Catrin Bolt
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Community Centre in Hochleithen
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Catrin Bolt won the competition for the artistic design at the community centre with a bold idea for a project that was not realised however. An outdoor object that projected slightly above the building was to have been created from the office fittings. The process was eventually to have been reversed, and documented in a volume of photographs in the community centre.
The (im)possibility of a community centre.
There was to be an overall artistic design for the Hochleithen community centre. This meant a change to both the interior and the outdoor space: pinboard magnetic dots form an abstract mosaic. Telephones are installed, chandeliers; black BMWs draw past the windows. The community centre forms a complex of buildings that ends in a Kafkaesque office situation where pinboard magnetic dots form a mosaic and industrial foam and small dark insects gain the upper hand. The office fittings then in flight, thrown out of four, or eight, windows and cleverly combined outside to make a fountain that rises above the building. A Russian situation becomes a space-filling art installation; afterwards the individual elements are combined outside to make a fountain slightly taller than the building. 50 monitors on which a fly's flight from the documentary series Universum is to be seen, colourful carpets, tents filled with haberdashery...
...These adaptations are all entirely reversed once they have been made – what remains is a continuous album of photographs, both documentation and fiction at the same time, telling stories about the building. Endless variations of the same things and endless contrasts motivate the view to see what is shown as something open, not finalised.
(Catrin Bolt)
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