Science + Fiction
dal 14/12/2002 al 9/3/2003
Segnalato da
14/12/2002
Science + Fiction
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
What is real? What is artificial? What is objective? Science + Fiction is an exhibition that focuses on our image of reality mediated through science, scholarship and art. It poses questions to both artists and researchers and it seeks out those secret byways that connect current research trends with our imagination, desires and hopes.
What is real? What is artificial? What is objective? Science + Fiction is an exhibition that focuses on our image of reality mediated through science, scholarship and art. It poses questions to both artists and researchers and it seeks out those secret byways that connect current research trends with our imagination, desires and hopes.
The Volkswagen Foundation, in association with the Sprengel Museum Hannover, has invited artists and researchers to respond to research topics of public concern: How do we perceive or shape "foreign" and "native" cultural identities in a global environment? How does perception work in our brain? What does manipulation of matter mean at an atomic level? What kind of failures and promises can a scientific culture create?
In this exhibition, science, scholarship and art enter into a fascinating alliance: research findings are translated into an artistic language and works of art are set in a counter-world of scientific facts and research stories. Ideas and images, objects, models, and media envelop focal points of research and explain their cultural premises - thus creating a modern Wunderkammer of knowledge and art.
000 / Framework is an installation leading visitors through the various themes - with a soundtrack of expert comments, objets trouvés from laboratories and historical objects. It also displays filmstars like Master Yoda, rap videos and graffiti or models taken from famous science-fiction films. With art-works by Ingo Günther, Peter Kogler and Ken Lum it also challenges our social and scientific pictorial world.
101 / "Good Morning, Dr. Mad!" is a video installation by M+M about the exhibition's title theme. In a digital, artificial world a dialogue opens up between the realities of the laboratory and the myths of society. The protagonists of the two synchronised projections are a scientist of the mad scientist" genre, sampled from fragments of well-known science-fiction films, and his better, happy creation. M+M have been developing narrative forms that aim to impinge artistically on different forms of reality and code. From 2001 onwards, they have been lecturers at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich.
201 / Expedition-Bus is an Ensemble by Christoph Keller on the theme of cultural globalisation and the perspective of scientific film. A camping bus is the key feature of the contribution on ethnological research and it tells the tale of an expedition into the unknown that reflects its own cultural preconceptions. The Ars Viva prize-winner, Christoph Keller, studied mathematics, physics and hydrology and, as an artist, he focuses particularly on scientific film archives.
301 / Brain Pavillion by Atelier van Lieshout. The artwork quotes the objective scientific view of the brain and confronts it with the subjective worlds of sensation and imagination. The Atelier van Lieshout has been working on the frontiers of design, art and architecture ever since its foundation by Joep van Lieshout in 1995.
401 / Nano-Scape is an interactive installation by the artist couple Sommerer & Mignonneau. The NANO Sculpture is invisible and can be felt only by means of force-feedback technology - changing its shape according to how firmly the visitor grips it. With this approach, the two artists are reacting to the pressure in science to visualise things and, with their surprising lack of pictorial output, they give a new impact to media art. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are Associate Professors at IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan, as well as Visiting Professors at Kyoto University.
501 / Wild Cards by Dellbrügge & de Moll: an oversized card game allows any visitor to make up their own prognoses about future knowledge - with Wild Cards", those unforeseeable events which divert the linear progression of history. This work integrates contributions from ten researchers and ten artists. Dellbrügge & de Moll see themselves as exemplary communicators and work in a way that crosses the boundaries between context and media divisions at the cutting edge of aesthetic and everyday thinking and acting.
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Additional Programme: Panel Discussions at the Sprengel Museum Hannover
Tuesday, January 14th 2003: 7.00 pm
The Enterprise Generation. How do science and science-fiction influence one another?
Tuesday, February 18th 2003: 7.00 pm
Setting limits to science, scholarship and art? A reflection on the respective boundaries and limitations.
From 12th april to 15th june 2003 the exhibition is in karlsruhe - centre of arts and media technology and 2003/2004 in munich, dresden and berlin
Sprengel Museum
Kurt Schwitters Platz, 30169
Hannover