Happy Plurality is a series of speculations about the everyday object of the bollard. What if they didn't just stand around inertly and dully, but on the contrary were invitations to action? Raumlabor shows excerpts from this speculative work as drawings on the wall and in the room. One of the bollard imaginations was realized as a bronze and made usable.
The public in “public space” is a potential that must first be realized through collective action. It is not a quality that exists per se in these spaces outside.
Happy Plurality can be seen as an invitation not to accept the spaces and things as they are, but to develop imaginations that go further, that turn spaces into spaces for action, that turn empty spaces into social spaces. In the process, the bronze sculpture becomes an object that projects collective action into the space.
The choice of material establishes a link to an understanding of public art that was primarily characterized by drop sculptures, a form of outdoor museum art.
more information: https://raumlabor.net/
The public in “public space” is a potential that must first be realized through collective action. It is not a quality that exists per se in these spaces outside.
Happy Plurality can be seen as an invitation not to accept the spaces and things as they are, but to develop imaginations that go further, that turn spaces into spaces for action, that turn empty spaces into social spaces. In the process, the bronze sculpture becomes an object that projects collective action into the space.
The choice of material establishes a link to an understanding of public art that was primarily characterized by drop sculptures, a form of outdoor museum art.
more information: https://raumlabor.net/