das vorzimmer
2024


 performance, proposed site-specific intervention

weimar, germany

in bureaucratic architecture, a vorzimmer is a german word for an antechamber; a room that precedes a more significant room or function; a public space that equally, if not more, echoes the authority behind it. a vorzimmer is fear and anxiety, a time-wasting machine, the rules and doctrines; an obstacle that limits accessibility. 

questioning authoritative practices, an intervention on the campus of the bauhaus-universität weimar proposes the establishment of a vorzimmer as a gatekeeping agent, symbolising the mechanisms of control and restriction inherent in bureaucratic systems and societal structures. das vorzimmer serves as a metaphor for the ways in which authority seeks to delay, prevent, and hinder individual autonomy and agency.





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this project was proposed for the aptitude test of the mfa program public art and new artistic strategies, bauhaus-universität weimar



video, 3d model, text and performance: ameer masoud
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