The STWST as a place of imagination and resistance—we imagine the building as a ship, mooring it to the square. A razzle-dazzle disorientation pattern on the building extends the façade as an artistic display. Parts of the wrecked ship Eleonore lie in front of the STWST on the square—as an explosion installation.
48 hours of various comments.
A point of light crawls through the house as a creature seeking its manifestation—as a creeping light it pervades parts of the house and proclaims on text panels: the ship and the non-ship, a NOT ON PLANET EARTH and a revolt of imagination.
With this abstraction, the STWST focusses on its theory and research tracks. Stadtwerkstatt asserts nothing less than a transformational Gesamtkunstwerk that awakens as an entity and develops consciousness. As an idea of itself and equipped with its own consciousness, this Gesamtkunstwerk constantly creates new ideas of itself in order to change its form and remain unfinished. Today a ship, tomorrow a planet of sleep. Even the idea of such a Gesamtkunstwerk may be crazy in view of technological developments and an imminent major paradigm shift: absoluteness, imagination and contradiction are still the relevant materials with which we should work.
NOPE factor: The whole is the art. Gesamtkunstwerk not finished.