Ausstellungsreihe aut.raumproduktion über das gesamte Jahr 2010 im aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck.

21. Januar - 18. Dezember, 2010, Innsbruck

Ausstellungsreihe: aut. raumproduktion

Kurator und künstlerischer Leiter: Matthias Böttger, Konzept: Matthias Böttger + Friedrich von Borries

Architektur ist Raumproduktion. Mauern ziehen. Volumen definiert. Raum durch Grenzen, durch Hüllen bestimmen. Raum ist aber nicht nur ein Container, Raum wird auch durch Handlungen und soziale Interaktion bestimmt. Dieser, fortwährend neu produzierte soziale Raum kann für ArchitektInnen ein ebenso wichtiges Handlungsfeld sein. Er ist abhängig von politischen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen - keine statische Produktion, sondern eine fortwährende, flexible: ausgehandelt von Individuen, Gruppen, Kulturen und Gesellschaften.

Raumproduktion wird von zahlreichen Akteuren und ihren Handlungen bestimmt. Im aut zeigt raumtaktik im Jahr 2010 verschiedene Positionen von ArchitektInnen, KünstlerInnen und AktivistInnen, die sich mit diesen Handlungsweisen auseinandersetzen und so wieder ein Handeln ermöglichen. Gesammelte Verben bilden das verbindende Rückgrat der Ausstellung und bekommen mit dem Wechsel einzelner Räume neue Bedeutungen.

aut.raumproduktion.puffern, Armin Linke: Green Line – UN-Porträts

aut.raumproduktion.überleben, Martin Mlecko: BEAUTIES & beasts

aut.raumproduktion.konstruieren, Collettivo 99: L'Aquila - riconversione oltre la ricostruzione

aut.raumproduktion.verstetigen, Manuel Herz: Flüchtlingslager – Idealstädte in Staub und Schmutz

aut.raumproduktion.identifizieren, bad architects group: Prishtina-Connection

aut.raumproduktion.verteidigen, Michl Schmidt + Peter Wendl: Verteidigung des Normalzustands

aut.raumproduktion.besetzen, Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman: Ungrounding

The global distribution of the towers, which began in 1956 with the inauguration of the Stuttgart Television Tower, traces the political history of the 20th century. The ideological competition between the East and West was followed by rivalry between global cities as to which could be most attractive to tourists and corporations. The first television towers were mainly built in Europe and are currently almost exclusively built in emerging countries in Asia and the Middle East.

The exhibition will showcase 25 realized or planned television towers in Ashgabat, Auckland, Barcelona, Baghdad, Belgrade, Berlin, Brasilia, Guangzhou, Jakarta, Yekaterinburg, Johannesburg, Cairo, Las Vegas, Liberec, Moscow, Prague, Riga, Shanghai, Stuttgart, Tashkent, Tehran, Tokyo (2), Toronto and Vilnius. There have never been so many TV towers in one exhibition before.

Unlike in many architecture exhibitions, visitors to the DAM will not find any architectural models, renderings or engineering plans, but rather a collection of objects from everyday culture: stamps and postcards, cocktail mixers and cheese skewers, bedside lamps and schnapps bottles, pens, snow globes, puzzles and candles. The DAM will become a souvenir shop documenting the variety of individual ways (state) architecture is adopted.

www.updatinggermany.de

The exhibition of the DMY Youngsters introduces the up-and-coming generation of national and international designers. Featuring projects, prototypes and close-to-production products, the event presents the freshest design trends, innovations and experiments on a 7.000 m² exhibition space at the Arena Berlin. It is intended for group and solo exhibitions of beginners, students and young design studios, companies or agencies, as well as institutions, design schools and associations.

Paradise Lounge

With “Paradise Lounge“ raumtaktik brings a selection of “Updating Germany“ to Berlin. This exhibition was initially conceived by Friedrich von Borries und Matthias Böttger as the German contribution for the Architecture Biennale 2008 in Venice. The lounge mixes Ton Mattons installation “Technical Paradise”, “ReDesign” furniture by Oliver Schübbe and Laleh Torabi’s illustrations for the book “Bessere Zukunft?”.

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Fotos © Uwe Dettmar

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During the World Cup, the exhibition travelled in a converted cargo container to tournament locations throughout Germany, and in 2008, the exhibition went on display at the Austrian Museum for Industrial Democracy. A catalogue and card game (Schwarzer Peter der Globalisierung, or, in English, Old Maid of Globalisation) were created to accompany the exhibition. 

In recent years, Berlin has seen a proliferation of street bars; both entrepreneurs and city politicians seem to have discovered that a riverbank waste land in the German capital often needs no more than a bar made of bamboo wood, a few deck chairs and several tons of sand to be transformed into a dynamic venue. For the Oststrand beach bar near the city’s East Side Gallery, raumtaktik and dramatic advisor/theatre director Max Schumacher decided to bring back the old primary school game of dodgeball by organizing a true “peoples’ game” – a dodgeball contest for all Berlin citizens. In the four years since its inception, the tournament has become a highly-anticipated urban event for which Oststrand is now well-known and well-loved.

For a single day, the 4,000 square metres of a former cigarette factory in the Pankow neighbourhood of Berlin were fashioned into the venue for a theatre festival: on the occasion of the 11th birthday of the Dock11 dance theatre, 11 choreographies and 11 video works were presented. The venue bar was constructed of europallets connected by cables and illuminated by colourful fluorescent lamps. All “building units” could be easily dismantled the next day and put aside for future re-use.

Staßfurt was once home to the largest TV manufacturer in the GDR, but today, it is a city without a centre. As a result of potash mining, a 200-hectare expanse that ran diagonally through Staßfurt’s Old Town sank seven meters into the ground: Town Hall, church and historic buildings all had to be demolished. Together with the media artists of Berlin’s visomat inc., raumtaktik developed the TV Staßfurt installation, which captures television images from the city’s scattered “sites of activity” and focuses them on the observer. Can a city centre be created or at least simulated through this type of medial consolidation?

Trade show visitors were surprised by the absurd collection of objects and moved to find out more. A simple, clever design thus encouraged visitors into dialogue with the exhibition attendants, which is, after all, the goal of any trade show appearance.