Walking on water
The art project Walking over water (spelling ABOVE WASSER GOING) accompanies the renaturation of the Seseke and its tributaries in the year 2010 as the cultural capital of the Ruhr area. Twelve internationally known artists each initiate a project on or in the river. These are temporary and permanent installations, in some cases it is possible to participate in the artistic process. The official exhibition period ran from June 13th to September 26th, 2010.
The Seseke is a tributary of the Lippe in the greater Dortmund and district of Unna. Since 2009, the Lippeverband has been dismantling it from a sewer to a near-natural river. For a few years now, the wastewater has been routed separately through underground channels to the sewage treatment works , where it is cleaned and pumped into the tributaries of the Körnebach and Rexebach . For the demolition, the concrete slabs will be removed from the river bed, the banks will be flattened and a curved course will be modeled. This transformation process is accompanied by the art project Walking on Water . The Seseke is becoming more aware of the population, who is actively involved through the opportunities to participate in individual sub-projects and passively through sightseeing (guided tours, new bike path). It is thus a sister project of Emscherkunst.2010 .
The cities of Lünen , Bergkamen , Kamen , Bönen , Unna , Dortmund and the district of Unna are involved in the project . The Lippeverband started the project and will maintain the permanent works of art for the duration of the project. The Ruhr.2010 and the Ministry of Environmental Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia promote the project.
The project author and curator is Billie Erlenkamp . She has invited artists from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and Slovenia. Landscape art, multimedia installations, partly accessible or otherwise usable sculptures and interactive art projects are used. What they all have in common is the reference to the large-scale renovation work in the river landscape and the aim of making this tangible and, in some cases, even designable for residents and visitors. Sections of the river were deliberately chosen as locations for the art objects, which show different development stages of the transformation.
The neighboring towns, project partners and the Lippeverband will continue to artistically develop the project Über Wasser Gehen in 2012 together with the responsible curator Billie Erlenkamp.
Art places and artists
Permaculture Seseke
The Dutch artist Jeroen Doorenweerd includes the citizens in his interactive work of art located in Lünen at the mouth of the Seseke. Together with permaculture experts, they design a garden made of stones, plants, meeting points. A wooden extension was built on a building belonging to the Lippe Association as a meeting place, and the confluence with the Lippe was made accessible. The artist's aim is for people to reappropriate the newly gained space by the water; the result of the artistic process is deliberately kept open.
Building of the Lippeverband with timber extension and rock garden
Open timber extension with seat stones
Planning sketches on the back wall
Lower part near the mouth
Hogarth's Dream
The two-part installation by Diemut Schilling on the Seseke dike in Lünen not far from the Datteln-Hamm Canal refers to the English painter William Hogarth . It repeats the curved river meander described in the 18th century as the ideal line in both objects. On the dike there is a wooden sculpture that can also be used to sit. A steel sculpture is fixed in the river, which can sometimes be seen more or less due to the water level.
Steel sculpture in the Seseke
Right the sculpture on the dike
Landscape in the river
Between Nieder- and Oberaden, near the mouth of the Kuhbach, Thomas Stricker stages an artificially created island in the Seseke as a sculptural setting. He thereby emphasizes the newly gained width in the river bed. The exceptionality is enhanced by the chosen plantings, bald cypresses combined with horsetail , which are rarely found in this environment.
Line of Beauty - the fifth sewage treatment plant
In her work of art, Susanne Lorenz also refers to William Hogarth's ideal line (hence Line of Beauty ). At the same time, she also cites the course of the Seseke, which was still naturally meandering before 1920 , by recreating part of the course of the river with vertically positioned wood. In this separated canal, aquatic plants should also purify the river water (hence the fifth sewage treatment plant ). The curved shape repeats itself as curves in the bike path next to the river and thus draws the visitors' attention. The artificiality of a canal run in the renatured river refers to the engineering art and technology used there. The work of art was developed in cooperation with the biologist Stephan Pflugmacher.
The separated channel in the river bed
Information board of the Lippeverband
Unfinished bike path
The cycle path and planting of the separated canal are not yet completed (as of September 2010).
NOW and the flow
In Kamen at the mouth of the Braunebach, which was renatured again in 1986, Christian Hasucha's work of art NOW and the river are being built from stone gabions . It depicts the word “now” in capital letters as gaps and thus artificially marks a certain point in time. The contradiction of stable material and sculpture to the presented statement is intended to stimulate the visitors to philosophical reflections.
