anonymous/3Q september 2011

anonymous/3Q september 2011

Our interpretation of anonymous is based on human behaviour. Humans have the urge and the need to act in certain ways that sometimes requires the shelter of anonymity, whatever it is by changing apearence, being invisible or using the environments to obtain this shelter. We wanted do discover and tell the story’s of what usually passes you by but you might not notice or think about. We want to tell the storys of the people you usually never see.

Interactive Basics with JEREMY ABBETTMiami Ad School Europe 2011

My first stop: Hamburg Berliner Tor. The dull and industri-al atmosphere from outside changes directly after you step into “superbude”. Hip T-shirts and colourful hippy dress-es, I-macs, skate and art magazines, candy cherrys for ten cents. “We are the cool guys, your friends in the fore-ground with professionalism behinde.” Julian Piontek ex-plains me in the hotel’s own cinema about the concept of “superbude”. About a Hotel/Hostel that owns rooms with a lot of beds, where friends can stay the hole night together or strangers meet new people. No matter if the guests are under sixteen or over ninety. We are taking a walk around the house. The rooms on the first floor come in green, the second in pink and the sixth in grey. I see little kids with their parents, hard rock metal fans dressed in black and a hung-over group of youngsters. “The people who are coming are mainly tourist, but we also have some business people com-ing.” More small details appear: chalk boards for messages in the hallways, mouse taps as magazine holders, crates of beer transform into stylish stools and downstairs a kitchen where people cook together and sit on long tables. The only visible anonymity is transferred into small walls in each room to guarantee a bit of privacy for changing clothes in the morn-ing. Additionally to that the professionalism in the background makes sure that a guests story stays with him and doesn’t spread to other guests to guarantee privacy. “Personality begins with the wish for a second pillow”, ex-plains Elena Wassermann to me. She works at the reception of the luxury Empire River Side Hotel Hamburg, my second station to ask for anonymity. She is a friendly woman with a big smile on her face, dressed in a black suit that looks like a uniform. From the outside the Hotel with its glass and met-al feels like a skyscraper, an alien element in the colourful and trashy Reeperbahn harbour atmosphere. Gigantic slid-ing doors open to the even bigger lobby. The hotel rooms: a bed, a TV, mini bar, a couch, a bathroom. The only variety is between the corner rooms of the hotel and the ones that just have a view in one direction. The simple, sleek and modern design of the hotel fits to its strict requirements about the anonymity of their guests. The answer is no.

SOMEONE HASSLEPT IN MY BEDFACELESS LONG HALLWAYS, IDENTICAL DOORS. NO DOORBELLS, NO NAMESIGHNS. IN RED, WHITE, CARPETS OR PARQUET, OLD ,MODERN, CHEAP OR EXPENSIVE. HOTELS ARE PLACES WERE OUR IDENTIFICATION IS REDUCED TO A NUMBER ON THE DOOR. BUT HOW ANONYMOUSE HOTELS REALLY ARE? COMING FROM THIS QUESTION, I TOOK A LOOK IN TWO DIFFERENT HOTELS.

anonymous/3Q by Anne-Grit Maier

Furthermore one cannot contact a guest if he left something in the room, no matter if it is a Rolex watch or shower gel. “It could also be a surprised wife on the phone, thinking that her husband is out of town rather spending nights in the ho-tel with...” From the outside unapproachable, from the inside welcoming: on the other hand, especially the business guest, who spend most of their time in hotels beds appreciate being called by their names and being recognized and the staff re-membering their preferences in the hotel. This feels at least a little bit like being at home. What happens in a hotel stays in the hotel. When a celebrity checks in to the hotel the mem-bers of the Riverside staff are not allowed to talk about it with their friends or family. Nevertheless, a funny or crazy story about guests doesn’t need more time then a day to spread in the whole hotel employee world. Anonymity in hotels? We should turn it into the question: how anonymous do the guest want to be? Do we want to be alone and anonymous in a single bed room or do we want to meet new people? It depends on the reasons why we are staying at a hotel. Because we have to? Like the business guests who are used to it or the tourists who are excited about going to hotels. Moreover there are guests who want to have the ben-efit of hiding in a hotel. Affair-couples, prostitutes, criminals. Nobody can contact you, nobody can find you. No matter if you pay twenty euros a night in a six bed room at superbude or up to two hundred euros at the Empire River Side, in the end it is the same. You trust the employees like you trust your doctor’s duty to maintain confidentiality. What happens in a hotel, stays in the hotel. It’s like a small universe. The perfect example for this is that no other hotel has allowed me to take a look behind their closed doors to maintain the anonymity of their guests. In the end it is the cleaning lady, the person who sees how we leave the rooms that knows exactly after a minute what kind of guest was there. That means even if we think we are anonymous and the employees maintain this idea for us, we already recovered ourselves and became un-anonymous.

