raumlabor berlin – jan liesegang / raul walch / antonello prezioso / olof duus

As part of the Festival FRAGILE, raumlaborberlin and Raul Walch are creating symbiotic structures in participatory workshops, that engage with the buildings of the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal and its immediate surroundings. Symbiosen was conceived, designed, sewn and built in a two-week workshop on site with citizens, students and creative people from Wuppertal and the world.

A formerly expensive living room cabinet becomes trash as soon as it is taken apart and put on the street. Every day, people in Wuppertal buy thousands of new garments and carry their old ones to the collection containers. A positive value becomes a negative value: trash? Symbiosen works with this material: old clothes and fabrics, old furniture, wall coverings that have become superfluous, etc. We consider these elements the new raw materials of a Circular Economy. Analogous to symbiotic and parasitic organisms, we develop strategies, processes, and tectonics that can give new life to this material: cleaning, sorting, cutting, re-sewing, dyeing, stacking, weaving, linking, sawing, screwing, etc. Creatures and structures emerge that enter into symbiotic relationships with the partially closed Schauspielhaus and its heterogeneous surroundings.

Many thanks for the support to
AWG Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft Wuppertal, specially to Carsten Melech, Andreas Spiegelhauer and Thomas Diederichs as well as all engaged employes and to Michael Meyer for the friendly provision of the light objects. .

Concept:
Jan Liesegang, Raul Walch, Antonello Prezioso

Many thanks to all participants:
Antonello Prezioso – Italy
Andrea Bogner – German
Carolina Puppe – Brazilian
Diane Esnault – French
Dylan Pero – American
Efa Bezi – Argentinian
Franziska Hartmann – German
Filip Daust – German
Guido Hernández – Argentinian/Italian
Helena Escudero – Spain
Lea Thamm – German
Lennart Wolf – German
Jan Liesegang – German
Jonas Haala – German
Kiki Deliyiannidou – Greek
Marian Willing – German
Marie Schwimm – German
Meret Behnke – German
Mikkel Harboe Wolff – Danish
Leena Beetz – German
Noah Dreyblatt – German
Moritz Pfister – German
Paula Straube – German
Rae Jiang – Chinese
Raul Walch – German
Ronja Ronnelgen – Swedish
Selin Geerinckx – Belgian/Turkish
Simon Röwekamp – German
Torben Strate – German
Wiebke Warncke – German
Ying Zhang – Australian