Thursday April 12th, 4:00 pm. Linden 109 (Linden Street Studios at 6–8 Linden Street)
Viewing begins at 3:00 pm on Thursday 4/12 and by request.
Caught between a past no longer viable and a future not certain, Germany's Ruhr (aka Ruhrpott, das Revier) is a landscape full of spatial and temporal disjunctures. For those unfamiliar, the Ruhr was arguably the former industrial heartland of Germany —mostly mining and steel production---reaching its peak production in the mid-20th century before experiencing a slow, steady, but also uneven decline in second tier industry over the past fifty years.
Three Landscapes is a video typtych and media installation piece that addresses questions of temporality and landscape in the wake of the Ruhr's Strukturwandel (processs of strucutral change) through the depiction of three discrete sites; the piece encompasses footage depicting 1) work in the tunnels, with its artificial light, steam, noise and camaraderie, 2) post-work play on a coal mountain spoil heap-- barren, isolated, vast, and beautiful, and 3) a montage of demolition shots depicting the destruction of industry.
