INVOCATION FOR HOPE: A new commission by SUPERFLUX
A MAK exhibition


Exhibition View © Stefan Lux/MAK

A MAK exhibition


In this immersive installation, commissioned by the MAK exclusively for the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2021, Superflux transports visitors into a vision of a post-anthropocentric future no longer determined by humans alone.
 
In cooperation with the forestry office and fire department of Austria's Neunkirchen region, the designers are bringing 500 trees recently burnt in a forest fire into the MAK. As visitors walk through the burnt and blackened forest of trees, they notice how their skeletal remains gracefully return their fertility to the earth around them. On arriving at a clearing, a glistening pool invites visitors to observe their reflections in the water, alongside those of many other species on the planet.
 
This evocative installation provides an opportunity to reflect on our fragile, closely networked relationship with the natural world—an opportunity to imagine strategies that go beyond merely human concerns, based on regeneration, redistribution, and rewilding.
 
The project is so designed that all the installation’s components will have an afterlife to neutralize its CO2 footprint.

Artists: Superflux
Curator: Marlies Wirth
Curatorial Assistence: Antje Prisker
 
A project by Superflux
Head: Anab Jain, Jon Ardern
Team: Ed Lewis, Florian Semlitsch, Niccolo Fioritti, Eva Tausig, Lizzie Crouch, Leanne Fischler, Nicola Ferrao, Matt Edgson
Soundscape: Cosmo Sheldrake
Motion Design: Michele Vannoni and Dimitris Papadimitriou

This project is part of CreaTures EU. CreaTures has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 870759. The content presented represents the views of the authors, and the European Commission has no liability in respect of the content.


Cooperation Partners:
Anton Starkl, Gärtnerei Starkl GmbH
SANlight Research GmbH
Doka Österreich GmbH
Alpenzoo Innsbruck – Tirol
Thomas Krenn, Saubersdorf Fire Department
Georg Heinz, Neunkirchen District Forest Range

Color consulting:
Prof. Christoph Wirth, SEFRA Farben & Tapetenvertrieb GMBH

 
MAK Exhibition Hall (ground floor, Central Hall)
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien

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Date
28.05. – 03.10.

Location
MAK

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