In our fourth Wandersalon we invited together with the Hartware MedienKunstVerein artist Peggy Buth to the Dortmunder U: The berlin artist spoke there about her work and her exhibition Vom Nutzen der Angst - The Politics of Selection, which we realized together as a contribution to this year's Ruhrtriennale. At the same time, Peggy Buth's work Demolition Flats was shown at HMKV as “Video of the Month”. In it, Peggy Buth uses international examples to impressively show how the demolition of large social housing buildings abruptly tears gaps in an urban landscape and fundamentally changes the overall picture. The video work questions the social fabric of a city and a changing understanding of urban planning.
For her works, which are created in various media such as photography, video and assemblage, Peggy Buth conducts long and intensive research on site. In doing so, the artist often reveals a complex mix of a place's social structures, economic strategies, and political decisions. In her video work Leute wie wir (People like us, 2017), for example, she examines historical contexts and interconnections that are essentially rooted in the corporate culture of Friedrich Krupp AG and that have shaped social conditions in the Ruhr region in a wide variety of forms – from the private to the urban room.
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The Wandersalon took place on June 6, 2018 at the cinema at Dortmunder U.
