Opel ohne Ende
Turning empty city garage into social hub with food and drinks. Ruhr region auto industry decline redirects assembly workers’ expertise toward creative reuse. A single vehicle becomes an infinite library, through systematic deconstruction an Opel Corsa was dismantled by former automotive specialists, applying their knowledge to new functions. Pallet shelving displays extracted components: headlights, dashboard elements, door mechanisms, structural metals, electronics. Mobile housing framework guides transformation, kitchens, beds, furniture emerge from automotive parts. “Club der toten Teile” establishes social meeting point where auto experts develop objects that explode automotive boundaries. Car sheds skin while remaining mobile during harvest process. Workshop demonstrates functional estrangement within familiar system – workers and materials both mutate into different beings through refunctionalization.
