Ten years rewind: Institut für Raumexperimente
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Meeting up with the beginnings
photo by Euan Williams
Five years of experimentation have passed through the minds and bodies of more than 400 people – including non-violent-communication experts, vegan cooks, composers, lawyers, philosophers, social scientists, astrophysicists, architects, poets, parkour and slacklining specialists, choreographers, artists, a deer imitator, a kung-fu master, and a politician. All came to the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments) and made their mark as participants, teachers, friends. They became the Institut für Raumexperimente – ifrex in daily use – by charting out a path of questioning and learning that remained permanently under construction. The institute stayed, by design, a model of education in the making. No conclusive model ever arrived – we never wanted it to. From 2009 to 2014 the Institute was based one storey above my studio in Berlin, but it went its own way. It was a cacophony of voices and encounters – and still is. The activities remain accessible at www.raumexperimente.net, an archival resource that we have made public to allow the accumulated thoughts and actions to move (us and you) into the future.
Olafur Eliasson
Looking back: Five years of the Institut für Raumexperimente. By Olafur Eliasson
Mirror Walk, 06 January 2010
When walking along a street with a mirror in front of your face – you see the journey that you have taken in front of you.
5 years ago the institute came to an official end.
There have been 5 years with the institute and 5 years without.
I am enjoying the symmetry and taking a moment to be reflective.
Those 5 years still reverberate in my head.
Euan Williams
#8: Hans Ulrich Obrist und Olafur Eliasson, 25. Mai 2009
Jennifer A. McMahon interviewt Olafur Eliasson, 19. Mai 2009
#6: Workshops and Experiments – On Models, 18 – 22 May 2009
#5: Peter Weibel – The Negative Space, Part I, 8 May 2009
#4: Peter Coles and Matthew Ritchie in conversation with Caroline A. Jones and Olafur Eliasson, 7 May 2009
#3: Luc Steels and Olafur Eliasson: Robotic Experiments, 22 April 2009
#2: Steen Kørner and Olafur Eliasson: Body Movement, 21 April 2009
