A young woman stands at a station,
she doesn’t know it well but she has been here before.
The train arrives.
She gets on.
Slurps and suckles of artificial sound,
accompany the feeding of a swaddled pack.
The announcement comes
She hides her bare chest
Turns off the sound
And leaves
BaseNorth is in Berlin and involved with the New Life Berlin Festival organised by Wooloo. The Sandwich Box, Wooloo project gave us the opportunity to develop our work around the idea of regeneration. This project is of specific interest to us as we used to have studios in the Sunniside area in Sunderland, U.K, but have since been evicted as it is due to be redeveloped into luxury apartments and expensive studio spaces. The Sandwich Box gave us a free mobile space to work in. We feel the lack of affordable studio space due to urban regeneration is a significant problem in the U.K. We came to Berlin to participate in the New Life Berlin Festival it seemed a natural progression to create the BaseNorth International Studio as a space to create new work, make new contacts and encourage international exchange. We will send a postcard documenting the project to both our new and existing contacts in Berlin and in the U.K. We hope to raise awareness of the use and cost of studio space and the impact of regeneration on artists. For more information on this project visit www.wooloo.org/basenorth
BaseNorth is an artist collective consisting of Anna Puhakka, Nicola Smith and Sarah Stamp. We do not limit ourselves to working in the white cube, and work in response to the context of our surroundings.
