{"id":6,"date":"2015-07-28T03:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2017-09-25T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:25:43","slug":"mission-w","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/mission-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission W"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on their common interest in site-specific exhibition spaces outside the white cube, and in the fluid relations between people, objects and nature, the artists EVA ENGELBERT and KATRIN HORNEK have invited nine other artists to develop works for a forest site in the Vienna Woods:<\/p>\n

BARBARA KAPUSTA \/ NO\u00cbLE ODY, LUDWIG KITTINGER, RALO MAYER, KLAUS SCHAFLER, SUSANNE SCHUDA, EVA SEILER, EKATERINA SHAPIRO-OBERMAIR and JOHANNA TINZL.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The site chosen for the exhibition \u2013 on the edge of Vienna\u2019s sixteenth district, close to the Jubil\u00e4umswarte viewing tower \u2013\u00a0is not only a popular local recreation area but also part of a global network. In 2005, the Vienna Woods were named a UNESCO Biosphere Park. This is defined as a model region for research \u2013 a testing ground for economically, ecologically and socially sustainable development. Particular emphasis is put on human activity as forming part of the biosphere.<\/p>\n

Humans are also increasingly a determining factor in geology. Geology as a discipline defines the epochs of the Earth\u2019s history in terms of the layers laid down in the planet\u2019s crust. According to biologist Eugene F. Stoermer and atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen \u2013 also a Nobel laureate in Chemistry \u2013 we have now entered the \u201cAnthropocene,\u201d a new epoch shaped by human activity. We have irreversibly changed the Earth\u2019s ecosystem, becoming a geological factor in our own right. Humans and nature can thus be considered re-united, comprising a single entity.<\/p>\n

The temporary exhibition MISSION W is conceived as an experimental apparatus capable of registering a series of mutual interactions: between what is grown and what is made, between the verifiable and the unknown, between geo-engineering and climate change. This is a mission into the forest, a mission to investigate complex political, social and historical interactions. It raises questions about our conceptual frameworks for nature and culture, and the boundary that lies between the two. Further questions address the interactions that appear in these systems when very different materials are brought together: the palms of the human hand, the tops of trees, a temporary clearance permit1<\/sup><\/a>, hemispheres of the brain and computer mice.<\/p>\n

The artists\u2019 approaches are partly formal and partly conceptual. Some works affect their location, some melt or are eaten by animals. Others make reference to objects or buildings at the site, including benches, information boards and the underground wartime command bunker locally known as the \u201cSchirach Bunker.\u201d As well as these historical references, there is also a role here for previous experiments in hermetically sealed, self-sustaining ecosystems, including the American \u201cBiosphere 2\u201d and the Soviet \u201cBIOS-3\u201d2<\/sup>.<\/a><\/p>\n

KLAUS SCHAFLER<\/span> makes reference to both of these previous experiments. He uses a construction site billboard to announce the building of a fictional research station, intended to use geo-engineering to test life in artificial environments.<\/p>\n

RALO MAYER<\/span>\u00a0places a covered block of ice in the forest, composed of frozen Viennese mountain spring water. The iceblock is affected by changes in the weather conditions, thematizing two separate \u201cSuess effects.\u201d<\/p>\n

With her three sculptural displays and a video available on the Internet, EKATERINA SHAPIRO\u00adOBERMAIR <\/span>invokes a topographically similar location far outside the Vienna Woods: Gorki Leninskiye near Moscow, the deathplace of Lenin.<\/p>\n

In her audio piece, Position Report<\/em>,\u00a0JOHANNA TINZL<\/span> brings the visitor along the traces of the \u201cSchirach Bunker\u201d, a structure invisible from the surface. The central motif of a cuckoo\u2019s call links today\u2019s nature reserve with what came before \u2013 the Nazi \u201cAir Warning Center – Ostmark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by the Henry Moore sculpture in front of UNESCO\u2019s headquarters \u2013\u00a0a piece created in collaboration with the Paris rain \u2013 KATRIN HORNEK\u2019S Cloud (Nephele) <\/em>observes the processes of morphological formation generated by the Vienna Woods Biosphere.<\/p>\n

