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<div class=""><b class="">THICK SPACE</b><br class="">
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ANDREAS BUNTE<br class="">
JULIA HORSTMANN<br class="">
KARINA NIMMERFALL<br class="">
BOJAN ŠARČEVIĆ<br class="">
JOCHEN SCHMITH<br class="">
MIRJAM THOMANN<br class="">
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March 8–9, 2018<br class="">
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Public tour: Friday, March 9, 12:30 pm<br class="">
Meeting point: Foyer of Convention Center, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum<br class="">
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On the occasion of the interdisciplinary conference "The Spatial
Turn and its Implications on (In)formal Learning Contexts," six
international artists have been invited to develop artistic
interventions on the iconic brutalist campus of Ruhr-Universität
Bochum. Built on an open, rural field site in the 1960s, the
founding members of the university wished to compensate for the
decline of the industrial region of the Ruhr valley with—what
was called—a “harbour in the sea of knowledge.” Advanced
concepts of how to organize an architectural megastructure, a
progressive understanding of material use, and the integration
of landscape elements shape this literally striking example of
post-war architecture. <br class="">
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With each intervention, the participating artists aim to connect
their works to this significant specific site, with its
historical, institutional, and social momentousness. In marking
the large window front of the library, Jochen Schmith focuses on
the location’s heritage buildings while Mirjam Thomann deals
with a non-functional, ornamental part of the architecture in a
poster series spread throughout the campus. Graphic works by
Julia Horstmann are based on an analysis of the daily movements
that take place on campus, while in a performative lecture,
Karina Nimmerfall addresses the concept of the spatial turn as
artistic method, by attempting a reverse-view back towards a
once-utopian modernist past. With the use of current digital
technologies, Andreas Bunte’s appropriations of pre-digital
visualization of space inhabit the study area of the students,
while Bojan Šarčević participates with an intervention in an
undisclosed location of the campus. Following the conference, a
documentation of all projects will be published.<br class="">
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Organized by Karina Nimmerfall and Mirjam Thomann as part of the
conference "The Spatial Turn and its Implications on (In)formal
Learning Contexts," and hosted by Sandra Aßmann.<br class="">
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Construction site, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1969 <br class="">
© Stadt Bochum Bildarchiv, Sammlung Beifuß<br class="">
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum<br class="">
Soziale Räume und Orte des non-formalen und informellen Lernens<br
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Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft<br class="">
Universitätsstraße 150<br class="">
44801 Bochum<br class="">
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Labor für Kunst und Forschung<br class="">
Universität zu Köln<br class="">
Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie <br class="">
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