anonymous/3Q by Anne-Grit Maier

 She  told  me  to  come  back  on  a  Sunday  at  5,  “  The  bar  is  quite  empty  then  so  we  can  talk”    I  thanked  her  and  left  the  crowded  bar  in  St  Pauli  where  she  works  as  a  bouncer  on  the  weekends.  Sunday  came  and  as  I  was  walking  down  the  Repeherbahn,  one  of  Hamburgs  most   famous  streets   I   realised  that  I  never  saw  it  so  empty  and  tired  looking.  The  street  is  usually  crowded  with    annoying  drunk  tourist,  prostitutes  and  bouncers.  The  statement  that  sex  sells  seams  to  be  true  because  the  Repherbahn  is     lined  up  with  sex-­shops,  shows,  strip-­clubs,  bars,  clubs,  brothels  and  everything  else  covering  the   topic  sex  attracts  all  kinds  of  people  and   is   the  main   tourist  attraction  in  Hamburg.  The  bar  Janina  works  for  lies  on  a  street  just  right  of  the  Rep-­herbahn.  Its  the  one  of  the  oldest  transvestite  bars  in  Germany.  I  stepped  into  the  empty  bar  and  I  asked  the  small  very  tanned  bartender  Juan  if  Janina  was  there    “  She  is  chaining  her  clothes  and  will  be  out  in  a  second”  he  said  and  started  to  dance  to  an  old  Celine  Dion  hit  from  the  late  90´s  while  he  was  polishing  the  wine  glasses.  After  5  minutes  of  observing  the  bartender  a  tall,  blond,  powerfully  build   transvestite  enters   the  bar.  Dressed   in  a  small   red  latex  dress  and  high  heels  she  walks  uncomfortable  to  the  bar  and  buys  me  

her  voice  is,  not  like  many  other  transvestites  who  choose  to  talk  in  a  higher  pitch  then  usual  in  order  to  sound  more  feminine.  We  small  talk  and  cover  all  the  classic  “  get  to  know  echoer  questions”  and  after  that  we  agree  that  I  will  come  to  her  house  tuesday  the  following  week.  I  thank  her  again,  waved  to  Juan  that  had  exchanged  the  Celine  Dion  to  funky  latin  beats  and  advanced  hip  movements  and  then  I  left.When  the  tuesday  arrives  the  rain  is  poring  down  and  I  found  myself  stand-­ing  on  a  buss  station  in  a  small  suburban  area  45  min  outside  of  Hamburg.  I  had  no  idea  of  where  to  go,  Janina  said  she  would  pick  me  up  at  the  station  with  the  car.  I  then  realised  that  the  person  that  was  supposed  to  pick  me  up  

wasn’t  really  Janina.  It  was  in  a  way  another  person  that  I  never  saw  before  and  I  had  no  idea  of  how  she    would  look.Then  Janina  calls  me  and   tells  me  she’s  waiting  outside   the  supermarket.  There  was   just   one   person   standing   outside   in   the   poring   rain.  A  man   in  his  mid  40´s  with  short  brown  hair  and  dressed  in  the  typical  construction  worker  uniform.  “Tanya!,   lets  run  to   the  car!”  The  only   thing  I  could  recog-­nise  from  the  Janina  I  knew  was  the  voice.  We  drove  to  a  quiet  street  of  row  houses.”This  house  is  actually  for  a  family  so  its  to  big  for  me,  Im  all  alone  here.I  used  to  be  married  once,  but  still  I  didnt  stop  transforming  to  Jania,  it  was  doomed  to  end  “she  said  and  laughedJanina  made  us  coffee  and  we  sat  down   to   talk.  Janina   told  me   that  she  started   to   cross   dress   when   she  was   18.  When   I   ask     where   her   name  comes  from  she  tells  me  that  she  took  it  from  her  godchild.  Her  family  does  not  know  anything  about  her  double  life  and  her  father  is  old  now  she  says  “he  would  never  understand,  he’s  from  a  different  world,  it  would  kill  him  if  I  told  him  now”  When  she  was  younger  she  was  considering  plastic  surgery  and  hormones  to  become  more  feminine,  but  now  she  happy  just  chaining  her  appearance.  “  I  actually  want  to  be  a  women  for  24  h  a  day,  but  I  cant,  I  need  my  job  as  a  metal-­construction  worker  in  order  to  pay  my  loan  for  the  house,  working  at   the  bar   is   just  a  hobby   for  me,   its  a  way   to  meet  other  transvestites.  We  are  all  like  a  small  family  in  a  way  and  we  help  each  other  and  we  care  about  one-­another,  but  transvestites  are  also  one  of  the  worst  backstabbing  bitches  ever”  she  says  and  laughs.  She  excused    herself  and  told  me  she  needs  to  take  a  shower  after  work  and  then  she  she  is  going  to  get  dressed  and  take  me  out  on  the  repherbahn.  I  waited  in  the  living  room  and  after  10  minutes  Janina  comes  down  again,  this  time  she  was  not  wear-­ing  her  working  clothes  but    had  changes  into  small  black  leather  shorts  and  a    tight  black  top  “  lets  go  to  the  bathroom  she  said  and  I  will  do  my  make-­

