Scenes & Refrains from Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies (Retroflectors: the astronaut, the robot, the alien), 2017
(exhibition view, Salonul de proiecte / Bucharest)
| Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies |
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Essay-film, DCP, 43 min, 2018 Installation, objects, 2-channel video, 2017 Lecture performance, 2016-17 A series of works tracing historical, present, and future links between outer space & ecology. A Frankenstein monster patched together from essayistic formats, pseudo-biographical elements, and loads of archive material from countless sources. Kind of Eco-Noir. |
| Space Post Colonialism |
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Installation, prints, video, 2013-15 Based on a trip to the San Francisco Bay area, researching the history and legacy of space settlement designs of the 1970s. The distance between the Earth & the Moon, and the stuff that happened in the space between. |
| Das Innenleben der Sonde als Monument unermesslicher Suess-Effekte, vergeblich isoliert |
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frozen Viennese tap water, 100 x 100 x 100 cm, 2015 A probe at the UNESCO Biosphere Park Wienerwald, investigating the effects of Eduard Suess, from coining the term "biosphere" to the Wiener Hochquellwasserleitung or the Anthropocene. |
| Just because ur paranoid doesn't mean ecology |
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Prints & video essay, 2014 „All things are connected“: Falsely attributed to the Native American Chief Seattle, this slogan can be often found in the context of the ecological movement. At the same time it is characteristic of conspiracy theories. |
| Obviously a major malfunction / KAGO KAGO KAGO BE |
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Installation / exhibition, 2011/2012 The space shuttle as a vehicle to travel through time / a history of the past three decades / two disasters framing global transformation. |
| Why do we see the photo of the Whole Earth so often (that we don’t even see it anymore)? |
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Video, 2012 Tracing the history of the Whole Earth photo and its legacy for seemingly disconnected developments of the past decades: an endless array of Earth photos, annotated by handwritten comments. |
| The Ninth Biospherian |
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Installations, exhibitions, performance, 2007 – Tracking down history, context and legacy of Biosphere 2, a miniature world under glass; from 1991-993 eight people lived inside this closed ecological system, exploring ecological networks and testing future space colonies. Transmedia-Translations of The Ninth Biospherian: a Science Fiction novel, a phantom, a MacGuffin. |
| I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THIS PLACE BUT I’M GOING TO PROMOTE IT |
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Intervention in public space, Chengdu, 2008 During a residency in Chengdu I put up eight red banners in addition to the ubiquitious Chinese propaganda, announcement and commercial banners. |
| Writing - selected texts: |
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– Beyond the Blue Marble
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peer-reviewed paper on space and ecology in Acta Astronautica – On Performative Research – The Familiar / Schwindel is the Best Translation -> engl. (.PDF) – On Steve Bannon and Biosphere 2 – HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS, 26a -> engl. (.PDF) – Translator's note: The Ninth Biospherian -> dt. (.PDF), engl. (.PDF) |
| Publications & Catalogues |
Der Raum, der sich unter einer Treppe ergibt, die (...), 2007/2008 |
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Der Raum, der sich unter einer Treppe ergibt, (...) self-published booklet, dt., 2007/2008 |
Die Ziolkowski-Achse / The Tsiolkovsky Axis dt./engl., Adocs, Hamburg, 2011 |
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Die Ziolkowski-Achse The Tsiolkovsky Axis Adocs, dt./engl., 2011 |
 Den Meteoriten die Würde zurückgeben dt., booklet, 2010 |
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Den Meteoriten die Würde zurückgeben dt., 2008 |
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS various Offset-Posters, with Philipp Haupt and others, 2006-2007 |
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HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS various Offset-print posters, 2006-2007 |
Messages from a History of Closed Systems Postcard-Series, together w/ Oliver Gemballa Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, BiH, 2015 |
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Closed Systems Postcard-Series, 2015 |
