Nana Petzet

»A Community Cooker for the Karo District«
Funktional Installation and Art Action, 2017 
Conception and Execution of the Furnace: 9minus1*artsupport und Jochen Weber
 

»Collecting separately, burning together« was the title of an entire theme section at a specialist conference of Hamburg’s waste resources business in February 2016. The slogan reveals the topicality of the question which, ever since the introduction of the »Duales System«, has concerned all citizens who separately collect waste: »Are the valuable materials that I collect separately actually being recycled?« In Hamburg a large part of the municipal waste ends up in the incinerator, including packaging waste with the Green Dot. Before this backdrop, Petzet came up with the idea of building a local incineration plant on the site of the Recyclinghof St. Pauli, following the example of the Community Cookers developed in Kenia. The cooker conceived and realised by 9minus8@artsupport and Jochen Weber is operated with plastic packaging material collected especially for this purpose and will be used in the frame of the Waste Cooking workshop.

Nana Petzet — Hamburg

Nana Petzet, Das SBF-System, Hamburg 1997,Baskets-braids from plastic bags, Photo: Quirin Leppert

Nana Petzet, recycling facility Rugenberger Damm, Hamburg 2017, Photo: Helge Mundt

Nana Petzet, test run Community Cooker, Hamburg 2017, Photo: Jochen Weber