Lost and Found
Contribution by Olaf Bargheer An Apple DVI adapter is the simplest tool to make artists happy. It’s something one should always have in one’s bag, along with a pack of cable straps and a roll of gaffer tape. A digital mirror-reflex camera belongs to the simplest but also most unthankful basic pieces of equipment of a blogger. It’s always around one’s shoulders during a festival. But it is always readily borrowed by press assistants, student assistants and artists to quickly shoot a photo spread of a performance or a panel discussion. The camera is then returned with a full memory card, empty battery or not at all. By the way: A festival entrance container is not the appropriate place to store a camera in a supposedly secure way. The actual owner of the SLR spent an entire Friday morning retracing the shift changes at the entrance counter to assess when, between two and four a.m. and the following noon, my camera disappeared. The story’s happy end, by the way, is only possible in Hamburg: The camera finally showed up, officially, in the shelves of the festival organisation’s “Lost and Found”. The warhorses recruited from Berlin to work there just said, quite surprised: “Would’ve never popped up again in Berlin, your camera. I’m surprised it was left here.”
Organization team: Sascha Schneider, Hajo Toppius, Swaantje Burow, Alicja Adamczyk, Uwe Sinkemat