JANINABY  CHAINING  YOUR  APPEARANCE  AND  LOOKS  YOU  ARE  ABLE  TO  TRANSFORM  YOUR  SELF  INTO  ANONYMOUS  PERSON.  WHEN  

YOU  CHOOSE  TO  REMOVE  IT,  IT  ALSO  STOPS  EXISTING.  THE  FREEDOM  LIES  IN  THE  FACT  THAT  YOU  ARE  STILL  YOU,  BUT    AS  

NOBODY  ELSE  MIGHT  RECOGNISE  YOU,  YOU  ARE  THERFORE  MORE  FREE  TO  ACT  OUT  AND  BEHAVE  IN  A  WAY  THAT  YOU  OTHER-­

WISE  WOULD  NOT.  FOR  JANINA  ITS  THE  OPPOSITE,  WHEN  SHE  TRANSFORMS  HERSELF  SHE  FEELS  AND  ACTS  LIKE  THE  PERSON  

SHE  WANTS  TO  BE  AND  HER  REAL  APPEARANCE  IS  HER  ANONYMITY  AND  INVISIBILITY.  WITHOUT  CHAINING  HER  APPEARANCE  

SHE  FEELS  LIKE  A  WHITE  PIECE  OF    PAPER  SHE  TELLS  ME.  HER  REAL  APPEARANCE  IS  NOT  THE  CORRECT  REFLECTION  OF  

HER  PERSON.  SINCE  THE  AGE  OF  18  SHE  HAS  TRANSFORMED  HER  APPEARANCE  AND  LIVED  TWO  LIVES  WITH  TWO  IDENTITIES.    

anonymous/3Q by    Tanya  Mokdadanonymous/3Q by Tanya Mokdad

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Some people say that there are limits to what money can buy.Living in a world where money defines the power of one in-dividual among the others, how far is a person ready to push those limits, and what is a person ready to do for money? In the Arab world, this power has pushed some rich men to offer, women or men, a big amount of money in exchange of sexual pleasure for one night only. This habit has been highly witnessed in my country Lebanon, that tends to be less conservative than the surrounding countries, where girls can freely wear bikinis to the beach, and revealing dress-es to the parties which is actually forbidden in most of the other Middle-Eastern and Gulf countries, but still where most of the people claim never selling their bodies for money.Yet, the imaginary numbers offered, especially for boys, has led many of them to doubt their beliefs and find themselves in a dilemma between money and honor.

The night comes and goes. It is not the hard part. The hard part remains in the conscious of the people and their reputa-tion in a society that watches them, one day struggling for a living, and the next day driving a Ferrari, wearing the most expensive brands and going to the fanciest places. It’s even harder when this major problem is exposed to the whole world through the rise of Lebanese singers and actors that found fame as the best chance of getting bought by rich Arabs for a night, making even more money and becoming more famous, dragging the reputation of the country down with them.Still, the number of people who accept this offer keeps on increasing despite the difficulties that it leads to, putting a whole society in question, and sometimes making people live their whole life with regret and self-disgust. It is indeed sur-prising how persuasive and powerful money can be when it allows you to buy people into becoming something they’re not.But who’s to blame in this situation? A young girl or boy se-duced by a big amount of money and by this feeling of se-curity that only money can provide you with or a man who has the power to control a person’s beliefs or even a whole society’s standards and values.

Lebanese stereotypes: “The Girl who became a singer and the guy who bought a Cadillac overnight”.Photography by Tarek Moukaddem

ARE YOU FOR SALE?MONEY AND ITS PERSUASIVE POWERWE ALL CHASE MONEY EVERY DAY. IN FACT, MONEY IS A REQUIREMENT FOR A RESPECTFUL LIFE. BUT WHAT IF YOU GET OFFERED THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME RICH? WHAT IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN EXCHANGE FOR ONE NIGHT WITH A RICH WEALTHY ARAB MAN?

anonymous/3Q by Fanny Abou Rached

anonymous/3Q by Fanny Abou Rached

These statistics were conducted on people of different ages and nationali-ties. The graphs show how they answered the question “If a rich arab man came to you and offered you a certain amount of money to spend the day with him (sex included), what would your answer be?”

