Der Trampelpfad als Volksskulptur
Iintervemtion in Public Space, 2005
Beaten path declared as a sculpture of the people. Thüringische Landeszeitung from July 14th 2005.
The mayor M. Seifert with the memorial plaque.
Sylvie Boisseau presents her intervention to the TV public.
The lawn with the path in north-west direction, on the right the Herder school.
The housing project in northern Weimar.
Compact individual prints create a collective path - visualized by an archeological cut realized with the archeologist Ronald Hirte.
The compacting of the ground is visible in tears in the scar in the grass. The light layer, rich in clay, is pressed down to the level of the trail.
Measuring the compression of the collectively-accrued power in Nm.
Eighteen-page appraisal on the “investigation of the effects of walking on an unpaved path on the level of compacting and carrying capacity of a grassy area,” Herold & Partner Engineering Office.
Visitors to the exhibition; the woman in the foreground listens to the recording with the collected stories on the emergence of the trail.
Discussion with residents wether my intervention of a "Volksskulptur" is related to Beuys' or if it is a continuation of the socialist "Bitterfelder Weg" (Bitterfelder Weg, 1959, GDR)
The residents gave me an article about a beaten path in Weimar from 1987.