good. I smoked them a lot when I lived in the street. Everybody should smell it. Just think to have such a nice aroma around you as a homeless person.

     

Skotlands Plads, ved bænk.

"When I became homeless my father had just died. There are actually a lot of lonely elderly men who are homeless. That gave me a kind of sense of security just to sit next to them on the bench without us talking together. They gav a cup of coffée sometimes and a cigarette. They were very nice."

     

Skotlandsplads, over indgangen til boldbanen.

The whole street of Nørrebrogade is a runway for those giant seagulls which fly around and eat pieces of shawarmasandwiches that people have thrown out in their drunkenness. I remark all this before the sweeping. Sees things that have been destroyed in the night. Death and destruction".

     

Køpnerkirken, udhængsskabet. Hjørnet af Hemsedalsgade/Shetlandsgade

"The church says that it is all right to sit and talk with yourself, if only you say that you are talking with God. They approve that you are crazy".

     

Noa Noa Amagerbrogade, i vinduet.

"You don't want to be watched. You want to disappear. You actually dress a little bit like the men because you are afraid of being raped. If only someone looks at your tits one time you get really scared.I have no clothes witch match. It is only practical and warm. I also cut all my hair.

     

Hul i Hækken fra Sundholm med udsigt til Amagerfælled Skole

The children walk through Sundholm at half eight in the morning.Then you can see them in flocks. They nip through a hole in the fence out here.They nip through in order to get quicker  to school.They are not afraid neither for alcholics nor for junkies.

     

Sundholm, indgangsporten.

"It's a lot more windy here if you compare it to inside the city. It actually makes it harder to be homeless in relation to crossing that bridge. When you walk out here in the evening you can't think or anything. You can just adjust the time half an hour ahead in your head until you're there. You don't even have the stamina to think about being weakened."