Construction status July 2010
NOW and the River, 2011
Bike path around the artwork and the mouth of the Braunebach
View from Hilsingstrasse
Pixel tube
A pipe about three meters in size, clad with five-centimeter facets, was installed by the two artists Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt at the grain mouth in Kamen. It relates to the underground sewer that ends in the neighboring Kamen-Körnebach sewage treatment plant. With the gridded, reflective steel skin, the surrounding landscape is reproduced to the viewer similar to a roughly pixelated photo.
Access with information column
Walk to the pixel tube
View of the grain estuary
Self-portrait in the reflective outer shell
Reflection of sky and landscape
One of the information stations for the project Walking over water is located on the approach to the work of art .
Transport B 233
The B 233 is run as an elevated road in Kamen , underneath it, sprayers have immortalized themselves on the concrete. A swing system on the Stiller Weg next to the Sesekeufer is intended to raise awareness of this non-location and to show the residents there are design options. The floor, which is printed with traffic signs, indicates the traffic artery above, while the swings, which shine from the inside, invite you to linger and look at the surroundings. The temporary installation comes from the two artists Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt.
Installation under the elevated road
Rock
ground
View from the other bank
The opening ceremony of Walking Over Water took place on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at this art location .
This temporary work of art was seen in 2010.
reserve
Markus Ambach puts a small section of the canalized Seseke under protection in Kamen an der Dernerstraße and puts it in a reserve. About 15 meters to the west and east of the car and pedestrian bridges remain in the condition that made sense as a protective water channel, with a straight course, concrete slabs, steep bank, the associated fauna and flora and patinated concrete. Right next to it, the process of change to renaturalize the Seseke is taking place, excavators are tearing out the concrete slabs and redesigning the landscape. From the bridges in a kind of terrarium, visitors can look at lovingly staged details of the soon-to-be-passed Seseke Canal.
Information signs on the bridges
Transition between the reserve and renaturation
Reserve under the car bridge
Staged details
This temporary work of art was seen in 2010.
Diminishing prospect
At Rexebach in Bönen, Bogomir Ecker has set up five functioning lanterns with five red dummies of surveillance cameras close together. They are directed towards the brook that no path leads along. The apparently senseless arrangement is filmed by a real camera on the bridge and is temporarily transmitted to the Internet. The artist mixes snippets he composed himself into these recordings and thus changes their reality. The stream, which is composed of natural and artificial elements, is reflected in the webcam, which is also mixed.
Typical information sign
The real camera
Lanterns and cameras by the stream
Boat
The boat in the Körnebach in Kamen acts as an exhibition space for the Löbbert class , a group of students from the Münster Art Academy under the direction of Professors Maik and Dirk Löbbert. The work of the individual students is placed here every week, including Michael Pohl, Su-Jin Do, Hae-Ryun Jeong, Nam-Hoon Kim, Stefanie Klingemann, Christian Bögelmann, Alexander Edisherov, Ail Hwang, Sara Dietrich, Marie Heiderich, Laura Schimmel , Ji-Hye Shin and Timo Panzer.
Kahn on August 6, 2010
This temporary work of art was seen in 2010.
Steps to the grain
The Polish artist Danuta Karsten has set up square wooden platforms about one square meter in size as if by chance on the banks of the Körnebach. The platforms are mounted exactly horizontally and can be interpreted as a chair, table or footbridge. They provide a new, leisure-oriented access to the stream, especially for the pupils of the nearby elementary and secondary school and for the cyclists and walkers who pass by. In their entirety they look like a large sculpture, like steps to the grain.
View from the path to the stream
Single object
Properties directly on the stream
View from below towards schools
Sightings of heard silence
The Massener Bach in Unna-Afferde is practically invisible for walkers and cyclists behind a row of poplars and undergrowth. The multimedia artist Tom Groll wants to change this through his installations and bring the stream back into people's perception. Between the poplars, visible and accessible from the path, he has built a sofa, bed and other pillow landscapes out of sandbags. A sound and music installation can be heard from the treetops, and a light installation appears in it in the evening. The art object will remain on site until the end of 2010.
Row of poplars with sofa
One of the pillow landscapes
Loudspeakers in the treetops
Light show in the evening
This temporary work of art was seen in 2010.
