Wind Tunnel Bulletin #07: ephemer

<p>The seventh issue starts by beginning and ending things simultaneously: It is the first “guest issue” ever published and the last manifestation of its guest editors: AG Kunst und Wissenschaft, a group of researchers and students working in the arts, sciences and humanities. Approaching both the ephemeral, and the Ereignis, was the topic and practical question of their last workshop. It is insofar a topic that fits the bulletin as a format for publishing materials, which are neither – or not yet – restricted to a specific discipline, nor have been brought to a conclusion. The bulletin assembles what might have been there, but what cannot be fixed in pictures and sealed with words. In that sense, this is not a documentation, but a document that points beyond its own retrospective framing of a workshop, i.e. the questions that emerged within it. They do not only remain open but they also have an opening effect: A visit to the wind tunnel means encountering a thing with which you have no idea what to do. It leaves a hairline crack, self-contingently developing in the surface of your disciplinary everyday. The AG Kunst und Wissenschaft experienced that when they first came to visit in 2014.</p> <p>Besides from cracks in disciplinary concepts, the simultaneity of things that end and begin goes along with: Cracks like sounds that merge into the winds (Melt into Air), cracks in your consciousness produced by the sedating noises of a ventilator when you lose contact with solid ground (<em>Skulptur-Reden</em> / <em>Campari Soda</em>), cracks in temporal expectations (<em>per e phe mera</em>), cracks of black coal on white paper (Extra), cracks in one of your second skins, covering your body only as long as the wind allows it (<em>Update</em>), cracks caused by the feeling of absurdity aroused by an Ereignis (<em>Found and Lost</em>), cracks in contexts (<em>Senkrecht von oben</em>), and especially the cracks in the concept of a wind tunnel itself, a machine supposed to simulate perfectly an actually inexistent phenomenon in nature, like laminar flow (<em>Haschen nach Wind</em> / <em>Interview</em>).</p> <p>So here we are now where things end, and begin.</p> <p><em>Bilingual in German and English.</em></p>