Hafenspaziergang: Guilty Pleasure, Mineral Treasure

In the organizer's words:

Guilty Pleasure, Mineral Treasure
Open for the harbor walk between 2 and 7 pm.

The environment is in a constant state of change; human activity is a constant driver of this change and is deeply inscribed in the landscape. Many regions of the world have been shaped by the extraction of raw materials and industrialization, and extraction has written the history of the past century in the Ruhr region. 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. Our own relationship to consumption and its effects is thus further abstracted from its origins. 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 a constantly growing sense of powerlessness is emerging.

As a reaction to the alienation from our environment and all life, which is more than human, the artists in the exhibition design practices and mind games and also 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 the 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

Press tour / Curator: inside tour
Friday, August 16, at 5:30 pm with the curators and artists present. An individual appointment is possible by arrangement, mail to: press@kh-do.de

Opening
Friday, August 16, at 7 pm

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

24th DEW21 Museum Night
Saturday, September 21, 4 - 10 p.m. open
7 pm: Guided tour by the curator
8 pm: Concert / Performance: WIFI Gold (Live)
The Dortmund musician WIFI Gold will play a live set following 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

Free admission.

Kindly supported by
Dortmund Cultural Office

Price information:

Free admission.