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25/4/2014

Das Detroit-Projekt

Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum

An international city and art festival searching for the future in Bochum with partners from Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Spain, and the USA. A project by Schauspielhaus Bochum and Urbane Künste Ruhr.

"Bochum is Opel and Opel is Bochum!" – this is how the musician Herbert Grönemeyer described his relation to his home town and its motor plant. Today, Bochum faces the shutdown of the Opel works: the end of an era. Not only jobs are at stake – the identity of the whole city is about to change. What is the future of Bochum after Opel?

DAS DETROIT-PROJEKT takes this question as its starting point. The year-long international city and art festival raises questions and seeks answers about the future of the city, work, and art.

In January 2014, DAS DETROIT-PROJEKT opened a freight container in front of Schauspielhaus Bochum as a showcase for artistic interventions. The photo exhibition MEIN BOCHUM – UNSERE ZUKUNFT (my bochum – our future) collects and presents your pictures of Bochum's future on billboards in the public space.

Interventions in public space

On April 26, the photo exhibition opens in Bochum together with DAS DETROIT-PROJEKT Summer-Festival. Until July 5, artistic interventions will be presented all around the city. Artists from Poland, Great Britain, Spain, the USA, and Germany develop site-specific works – from (video) installations, performances, and spontaneous architectures to concerts and readings, always in exchange with the participating people of Bochum.

Together with European colleagues from other Opel cities, Paul Domela (UK), Marta Keil (Poland), and Alberto Nanclares of basurama (Spain), the curators Katja Aßmann, the artistic directors of Urbane Künste Ruhr, Olaf Kröck and Sabine Reich, managing dramaturges, Schauspielhaus Bochum, selected the participating artists and partners, developing an extensive program for all residents of the city and the region.

Featuring the artists and artist collectives: Asalto, A_zofra, basurama, Kristina Buch, Ross Dalziel, Esto no es un solar, Tim Etchells, Hofmann&Lindholm, Michał Januszaniec, Philip Jeck, Christopher Kondek, Christiane Kühl, Robert Kuśmirowski, Ari Benjamin Meyers, modulorbeat, Heather & Ivan Morison, Mirjam Strunk, Ray Vibration, Studio umschichten, Trayectos, and Wojtek Ziemilski.

The works that emerge are very different and widely varied in formal terms. The artists or artist's collectives chose their own path. Thus, each work stands on its own and needs to be seen as an independent artistic contribution to the project. But they take the current job loss as their starting point. Together, they provide a committed inspiration to embolden the city and its residents to actively shape public life and their future.

The works will be on view at over 20 different locations. In the city center, locations include the Town Hall, the new Exzenterhaus, the Main Station, Freies Kunst Territorium (FKT) in Bochum-Stahlhausen, Brunnenplatz as a guest of HUKultur, and many other locations throughout the city. Admission is mostly free of charge.

Thus, Bochum presents itself as a city of culture with courageous people developing a new future for their city.

Press contacts:
Eva Paasche 0234/5877-141 - 0160/97820730 Eva.Paasche@bergbaumuseum.de
Hendrik von Boxberg, Virgilio Pelayo jr. T +49 (0)209 60507 212 F +49 (0)209 60507 399 presse@urbanekuensteruhr.de

Festival Opening
April 26, 2014, 7 - 10 pm, at Deutsches Bergbau-Museum (Am Bergbaumuseum 28, 44791 Bochum)
DAS DETROIT-PROJEKT invites to a Motown Barbecue at the opening of the Summer Festival presenting the start of the photo exhibition MEIN BOCHUM – UNSERE ZUKUNFT and the installation by Tim Etchells.

Deutsches Bergbau-Museum
Bergbaumuseum 28, 44791 Bochum
opened daily from 10 am to 6 pm and before productions at Schauspielhauses Bochum

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