open call – symbiosen
Pina Bausch Zentrum
Wuppertal
workshop
09 September – 20 September 2023
installation
20 September – 04 October 2023
An invitation to young people, artists, architects, makers to participate in the building process!
deadline September 01, 2023
In front of the Schauspielhaus we will build a wooden pavilion made of reclaimed furniture. We are looking for volunteers to help create this installation! Are you available between 09.09.23 and 20.09.23?
No experience needed! Just bring your enthusiasm!
In addition, Berlin-based artist Raul Walch will lead a series of workshops in which donated fabrics will be repurposed into theatrical garments. All dressed up, we will explore the area surrounding the Schauspielhaus from 18.09.23 to 20.09.23.
Together we are going to prepare and mount the cladding of the installation. The volunteers will help cutting, painting and screwing pieces and components, creating wood patterns in order to give the installation a colorful and intriguing appeareance.
With the collectively made costumes we are going to create an urban scenography that interact with the architecture installation and the other textile creatures in order to activate the public space of Pina Bausch Zentrum for the Fragile Festival.
In case of a high number of applications, we will ask to send a cover letter and a portfolio for the selection process.
The results of the selection will be communicated by e-mail.
Created using discarded wooden furniture from the residents of Wuppertal, demolition or abandoned material Symbiosen reflects on the multiple lives material could have. Moving between treasure and trash depending on placement and situation, the items are repurposed to create a temporary space consisting of a partially painted assemblage with a generous skylight. Together with local participants, raumlaborberlin conceives of novel strategies, processes, and tectonics through which material can be given new purposes such as cleaning, sorting, trimming, painting, stacking, weaving, and linking.
This community-built pavilion activates the space around the iconic Schauspielhaus by becoming a space of gathering and experimentation and operating as extensions of the theater’s foyer. This establishes a mutualistic symbiosis where the Schauspielhaus offers its surroundings to the installation of a parasitic architecture and where this object attracts people to the area claiming and reasserting the nature of Pina Bausch Zentrum as a public and performative place. In addition, multiple offshoots of Symbiosen will implant themselves upon the Schauspielhaus forming miniature installations hinting at the upcoming transformation of the building’s site.
During the opening week of Fragile Festival, Berlin-based artist Raul Walch will lead a multi-day workshop during which donated fabrics will be repurposed into garments for a new day. The participants, dressed for the ‘Zwischenzeit’, reflect upon the building and its slowly changing purpose and outlook during this ‘under construction phase’.
Echoing the sentiment and intent of Symbiosen, a performance exploring the area surrounding the Schauspielhaus will take place.
The project Symbiosen is open to the public from 20.09.23 until 01.10.23 and is located in front of the Pina Bausch Zentrum in Wuppertal.
Previous to the project opening, a series of workshops is taking place from 09.09 till 20.09 where participants are invited through an open call to take part in the realisation of the pavilion and the urban scenography for the area.
