Minus20degree is a contemporary art and architecture exhibition and is now looking for artists in the field of sound art, videoart, performance, theater, installation, or dynamic land art for the 2024 edition. The exhibition takes place every 2 years in Flachau, Austria (during winter) and lasts for 3 days in January. This article provides a little review of the performance Fallende Reifen, as part of the 2022 edition of minus20degrees.

During the 1980s, idealistic modernists believed architecture would redeem the world and be the solution to various socio-economic issues. But in our contemporary era, architects and contractors are increasingly faced with the topics of reuse or reconversion of buildings, essentially because of the deindustrialization trend. When confronted with this abundance of vacant or desolated constructions, we usually either demolish or transform. But the industrial era may only be a parenthesis during which conflicts off-balanced practices and made the process of tabula rasa mainstream, as the increase in edifice transformations and reconversions picks back up on the practice common in the past centuries. In this age of the urban scene, what does it mean for a building to have longevity? To persevere through time? And in which aspects should it be long-lasting?

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All (good) things must come to an end, just like my time at Bnieuws. Here are 108 questions, one for every week I've worked for the magazine. Pick one and ponder.