According to their function, flags mark affiliations of different kinds as well as special messages. But instead of symbolic motifs, the flags in the installation Wind und Wetter (2021) show views of the sky photographed by Chili Seitz. These are similar, but are each individual, unique snapshots of clouds drifting through a blue sky. In the wind they become moving images. The views contradict the originally military-patriarchal gesture of power of showing the flag, after all they depict what cannot be conquered territorially by humans. The artist occupies masts that have already been installed and counteracts the hegemonic messages that are otherwise attached at this point by showing what is already there. It doesn't add anything new to the place, but rather draws attention to the always given: wind and weather. The locations of the wandering installation are always places with farsightedness. There, the mostly local identification signs are replaced by views of the sky, the motif of which is familiar to everyone. They don't exclude anyone - quite the opposite, because the everydayness of the sight marks everyone as a citizen of the world.
To install the piece, either one or several flags, flagpoles of the public space will be used. Masts that are decorating the urban space anyway are occupied by the installation "wind and weather".
