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Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY

  • © Ulf Beck
    (c) Ulf Beck
  • (c) Ruhrtriennale / Matthias Mohr
  • © Ulf Beck
    (c) Ulf Beck
  • © Ulf Beck
    (c) Ulf Beck
  • © Ulf Beck
    (c) Ulf Beck

Our CenturY is an ongoing open air-installation: 17. August - 30. September (whole time).

Our CenturY is part of No Education

A material sampling of palettes, bulky refuse from the city of Bochum, elements taken from stage sets of the Ruhrtriennale productions Le Vin herbé, Moses und Aron, and Westwärts and from private homes, assembled by 200 volunteers 

With the community project Our CenturY, the artist duo Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser transform the area around the Jahrhunderthalle into an urban landscape. The point of departure for this architectural transformation are otherwise unnoticed, disposed of resources such as bulky refuse, elements from stage sets, and palettes, which over the course of the project take on a new life of their own. This temporary entrance to Jahrhunderthalle will be erected with the help of around 200 ­volunteers. 

With their constructions, structures, and sculptures, Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser work on an aesthetic of resistance against a lifeworld with a unidimensional focus on consumption. With their construction projects and participatory objects, they make multiple forms of urban life visible and politically effective. 

Our CenturY tries to re-pole the landscape and the socially definitive Y shape of this fork in the Autobahn into an open structure for a space of possibility and narrative that invites us to spontaneous encounters and ­unexpected conversations. 

Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser's subtle, critical, evocative and complex constructions operate in aesthetic opposition to the one-dimensional character of the built environment we encounter in our daily lives. Their construction projects represent concrete suggestions for more varied forms of urban coexistence and give these a strong political dimension. They embody an alternative to consumer habits - for example, by using materials customarily ignored in architectural contexts. The Jellyfish Theatre, for instance, erected as part of the Oikos Project during the 2010 London Festival of Architecture, was made entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials. Over one hundred volunteers helped to build this spectacular construction in the heart of the British capital. Also in 2010, Köbberling and Kaltwasser constructed a gigantic bulldozer in Vancouver from materials left over from the Winter Olympics. And in 2011 they erected a 140-square-metre roof over the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin that consisted of ten thousand plastic beakers left behind after the local marathon.

Köbberling and Kaltwasser are based in Berlin but work world-wide.

Information and registration: contact Cathrin Rose
Telephone - +49 209 / 60 50 71 47
E-Mail - no.education@ruhrtriennale.de

 

Artistic direction —
Folke Köbberling, Martin Kaltwasser
By and with —
Städtebewohnern der Metropole Ruhr

Shows

Location
— Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
Dates
— 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. August 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. September
Duration
— August, 18th - September, 30th 2012 / whole-time
Opening on August 18, at 5 p.m.
Entrance free
August
  • Fri17Aug
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 17. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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  • Sat18Aug
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 18. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 19. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 20. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 21. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 22. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 23. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 29. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 30. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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    Köbberling/Kaltwasser: Our CenturY on 31. August 2012 at 12.00 AM
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September
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With friendly support of the association of friends and sponsors of the Ruhrtriennale, USB Umweltservice Bochum GmbH and dm-drogeriemarkt.