THE REALM OF HYPERNOVA
19.01.–24.01.2015
There are a couple of old bunkers in Cologne. Left overs from the second world war. Most of them are rotten, unused and forgotten. We had the chance to transform and rearrange one of them into a new art space. Our Bunker is right in the middle of Cologne, next to a railway station. Back in the days it was built to protect the workers of the station.
Nine weeks before the Interior Design Week Cologne 2015 started, designers from various European cities gathered to explore the bunker. We used this special space as a starting point and a central element for the creation of an exhibition concept and its implementation. There were no rules, no limitations, only a common motivation for the creation of a new space. In a workshop, we discussed the fresh sensations and experiences we had in the bunker. Gradually, the conversations formed a picture of a room, that should not function as an ordinary exhibition. We created conditions, developed forms, alanguage and finally a manifesto was composed –
A manifesto of heterotopia.
Heterotopien Places; real places – places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society – which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites
that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality. (Foucault)
The manifesto offered each of us an individual source of inspiration and functioned as a main principle forming the group, the collective to a unit creating a new place.
19.01.–24.01.2015
There are a couple of old bunkers in Cologne. Left overs from the second world war. Most of them are rotten, unused and forgotten. We had the chance to transform and rearrange one of them into a new art space. Our Bunker is right in the middle of Cologne, next to a railway station. Back in the days it was built to protect the workers of the station.
Nine weeks before the Interior Design Week Cologne 2015 started, designers from various European cities gathered to explore the bunker. We used this special space as a starting point and a central element for the creation of an exhibition concept and its implementation. There were no rules, no limitations, only a common motivation for the creation of a new space. In a workshop, we discussed the fresh sensations and experiences we had in the bunker. Gradually, the conversations formed a picture of a room, that should not function as an ordinary exhibition. We created conditions, developed forms, alanguage and finally a manifesto was composed –
A manifesto of heterotopia.
Heterotopien Places; real places – places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society – which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites
that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality. (Foucault)
The manifesto offered each of us an individual source of inspiration and functioned as a main principle forming the group, the collective to a unit creating a new place.
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