Barbara Holub
  • NEWS
  • PROJECTS
    • 2023 >
      • Silent Activism -Re-enchanting the World
    • 2021 >
      • FAVORIT
    • 2020 >
      • NORMAL
    • 2019 >
      • Breaking Quiet
      • Call Against the Border
      • Utopia or Oblivion
      • Platform for Arguments
    • 2018 >
      • One Hundred Desires for H/C
      • Promise for H/C
      • Times of Dilemma
      • The Blue Frog Society
      • Initiative Island
    • 2017 >
      • Shared Values, Ambulant Gardens, and Other Spaces
      • Harbour for Cultures
      • pursuing, advancing
    • 2016 >
      • Design of the Square in Pottenhofen
      • Commons kommen. Ankommen.
      • The Turn
    • 2015 >
      • The Laughter that Gets Caught in Your Throat
      • Je suis arabe
    • 2014 >
      • On the Slim Probability
      • Du bakchich pour Lampedusa
      • 1st World Congress of the Missing Things
      • 2nd World Non-Congress
      • The Dignity of Man
      • Revolution Without Movement
    • 2013 >
      • Botendienst Unplugged
    • At the Urban Periphery
    • The Blue Frog Society
    • More Opportunities
    • Listen to the Quiet Voice
    • untitled (what we did not dare to wish)
    • With veiling hands
    • SET!
    • Image Transfer
    • Devotion to Unintentionality
    • Handled confidentially
    • The system: prêt-à-porter
  • CONTACT
  • TEXTS
    • Silent Activism
    • NORMAL - #2
    • NORMAL - #1
    • Platform for Arguments
    • NORMAL - dérive
    • Call Against the Border
    • TRI/E/S/T/E
    • Andere Urbanitäten
    • Planning Unplanned - Russian
    • New Stakeholders of Urban Change
    • Räume des Ankommens
    • Das Bienvenue - Ein Recht auf Raum für alle
    • Kunstbulletin 9/2016
    • Planning Unplanned
    • Interview by Maia Damianovic
    • The Games are Over
    • Initiative Island
    • Performing Public Art
    • Direct Urbanism
    • archithese
    • Centerpoint Now
    • found, set, appropriated,
  • CURATED
    • WE PARAPOM!
    • Urgent Perspectives #3
    • Urgent Perspectives #1
    • Urgent Perspectives #2
    • KunstRaumGaragen
    • Waste Value Rising
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Barbara Holub. The Games are Over,
in: The Games are open. Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser
Edited by Lorna Brown

Photographs by Hans Sipma and Barbara Cole
Texts by Barbara Holub and Barbara Cole
Designed by Mark Timmings.
Vancouver, 2015

The Games are Open by the Berlin-based artist team of Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser used materials recycled from the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Athletes’ Village to create a sculpture in the form of a larger-than-life bulldozer. Constructed from 1,000 sheets of wheatboard, the artwork gradually transitioned from sculpture to garden, it’s decomposition providing fodder for new growth. The Games are Open publication is designed as a hand-held flipbook, which animates the project’s transformation over a four-year period. The book features over 140 images taken by Vancouver-based photographer Hans Sipma, who passed by the sculpture each day on his bicycle commute to work. Interspersed on facing pages, curator Barbara Cole traces the project’s remarkable series of co-options, interventions and adoptions through an annotated chronology.
Back pages feature a text by Barbara Holub, a Vienna-based artist, educator and writer whose transdisciplinary practice moves between art, urbanism, architecture and theory.

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