LUDWIG KITTINGER\u2019<\/span>S mobile pavilion is an open space within a space, the artist\u2019s base within the forest. Here, during the construction phase, Kittinger used a grinding machine to reduce a dead tree to dust, dispersed by the wind in all directions.<\/p>\n

EVA ENGELBERT\u2019S work is an acoustic and sculptural artifact of her engagement with the National Socialist past. In an act between destruction, recycling and (theoretical) reactivation, the artist loudly sounds out the ruins of the \u201cSchirach Bunker\u201d.<\/p>\n

SUSANNE SCHUDA<\/span> developes a totem between modern self-construction and a mixture of mystified nature and psychologized biochemistry. Fictional diary entries lay the foundation for textual and visual chains of association.<\/p>\n

BARBARA KAPUSTA<\/span> and\u00a0NO\u00cbLE ODY<\/span> have created two objects that speak to each other and are made for each other \u2013 two materials that can tell the spectator stories of bodies, of movements, of presence and absence.<\/p>\n

Based on her interest in phyllomancy \u2013 telling the future from the sound and movements of leaves and trees \u2013\u00a0EVA SEILER<\/span> has created an oracle-object.<\/p>\n

The exhibition MISSION W is accompanied by an extensive program of events, with contributions from artists MARLENE HAUSEGGER, SABINA HOLZER \/ JACK HAUSER and EMANUEL MAUTHE, scientists HERBERT HOI, ERWIN RIESS and ALEXANDRA WIESHAIDER and theorists HEATHER DAVIS \/ Claudia Slanar and RAIMAR STANGE.<\/p>\n

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1\u2009\u2014\u2009Rodung meint die Verwendung von Waldboden zu anderen Zwecken als solche der Waldkultur. Um das Waldst\u00fcck f\u00fcr <\/span>Mission W<\/span> nutzen zu k\u00f6nnen, musste ein f\u00f6rmlicher Antrag auf eine vor\u00fcbergehende Rodungsbewilligung f\u00fcr das Rahmen\u00adgebiet von insgesamt 26306 m2<\/sup> (KG 01405 Ottakring, Einlagezahl 1991) bei der MA 58 gestellt werden.<\/span><\/p>\n

2\u2009\u2014\u2009In der sibirischen BIOS-3<\/i><\/b> (1972\u2009\u2013\u20091984) wurden insgesamt zehn Experimente auf\u00a0<\/span>315 m3<\/sup><\/span> Lebensraum durchgef\u00fchrt. Beim l\u00e4ngsten Experiment hielten es die drei Crewmitglieder 180 Tage aus.\u00a0Bio\u00adsphere 2<\/i><\/b> ist ein 1991 in Arizona erbauter, 1,3 Hektar gro\u00dfer Geb\u00e4udekomplex, der ebenfalls mit dem Ziel errichtet wurde, ein sich selbst erhaltendes \u00d6kosystem beruhend auf den Erkenntnissen der Biosph\u00e4re 1<\/i><\/b> – der Erde – zu schaffen. Beim ersten Versuch lebten acht Teilnehmer\/innen f\u00fcr zwei Jahre und 20 Minuten in dem Glasgeb\u00e4ude.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. Ausgehend von ihrem geteilten Interesse an ortsspezifischen Ausstellungssituationen au\u00dferhalb des White Cube und dem fluiden Verh\u00e4ltnis zwischen Mensch, Objekt und Natur, haben die K\u00fcnstler\u00adinnen Eva Engelbert und Katrin Hornek neun weitere K\u00fcnstler\/innen eingeladen, Arbeiten f\u00fcr ein Waldst\u00fcck im Wienerwald zu entwickeln\u2009: BARBARA KAPUSTA \/ NO\u00cbLE ODY, LUDWIG […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-w.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}