A Forgettable Tour
2024
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
End Expo, The Association for the Palliative Turn
I gave two guided tours at Bauhaus Museum Dessau during the International Museum Day weekend. I introduced the visitors to the museum and its permanent collection. The tour is part of the End Expo by The Association for the Palliative Turn.
Photos above: Simon Blanck
Photos above: Louise Ashcroft
Photos above: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Thomas Meyer, 2024 / Ostkreuz
Text about the tour that's supposed to be forgotten:
In “A Forgettable Tour”, tour guide Wendy Lin showed up in a yellow helmet and safety vest with a badge of her certification and gave stickers to the visitors reading “YOUR RELIABLE CHOICE”. Visitors gathered under the black box of the museum and acquainted themselves with the history of the museum and their similarity to the dinosaurs that once lived on this very land, for which they later found evidence in the museum. After figuring out the east-facing direction of the door to the black box, visitors followed the energy flow in the museum and had a choice to kiss the door and express their gratitude as they felt the heaviness of the black door in their hands, as well as the heaviness of the museum. Visitors learned from the collection about how to distinguish between BAUHAUS and bauhaus, how to sit on air, and how to measure heads. As they walked along the orange shelves, they discovered the white morse code on the floor and decoded the museum’s very sensitive security alarms by uttering the following spell with a pure heart - W9WOEEETTETSO. Later, visitors made their wishes to the future at the first portable church designed for outer space, which could be assembled like an IKEA furniture set. It is highly possible that this church is dedicated to the omnipresent chair god. Visitors also found the passage to the underworld by pulling the handles on a silver bauhaus light and twisting the three-part clay jar with a dinosaur totem on it. Just as the visitors were asked to sit on one of the 105 chairs in the black box and forget about everything they experienced in the tour, the door alarm on the second floor went off and thus ended the otherwise forgettable experience.
In “A Forgettable Tour”, tour guide Wendy Lin showed up in a yellow helmet and safety vest with a badge of her certification and gave stickers to the visitors reading “YOUR RELIABLE CHOICE”. Visitors gathered under the black box of the museum and acquainted themselves with the history of the museum and their similarity to the dinosaurs that once lived on this very land, for which they later found evidence in the museum. After figuring out the east-facing direction of the door to the black box, visitors followed the energy flow in the museum and had a choice to kiss the door and express their gratitude as they felt the heaviness of the black door in their hands, as well as the heaviness of the museum. Visitors learned from the collection about how to distinguish between BAUHAUS and bauhaus, how to sit on air, and how to measure heads. As they walked along the orange shelves, they discovered the white morse code on the floor and decoded the museum’s very sensitive security alarms by uttering the following spell with a pure heart - W9WOEEETTETSO. Later, visitors made their wishes to the future at the first portable church designed for outer space, which could be assembled like an IKEA furniture set. It is highly possible that this church is dedicated to the omnipresent chair god. Visitors also found the passage to the underworld by pulling the handles on a silver bauhaus light and twisting the three-part clay jar with a dinosaur totem on it. Just as the visitors were asked to sit on one of the 105 chairs in the black box and forget about everything they experienced in the tour, the door alarm on the second floor went off and thus ended the otherwise forgettable experience.