Barac

In the location's words:

barac is a temporary artist's studio, workshop, manufactory, earth laboratory, color laboratory, kitchen laboratory, inclusion and living space

barac is art

barac is the interweaving of art and action, is practice and theory, is passing on and linking, dissent and discussion - open, curious and lively, interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan, pragmatic and utopian

barac is a laboratory

barac is an experiment, is constant refinement, a continuous process, the ongoing questioning of ideas, forms, things and materials that makes thinking and acting possible

barac is space

barac is a place of community, bundling and lightness; a place of social competence and relevance, a source of inspiration for the metropolitan region and a place of design

barac is collaboration

barac is a place on the edge of the forest, in the middle of a drawing board district, where people work, talk, argue, think, cook, harvest, plan and laugh - a social utopia, a process with an uncertain outcome

barac is social

barac sees itself in the spirit of Black Mountain College, as a place where established genre, discipline and art boundaries are transcended and the fixation on results, outcomes and works is overcome: "work in progress" as comprehensive work on HOW