Being sad is not a hobby2018

Last year, Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr became acquainted with the professor for architectural history and theory Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis in Jamaica. Together, they visited Island Village, a shopping centre with entertainment facilities in the city of Ocho Rios on Jamaica's north coast. It mainly plays host to cruise ship tourists and is housed in buildings that display an idiosyncratic interpretation of traditional Jamaican architecture. Six months later, they all travelled to the Düppel Museum Village in Berlin and the Gross Raaden Archaeological Open Air Museum near Rostock. Both sites present replicas of Slavic villages of the 9th and 10th centuries. These three places make up the basis of Henning Fehr's and Philipp Rühr's project for the Künstlerhaus Bremen, which introduces their new...