Endless BauhausIn their video installation Endless Bauhaus (2009), Ilka & Andreas Ruby interviewed eleven contemporary personalities on the relevance of the Bauhaus today. Has the Bauhaus already become a historical entity of the past or does it still have a contemporary presence? Which of its original intentions and ambitions have survived and can be tied in with the present? Which of its ideas seem unrealizable today? Is there anything genuinely owed to the Bauhaus? Has its general claim and aspiration for a unity of the creative forces in the arts and crafts, science and technology become anachronistic today â or do we need such goals more than ever in view of increasingly diversified and specialized societies? In order to find answers to these questions, Ilka & Andreas Ruby met with personalities of various design fields which have points of contact with the Bauhaus â architects, artists, curators, communication designer, automobile designer, art historian, and entrepreneur. The responses of the conversation partners are thematically correlated and mounted in a virtual conversation.
