ART AS A TRANSFORMER: DR. BAUHUS IN CONVERSATION
ART AS A TRANSFORMER: DR. BAUHUS IN CONVERSATION (RESEARCH TRANSFER UNI MÜNSTER)
Why transform places of war and deterrence into places of art and culture?
The conversation with Dr. Wilhelm Bauhus, head of the Research Transfer Office at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster, begins with this opening question. Research Transfer takes care of communication between science and society – and makes places and memories visible that would otherwise be forgotten.
Münsterland is a beautiful place, but also home to evidence of the Second World War and the devastating instruments of National Socialism. There are also a large number of Cold War infrastructures, for example weapons depots, launch pads and former nuclear missile sites.
In transforming these historic sites, which are often all too readily forgotten, into lasting, and often cautionary, memories, the institution enjoys working with artists. Why?
“… the decisive contribution to establishing trust, to arousing curiosity, comes precisely from art.”
