We performed the third version of our What if everything we know is wrong? series, under the soft early evening sunlight, within one of the large empty rooms in PACT Zollverein; an old cultural centre housed within the former shower facilities of the largest colliery in the Ruhr, part of the vast Zollverien colliery and coking plant complex – closed in the late 1980’s, and now listed as a UNESCO world cultural heritage site. This time we re-titled the event:
HOUSTON, WE’VE HAD A PROBLEM
A quote from the American astronaut James Lovell. And after building what we had hoped to meet here, again using only those few fragments and tools that we had chosen to carry in to the room with us, we left everyone following the crackling audio from a contemporary documentary record of the almost fatal Apollo 13 space flight of 1970.
Photos by Mike Brookes