Fearghus Ó Conchúir Choreographer and Dance Artist
June 22, 2007

Wounds or graves

Working in Berlin this week, I responded again to the similarity of building sites to open graves in the city. ‘Dead like you’ – the graffiti on the building on the corner of Rosenthalerstrasse underlined the connection though I’m not sure what its point is. I think of it as a kind of memento mori.


This little grave in Kreutzberg is a gentler reminder of transience. The red tape marks the boundaries and signals danger. The collection of flint in the centre of the hole gives it a shrine-like quality, or a sense of an ancient tomb uncovered. In my head anyway…


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