EMSCHERKUNST.2010

			Catalogue to the exhibition EMSCHERKUNST.2010 European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 An Island for the Arts Publishing date: August 19, 2010 www.emscherkunst.de
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	EMSCHERKUNST.2010 is the largest art project in public space of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010. 40 internationally renowned artists have created around 20 installations and interventions on the Emscher Island, located between Castrop-Rauxel and Oberhausen. An accompanying catalogue to the exhibition is published on August 19, 2010. The restoration of the Emscher, a canalized river more than eighty kilometers long in the northern Ruhr region, is currently one of the largest renaturation projects in the world. The heart of the project, Emscher Island, stretches out for thirty-four kilometers between the Emscher and the Rhine-Herne-Canal. The island has been incorporated into the EMSCHERKUNST.2010 project, one of the events celebrating the European Capital of Culture. Forty internationally known artists, including Rita McBride, Lawrence Weiner, Mark Dion, Tobias Rehberger and Tadashi Kawamata, have agreed to create works of art for the island based on their rigorous examinations of the region. Their works for public space - the spectrum ranges from "singing rocks" and an ornithology station to a travelling Punch and Judy show - will be on display at unusual sites between Castrop-Rauxel and Oberhausen, for instance, at canal locks, in the canal itself, or on the outer shell of a former digestion tower. After an introduction to the history of the region and contemporary issues, the book takes the reader on a journey across Emscher Island in words and pictures. German, English 216 pages, 211 illustrations, 152 in color Hatje Cantz publishers