Liz Bachhuber Knihy

Border City – Chapter 2 continues the international, interfaculty and interdisciplinary research expedition to the Mexican-American border with students studying civil engineering, fine arts and urbanism in 2016. Back in Mexico, it is about identifying, documenting and demonstrating changes in life circumstances and structural problems. This time the focus lays on the self-organized bottom-up initiatives in Tijuana. More recently than ever, the border between San Diego and Tijuana shows the international foreclosure tendencies and concomitant conflict potential as an example for the whole world. The project group again investigated cross-disciplinary and holistic solutions, in the spirit of the Bauhaus concept. With contributions from: Prof. Liz Bachhuber, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Kraft, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Londong, Prof. Teddy Cruz, Prof. Fonna Forman, Vera Henzel, Kate Clark, Max Mayer, Ella Lucie Brandner, Tonia Schmitz, Miguel Buenrostro, Adriana Trujillo, José Inerzia, Svea Hans, Aaron Gutierrez Cortes, Florian Wehking, Margarita Certeza Garcia, Michael Bickendorff, Melissa Holstein, Edith Kollath, Wiebke Behrends, Alexandra Camara, Marcos Ramirez ERRE, Lisa Glauer, Sara Velas, Ricardo Dominguez, Yann Colonna, Mareike Hornoff, Yoav Admoni

Liz Bachhuber's Nesting Places is concerned with the dichotomy between inclusion and exclusion, turning towards or turning away. Weaving chairs into oversized nests, she makes reference to the media determined dispositive of seating arrangements. Media create units and establish correalations, thereby structuring meaning. In Liz Bachhuber's work, the ephemeral appears to be an invitation to linger at places which ae normally transitional, at anonymous places devoid of identifying characteristics and history.

Transit, The Japanese Journey ist die Dokumentation des internationalen und interdisziplinären Austausches zwischen der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und der Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design in Japan, der durch Ausstellungen und (Gegen)Besuche in den Jahren 2014 und 2015 in Weimar, Nagoya und Yokohama stattfand. Im Zentrum dieser Publikation stehen die künstlerischen Werke der Studierenden und die Erfahrungen, die sie während des Austausches im jeweiligen Gastland gemacht haben. Von den künstlerischen Werken mit direkten Bezügen zur Politik und Kultur in Japan bzw. Deutschland, stehen auch die erfrischenden kulturellen Unterschiede, Perspektiven und Gemeinsamkeiten im Fokus, die in eindrücklichen Erlebnisberichten wiedergegeben werden.