MAKING OF “Z” PROJECT“THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA” BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE IS ONE OF THE DEEPEST BOOKS OF MANKIND. HOWEVER, DUE TO IT’S COMPLICATED NATURE AND UNPOPULAR CONTENT, THE BOOK REMAINS ANONIMOUS FOR THE PUBLIC. “Z” PROJECT, USING VARIOUS SOCIAL MEDIA, AIMS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THIS MASTERPIECE, BY CREATING COMPELLING ILLUSTRATIONS.

anonymous/3Q by George Bokhua

Sketch #1. Experiments with composition and symbolism

Sketch #3. Final composition Sketch #4. List of visual symbols from each section of the prologue. Drawings of the Si-lavaplaneree mountains in Switzerland (the

place where nietzsche’s thought of “eternal recurance” was born)

Sketch #2. List of visual symbols and quo-tations of those symbols from the prologue.

anonymous/3Q by George Bokhua

Sketch #5. Siant in the forest and a bear “why not be like me - a bear amongs bears”

Goat Heard Man (Prologue, Sec.3) - “and all the people laughed at Zarathustra”

Sketch #7 Saint in the forest (Prologue, Sec.2) - “why not be like me - a bear amongs bears”

Bosche’s composition style as a usefull reference.

Sketch #6 Serpent (Prologue, Sec.10) - “wisest animal under the sun” (Experiments with frame forms)

Henri Rousseau’s style as a usefull refer-ence

Men literally taking a look at the other side of the closet do not want to masquerade or live out fantasies but the freedom to dress individually without being tied to feminine or masculine standards. Many men feel that they cannot express them-selves through jeans and t-shirt or a suit. So some pioneers went looking for new inspirations and found them in women’s clothing which delivers a wider field of possibilities. Women’s fashion constantly plays with gender roles. Andro-gyne style elements such as boyfriend pants, military jackets or a men’s denim shirt have found its way into every fashion-able girl’s wardrobe. But men using female attributes still have a gay connotation for most people.

Although skinny jeans and low cut shirts have already reached the wide masses, anything which further resembles female clothing still causes a small sensation on the street. Until the french revolution so considered „feminine attributes“ such as skirts displayed wealth and power and originated from men. The persian cavalry for example invented high heels to provide them with more grip in the stirrups.So how come now with gender roles mixing up in almost every aspect of our life, society is so keen on keeping the „right“ clothes on the right gender, at least concerning men?

Men wearing make up - nothing new on the runway but still very unusal on the street.

THE NEW EDGE -GOING PUBLIC? A NEW SENSE OF FEMININITY EVOLVES IN MAN FASHION. NOT LONGER ONLY GAY MEN WEAR FEMALE CLOTHING, BUT ALSO SOME STRAIGHT, NOT AT ALL FEMININE MEN EXPERIMENT WITH FEMALE ATTRIBUTES SUCH AS HIGH HEELS OR MAKE UP.

anonymous/3Q by Sinya Horwedel

Right: Men should not feel like they have to wear a mask when experimenting with different styles and angles.

“Women’s clothing offers a larger range of possibilities to express oneself. Why not take advantage of that?”

anonymous/3Q by Sinya Horwedel

When asked about the sensation he had when he is out there, making graffiti in the streets of Hamburg, Dr. Duckfame told us that it is like being Batman. When he is doing his work he forgot about the art student or the guy who dreams to have his own brand. He is now a caracter that helps the city creates it´s own identidy. He is one of the very talented artists from now a days that makes us pass by the train stations, caffees, brothels and ask: “What the fuck is this duck doing here?”

Street art is about freedom of speech and like a superheroe, to create something good, sometimes you have to hide yourself to be protected. From police, family or society itself, maybe people are not ready yet to understand the porpose of putting some colors and draws where the gray tunnels, bridges and buildings take place. Püppikuka, another new raising artist from Hamburg, agrees with it and adds “It is the feeling of getting anonymous, to obtain a second identidy.”

INCOGNITOSUPER HEROESOF STREETS.LIKE IN THE COMICS, STREET ARTISTS HAVE THEIR OWN MISSION AND VISION TO ACCOM-PLISH. THEY RISK THEIR TRUE IDENTITY AND FACE ANY KIND OF DANGER SEEKING ONLY ONE GOAL: FREEDOM TO PASS THEIR HIDDEN MESSAGES TO SOCIETY.

anonymous/3Q by Amanda Brencys & Catharina Sonnenberg

The works of Dr. Duckfame (above) and Püppikuka (draw and pole).

Dr. Duckfame

anonymous/3Q by Amanda Brencys & Catharina Sonnenberg

“It feels like beingBatman.”