Guilty Pleasure, Mineral Treasure

In the organizer's words:

The environment is in a constant state of change, and human activity is constantly driving this change and leaving its mark on the landscape. Many regions of the world are characterized by the extraction of raw materials and industrialization; extraction is the history of the past century in the Ruhr area.

Now the mines are at a standstill and the exploitation of raw materials continues in places outside Europe in order to ensure supply, consumption and technological progress in the West. Natural resources are becoming scarcer and unfairly distributed, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising, climate change is making regions uninhabitable thanks to ongoing extraction and there is a constantly growing feeling of powerlessness.

As a reaction to the alienation from our environment and all life, the artists in the exhibition design practices and mind games and invite us to become active and approach the world in the Anthropocene from a new perspective. They use VR, video, installation and interactive games. Despite their diverse aesthetics, the installations have one thing in common: they question our current position in the world and our relationship to nature in a playful way.

Artists
Patricia Dominguez
Nieves de la Fuente
Wiebke Meischner
Maria Resende Santos & Graham Livingston
Camilo Sandoval

Curators
Jana Kerima Stolzer & Lex Rütten

Curator:inside tour
Friday, August 16, at 5:30 pm

opening
Friday, August 16, at 7 p.m.

Harbor walk
Saturday, August 31, open from 2 - 7 p.m.

24th DEW21 Museum Night
Saturday, September 21, 4 - 10 p.m. open
7 pm: Guided tour with the curators, Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten
8 pm: Concert / Performance: WIFI Gold (Live)
Dortmund musician WIFI Gold will play a live set after the tour, somewhere between experimental electronic music, quarter-life crisis jazz and 404-error-pages-IDM.

Opening hours
Thu - Sun, 4 - 7 pm
August 17 - October 6, 2024

Kindly supported by
Cultural Office Dortmund

Price information:

Free admission.