13 Jul 2012

REGIONALE12 in Murau

REGIONALE12 recommends two exhibitions:

'Cooling Station. Worldwide Geoengineering and Local Weather-Making'

Cooling Station, curated by Klaus Schafler, deals with interventions in the climate system and their effects – and the question of who is entitled to govern decisions on a global level in the future – if we assume technological weather can be already manipulated. Contemporary geoengineering strategies are varied: for example, the reduction of solar radiation on the Earth by creating whiter, more reflective clouds. The exhibition brings together eleven artistic positions that put this dilemma in the borderzones of vision, utopia, and fantasies of omnipotence - up for debate: for example, Peter Fend's focus on algae as valuable biomass, Christoph Keller's reenactment of the so-called cloudbuster experiments, or Nin Brudermann's investigations into weather balloons.

Artists: Laura Bruce, Nin Brudermann, Peter Fend, Florian Hüttner & Ralf Weißleder, Christoph Keller, Ralo Mayer, Eva Meyer- Keller & Sybille Müller, Josh Müller, Nils Norman, Andrea Polli, Klaus Schafler, Weather Permitting

Performance: Cooking Catastrophes. Friday July 13th

The exhibition is the departure point for a focal point weekend from July 12 to 15, 2012, to discuss the aforementioned questions from different points of views: A specialist conference of the Province of Styria, a symposium that explores how synergies between artistic practices and scientific strategies can address climate change, and the 'KlimaHof' (ClimateFarm), a venue for in-depth dialogic debate and experiments, represent the central format of the first Forum for Advanced Energy, Climate, and Weather Issues.


'WO WIR UNS FINDEN' ('WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES')

The central topic of the show, curated by artist Uli Vonbank-Schedler and historian Werner Koroschitz, in the village museum is the changes in the rural economy over the decades in the 20th century. New travelling attiudes of the urban middle class in the beginning of the century, which brought changing economies of attention, Austro fascism in the 20ies, in which Jews were not allowed to go on holidays to the country side, or the post-war period, which brought new technologies and a new romantic view on the country side for holiday makers. Thirteen artists and a social historical section reflect continuities and cesura of one century in small villages in the mountains.

With: Songül Boyraz, Martin Dickinger, Jeanne Faust & Jörn Zehe, Christian Jankowski, Willi Jungmeier, Angelika Kampfer, Pipilotti Rist, Hans Schabus, Robert Schabus, Heimo Wallner, Elisa Vladilo, Martin Zrost