Bang Bang is touring through the urban landscape between Seoul and Anyang since september 2009 by invitation of the 3rd Anyang Public Art Project (APAP2010), Anyang. raumlaborkorea

Raumlabor approached this project with the questions: is reinventing the history of a place a good idea, when the current accepted history isn’t helping the present situation? Is it possible by reinventing a history to create a new perspective for a site which has undergone a century of urban catastrophes?

In St. Pölten, the regional capital city from Lower Austria - not far from Vienna - an expedition is being prepared. Where to? What for? What will we look for and discover? Who will take part? These are questions that raumlaborberlin will discuss with the inhabitants of the city.

The chaise bordelaise is a participative, educative, social sculpture with a private use for the „INSIDERS“exhibition in Arc en Reve / CAPC, Bodeaux.
09.10.2009 - 07.02.2010

an installation by raumlabor in collaborations with students from Bauhaus Universität Weimar in the bauhaus archiv / museum für gestaltung, berlin: a 1:2 replica of the canope of the “Haus der Elektroindustrie”, located on Alexanderplatz 1-5.
Exhibition: 27.08. - 29.08.09

The project “les Archivistes” is the search for parts of a puzzle that make up the history of a modern city. Over one year, residents of Herouville St.Claire participated in workshops with actors, choreographers, artists, writers, and architects, from which emerged fragments of their own imaginary City Archive. Herouville St.Claire is a 1960’s “ville neuf” (new town), planned and built with all the urban resources postwar modernism had to offer. “Le Tabularium” now attempted to put the puzzle together.

Stick on city is a responsive drawing, made to be permanently renewed. It is a 12mx2,5m training ground for utopians. Built and unbuilt iconic architectural designs assembled in an imaginary landscape. Visitors can take a tour, then add their own vision by drawing in and simply sticking it into the city!

The balcony of Salzburger Landestheater becomes an enlargement of the “smoker’s foyer”. Readings, cinema, concerts, dancing or casino can take place in this additional room. The bubble is translucent and very well adapted for projections from inside or outside. The result is a completely new view at night. Local and friendly artists are resposible for performances on the balcony.

raumlabor_berlin is engaged with temporarily transforming locations: a gallery into a laboratory, a public square into a location for scientific discourse or a cold corridor into a place with new social qualities. When spaces are meant not only to be neutral shells for content but also to convey particular functions and serve as catalysts, the way of dealing with these spaces, their design and programming have to be integral components of the overall conception.

The “Fondation Suisse” is the most prominent dormitory of modern times. To mark the 75th anniversary in november 2008 raumlaborberlin was commissioned to find a temporary solution for a recurring problem: the missing space for big festivities. In summer the >piloti< called terrace underneath the building would have been perfect, but in november it was too cold. We proposed to wrap the space with an inflatable, translucent membrane and thereby transform the semi public ambient to semiprivate. For three days the pneumatic hall gave home to concerts, speeches, dinners, a conference and a party.

”We Are Coming!” will present a selection of their many projects divided into the categories ”Relational Fetish Objects”, ”Transformed Urbanity” and ”Urban Narratives”. They also speculate about the hidden futures of the fjord city in an interactive cooking performance and present the newest (and possibly most original) link between Oslo and Berlin; a submarine and a wall-to-wall pool of white water in the gallery.

For the “house of imagination” raumlabor berlin interlaces two architectural ideas of living in Torstrasse 166: A 1:1 modell of a Plattenbau flat type P2 which is living reality in Halle-Neustadt and many cities of the former GDR is built into a Gründerzeit flat. Both models date from a time of mass production of living space, the Gründerzeit as a market driven approach, the P2 flat as a government-controlled approach.

The ctiy mattress is an installation in public space. It is a triangular pneumatic structure, measuring 15 metres on each side. As catalytic object it is a platform for various actions. The over-scaled soft surface questiones our behavioural codes in public space, especially the physical actions of the bodies within the space. The city mattress is an experimental condensator for acting in public.

Construction work is going on at “Wonders of the Prairie”. In the eyes of the public a boat is built from pieces of wood, junk, and offset-metals at the Alte Feuerwache. A sign points out that raumlabor-berlin is building a submarine which will be sent onto a „dangerous“ journey on the Neckar and Rhein to Ludwigshafen on Sept. 20. At its destination it will be handed over to the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen.We are looking for ten courageous persons who navigate the vessel on the difficult journey and for persons who want to participate in the building of the boat.

“Aus Flug Hafen Sicht” takes place from April to June 2008. Directors, choreographers, architects and artists will offer excursions to areas of one of the strangest territories in Central Germany. Wishful economic thinking and melancholy, departure and failure converge here like nowhere else: an empty airport building, which was to supposed to become the motor of development for a whole region, next to a more or less abandoned village between motorway and runway.

If things continue as they are on earth we’ll soon all have to move to the new planet which has been discovered south of the Orion Nebula. How should we live there? What will we need? What language will we speak? What songs will we sing? Over a twoday period, a model of the new planet will be built on the stage of the Kammerspiele including hymns, pamphlets and poetry.

What meaning does the historical centre of a city carry and who has sovereignty over that meaning? Shortly before the demolition of Palast der Republik in Berlin, raumlaborberlin built a huge mountain formation in, on and in front of this controversial building. The mountain showed that even a rough concrete ruin can become home to people, their past and their dreams. Its size, grace and speed, along with the countless installations, performances and record numbers of visitors to it, caused a great storm within the political debate; a storm which unfortunately calmed all too quickly. However, this still remains one of the boldest projects on this list.

One-day activities in public space. The following questions were examined: can wasteland be produced? And what would Vienna’s citizens do with it? The quality inherent in wasteland is that it is open to appropriation, to new interpretation and varieties of city and interaction; it provides room for alternative social developments.

Urban allure or simply madness? The film “U(topie) 18” throws new light onto a thirthy-year-old utopia: the underground line U18 that has connected the cities of Essen and Mülheim since 1977. This model line that runs along the central strip of the A40 has seven stations. Planners, politicians and actors are asked of their intentions in interviews. These reports confront the everyday realities and hopes of today’s residents and users.

The unimune consists of the main programs Conference Center, Museum and University accompanied by the programs of public lobbys and administration to the complex. The unimue is set in the “veterans village”, an urban agglomeration quoting the arabic city in the way it is organised and the roles of public and private spaces are negotiated.