Idea of the Prora Workshop
"The Prora Media Art Center" is a workshop space for media art students from the Berlin Art Academy (Universität der Künste Berlin), with a speciality within the media of video.
The Prora Workshop is planned as a part of their bachelor/Master education, finding place at the first semester of the Master/Bachelor year.
Here they have the opportunity to explore the possibilities within Media art itself, to stand out and show face, and corporate with other professions and possible collaborators.
The students have the possibility to immerse into their own working method, but do also learn to corporate with their fellow students.
The place offers not only private workspace, work labs for common use, dark test rooms, auditoriums and seminar rooms, but the specific location offers a unique opportunity to unfold the media art in different contexts ( public beach, woods,
The Prora building/area spans over 4,5 kilometers where other businesses occupies other parts, which opens up to collaborations not easy to find other places.
Together with the existing structures properties, I want to use the context of the site.
The context is focused on the qualities the different materialities of the context have, but also the potential audience/spectators and maybe even the inhabitants in other parts of Prora.
The flow of the public in relation to the inhabitants (transition from public to private) is something that fascinates me.
The position of Rügen gives a great deal of dark hours through the year, which I will take advantage of. The best property for light projections is darkness, which gives the opportunity to use the surroundings as a part of the workspace. The daylight differ through the year, which opens up for dividing the cycle of the year in different events and happenings. In that way the happenings fits the condition of the specific time of year, and the potential happenings is shown from its best side.
