Pinar Yoldas
dal 22/1/2014 al 3/3/2014
Segnalato da
22/1/2014
Pinar Yoldas
Ernst Schering Foundation, Berlin
An Ecosystem of Excess. a garbage vortex made up of several million tons of plastic waste in the North Pacific about the size of Central Europe is Yoldas' site of interest and the birthplace for species of excess.
With An Ecosystem of Excess, the Turkish artist Pinar Yoldas creates a post-human ecosystem of speculative organisms and their imagined environment. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a garbage vortex made up of several million tons of plastic waste in the North Pacific about the size of Central Europe is Yoldas’ site of interest and the birthplace for species of excess.
According to the “primordial soup” theory, life on earth began four billion years ago in the oceans, when inorganic matter turned into organic molecules. Today, the oceans have become a plastic soup. Seeing this as a site of exchange between organic and synthetic matter, of fusion between nature and culture, Pinar Yoldas asks what life forms would emerge from the primeval sludge of today’s oceans. Her answer: An Ecosystem of Excess – a new biological taxonomy of the species of excess!
An exhibition in cooperation with transmediale 2014 afterglow
Pre-Festival Programm: 22–29 January
transmediale/festival: 29 January–2 February
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
For more information, please contact:
Isabelle Geisthardt, Public Relations, Ernst Schering Foundation T +49 30 20622960 / geisthardt@scheringstiftung.de
Opening: January 23, 2014, 7 – 9 p.m.
Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34 10117 Berlin
Opening Hours:
Daily (except Tuesdays and Sundays) 12noon - 7 p.m.
Guided Tours
Art for Lunch: every Monday, 1 p.m.
Art in the Evening: every thursday, 6 p.m.
Free admission.