[intermedia-info] Thick Space @ The Spatial Turn and its Implications on (In)formal Learning Contexts -- Ruhr-Universität Buchum

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*THICK SPACE*


ANDREAS BUNTE
JULIA HORSTMANN
KARINA NIMMERFALL
BOJAN ŠARČEVIĆ
JOCHEN SCHMITH
MIRJAM THOMANN


March 8–9, 2018

Public tour: Friday, March 9, 12:30 pm
Meeting point: Foyer of Convention Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum


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.

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.

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.



Construction site, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1969
© Stadt Bochum Bildarchiv, Sammlung Beifuß



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Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum
http://informal-learning18.de

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Universität zu Köln
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