Bach, P: Passagen-Arbeit / 2 Tle.

Besonderheit: Drei Zeitschichten verbinden sich darin. Das heutige Paris überlagert sich mit Benjamins Zeit und der Epoche, die in den zitierten Textstellen erwähnt wird: Das Paris des 19. Jahrhunderts. Benjamin las Städte: In Passagen, Einbahnstraßen, Hinterhöfen, Straßenecken oder Schaufenstern fand er die Schichten der Geschichte auf - mit dem vorliegenden Stadtplan kann man dieser Spurenlese folgen und sich nun erstmals einen Weg durch das vielschichtige Paris von Benjamins Passagen bahnen. Patrizia Bach: "Arcades-Work"Drawings on Walter BenjaminAnd "Paris-City-Map"On Walter Benjamin's "Arcades-Project"The publication brings together an overview of Patrizia Bach's longstanding engagement with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project: a bundle of notes spanning 4000 pages that Benjamin collected together during his years in exile in Paris, constructed in Bibliothèque nationale, between 1927 until his death in 1940. Ever since the artist set eyes on the manuscripts in the Walter Benjamin Archive in Berlin for the first time in 2012, she could not relinquish herself from their unique qualities. The meticulously executed pages and their countless coloured markings appeared to contain meanings otherwise lost in the subsequent editions of the published work. Emanating from a graphic interaction with the work, a number of projects emerged: Patrizia Bach followed in Benjamin's footsteps to Paris and translated his colored symbols into an online digital format (see: www.benjamin-passagen.de); She also built up a series of over 150 drawings that take up Benjamin's methodologies: each of the drawings connect together. When dealing with such a work that resists the medium of a book and its linearity - the question arises as to how (and if) such a work should be wrenched back into the form of a book. The artist answers this with an invitation to browse. The order of the drawings follows Benjamin's convolutes - but, at the same time, they can be approached through all their possible connections: from one drawing to the next, from there to associated text, from there through the colored markings, from there to a corresponding drawing, and from a site in Paris and to the enclosed Walter-Benjamin- City-Map.