Lena Kaapke (1989, Germany) is based Kiel. She started in 2008 to study arts and Latin for teaching at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel and later at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule. Kaapke finished her BA in March 2012.
The topic of my project is topography. Exactly like an archaeologist I roamed through the area of Stoke on Trent. I chose, collected, mapped, noted, inscribed and arranged what I found.
I collected everything that was somehow related to the factory,
things I am interested in.
In the evening, I always brought the back to the factory things I
had found.
There, I arranged them in a specific order. Each item I had found
was assigned the place I found it. The circle, my drawing ground,
represents the radius where I was looking for items. This is
how I want to characterise, explore and draw the location around
Stoke-on-Trent in a new manner. That way, I literally performed
topography, "topography of the obsolete". The word topography is is
of Greek origin (τόπος "place" and γράφω "write") and also means to
draw a place, not just to write about it. By drawing a new
topography, I am showing what is still left now. "Obsolete" refers
to the former importance of the place as a centre of
industry.
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