Chris Dähne

Carsten Ruhl

Rixt Hoekstra

This book is a compendium of the essays presented during the 12th International Bauhaus Colloquium 2013. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Henry van de Velde’s birthday, the contributions of the colloquium highlighted the historic meaning of the Gesamtkunstwerk and its significance in more recent discussions. On this basis the publication is conceived as a new interdisciplinary approach to an important aspect of the Bauhaus as well as to a key element of modern architecture and architectural theory in general.

Henry Van de Velde and the Legacy of a Modern Concept

The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art

Jennifer Allora

In their work Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla link different media: sculpture, video, sound and performance. At the Kunstmuseen Krefeld in 2009, the artists showed two video projections. A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear (2008) that focused on the situation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. How To Appear Invisible (2009) thematised the moment in Berlin when the Palast der Republik at the end of 2008 was finally torn down and this architectural monument from the former GDR vanished. In a pictorially forceful way, Allora & Calzadilla take up the controversial discussions on city planning, historical awareness and political responsibility that led to the events in New Orleans and Berlin. This catalogue highlights these places and their history in the form of an impressive pictorial collage, and the accompanying texts introduce the art of Allora & Calzadilla and examine the Berlin Schlossplatz in its capacity as a 'utopian locality'.

Carsten Ruhl

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