Ruhrtriennale, 2016.

well,come osa_office for subversive architecture

With well,come Urbane Künste Ruhr produces an artistic intervention by osa_office for subversive architecture for the Ruhrtriennale.

osa, an open collective of practitioners is active in the area between architecture and fine art. It is concerned with spatial experimentation and subverting common views on how we shape and design space as well as how we interact with it - on this occasion on the site of SAZ's steel processing and distribution plant in the harbour of Dortmund.

In well,come an accessible sculpture is slotting seamlessly into the process of loading the goods by using the existing crane taking the visitors on a journey to an unknown space.

Here the world of streams and connections such as goods, data and people will be brought to the visitor through the means of projections together with a sound installation developed by Sound Artist and Musician Florian Kaplick.

The sculpture acts as a platform which is as open for encounters as the transhipment itself. What is now processed are sensory impressions of a different kind.

The installation is an expression of the movements of goods and people on multiple levels. Presented through the media, it can be located in a place where streams of goods and migrants have been present ever since, immemorial - at the harbour - a "non-place" which as a provisional and future home always refers to what has been left behind.