Archive / Peep Under the Elbe

Nr. 432 / 2008 / Germany

Peep Under the Elbe


Initiator(s)

Critical Art Ensemble

Description

The project aimed at providing residents of Wilhelmsburg, a poor and neglected neighbourhood in Hamburg, a water testing kit for analysing the quality of the canal water near their homes in order to find out clean swimming and fishing areas.

Location

Germany

Goals

Try to encourage populations who use the canals for recreation to move around a bit, finding where the safest places were for the popular activities of swimming and fishing.

Beneficial outcomes

It empowered people with tools, CAE tested the quality of the local water, and gave the inhabitants water testing kits to monitor their own environments.

Maintained by

Exhibition ‘Natur/Kultur’, curated by Anke Haarmann and Harald Lemke

Users

CAE (Steve Kurtz, Lucia Sommer and Steve Barnes), Inhabitants.

Links

http://critical-art.net/
http://www.thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=986