Flight of the...Bauhaus?

7. September, 2010

Last week, the color fest was happening in the Dessau, and this year, the color was green. The first day I got here was the opening day of the fest, and this large installation “landed” in the main square. The combination of the mechanical with plant life is strangely beautiful to me, and it reminds me of Around the World in 80 Days for some reason. It was fun to visit on Saturday evening when H and I went back again with J, her husband, to see it again and to see the other parts of the festival.

There was in opera concert in front of the Anhaltisches Theater and then we followed the semi, on which the Jugend Big Band was playing, over the bridge, past the train station to the Bauhaus. There wasn’t a lot to see along the way as H told me there normally is, and at the Bauhaus, there were also only a few green lights. The main attraction was the installation that the Bauhaus was a part of. There was a countdown clock projected on the ceiling of two rooms that was visible from the outside to tell when the Bauhaus was going to “take off”. When it did, there were several neat visual effects projected on the side of the building and interesting sounds and music to go with it (see video!), but after awhile, it just kept doing the same thing, so we weren’t sure if there was something else we were supposed to be “getting”, and we ended up leaving because it was late and also a little cold. Maybe the newspaper* will explain something more, or maybe it wasn’t meant to be understood in a concrete way, which would be typical Bauhaus. Hmmm...I guess we’ll see.

Deine,

N*

*Nope, there was no explanation given, so it will remain a mystery.