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Whisper Bridge (Flüsterbrücke) at Phoenix Lake

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Whisper Bridge (Flüsterbrücke) at Phoenix Lake

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of Phoenix Lake – Phoenixsee loop from Alt-Schüren

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2. View of Phoenix Lake – Phoenix Lake South Shore loop from Remberg

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3. View of Phoenix Lake – Rombergpark Botanical Garden loop from Dortmund-Barop

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Alex von Bühren

October 3, 2017

Jan Bormann (* 1939): Whisper Bridge, 2011, 2 steel installations made of mild steel P 285 Gh, each ø 3 m, distance: 59 m, 3.3 t, Emscher-Ufer at Phoenixsee Ost, Dortmund-Hörde.
Bright orange shells with a diameter of three meters face each other on the banks of the Emscher at a distance of 59 meters and allow communication even across the river. On the floor, stones mark the ideal position in front of the shells that one must take in order to even whisper messages to the other person on the other side of the river.
Jan Bormann makes use of a physical law of sound transmission, so that the sound of the words spoken into the shell are bundled by the concave shape of the shell and transported via sound waves to the other side of the bank. The artist manages to build a non-visible but audible bridge through his two-part installation and to connect the two banks by communication.
"The Emscher was a forbidden zone for decades [...]. With the renovation, the river becomes an organic part of life again. Conversations from shore to shore across borders are desired. This is the theme of my Whisper Bridge - here you can even talk to strangers across the river. For this I want to invite with the Whisper Bridge. "(Jan Bormann quotes after: emscherplayer.de/media/content/publication/000/035/000035561.pdf)
Jan Bormann was inspired during a visit to a Russian monastery, where quiet conversations were still to be understood at a greater distance due to the high vaulted ceilings themselves. Inspired by the acoustic phenomenon, the first thoughts of a sculptural work were created, with which one can build an invisible bridge over a river. (See ibid.)
The Whisper Bridge on Phoenix Lake in Dortmund not only connects the two banks of the Emscher, but also bridges the industrial past to the present day. In April 2010, the company Afflerbacher Bodenpresserei closed as the last hot-forming steel company in Dortmund on the Phoenix Steel area, and the two steel floors with a diameter of three meters, which the artist uses for his work, come from the last pressing of the company.
Author: Katharina Kemper

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🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

January 4, 2017

Two bright orange, almost hemispherical bowls are opposite each other on the banks of the Emscher. Together they form the "Füsterbrücke" because words that are whispered in the bowl on one side, can be easily understood on the other side in about 60 meters, since physical laws of sound transmission are used optimally here.
Fascinated by the phenomenon that he had first observed in the vaults of a monastery, the artist Jan Bormann developed this imaginary bridge, so-called for the sound transporting trays, or "steel shelves" from the Afflerbacher Bödenpresserei. They are the last steel sheets made here on the former Phoenix steel terrain before the plant was closed in 2010. nrw-skulptur.de/1/?tx_nrwskulpturwerke_showwerke%5Bwerk%5D=335&tx_nrwskulpturwerke_showwerke%5Baction%5D=show&tx_nrwskulpturwerke_showwerke%5Bcontroller%5D=Werk&cHash=08bb5be382387d0c77d9899aa0ecf13f

Ruediger Scholz

May 11, 2018

Try the Whisper Bridge ... is already impressive when the other party whispers in the other orange mirror and you can still see him about 30 meters away is great to understand ...

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Whisper Bridge (Flüsterbrücke) at Phoenix Lake

1. View of Phoenix Lake – Phoenixsee loop from Alt-Schüren

2. View of Phoenix Lake – Phoenix Lake South Shore loop from Remberg

3. View of Phoenix Lake – Rombergpark Botanical Garden loop from Dortmund-Barop

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