Urban Miscellanea
2020-2022, 2025
Urban Miscellanea is an experimental multimedia anthology that celebrates creativity situated within the urban.
2020/21: States of Apprehension
2021/22: Urban emergency / urban rhythms
2025: Archiving
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Aisha Altenhofen
2020/21
Desire to See Everything from Nowhere
Visual essay
Bio
Aisha Altenhofen is an artist. She studied Art History, European Ethnology and Fine Arts in Bangkok and Berlin, where she lives and works.
Desire to See Everything from Nowhere consists of screenshots taken in 2021 inside Google Street View’s depiction of the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok. The series began with an interest in dislocation and photography.
Navigating through the stitched commercial architectures of the platform and the mall one encounters the surrealist hauntings of multiple temporalities, privacy laws, invisible authors and technical actors. The interactive movement through a frozen images sphere offers rise to new types of visuality and map abstractions that shift the relation to urban environments while depicted from a constructed empty centre.