#Metamorphium

The exhibition – which also serves as a journey of discovery through the theatre and the park – brings together works that navigate the terrain between shifts in perception, speculation and play. In this dazzling zone between reality and science fiction, hidden layers of the present, past and future overlap and – against a backdrop of man-made climate change, unchecked exploitation in the name of growth, multiple crises and artificial intelligence – point to the possibility and, at the same time, the inevitability of change. The vast majority of the installations are participatory experimental setups that invite playful discovery.

In the theatre

Gaitless by Uroš Krčadinac & Marko Milić × MIREVI shifts perception and action. In an interactive space, visitors are invited to move beyond familiar patterns in order to outwit an AI. The digital installation Speculative Future by MIREVI uses an AI-controlled distorting mirror to create visions of the viewers’ futures – deepfakes as ironic projections of ourselves, which you can even take home with you. Daniel Nehring’s installation Ode to the Sun II displays a multitude of objects reminiscent of insect exoskeletons or cocoons.

In the park

Looking through the RaumZeitPirates’ giant kaleidoscope transforms the surroundings into a kaleidoscopic mosaic of dreams. In Jonathan Harth’s Dreamcatcher, visitors encounter the speculative dreams and nightmares of an AI inside an old telephone box, whilst in Evelyn Möcking’s sound installation In my ears the ground crawls, stones sing, courtship is everywhere, our surroundings become tangible as a resonant, living world: vibrations, animal calls and mineral resonances combine to form a polyphonic composition. Daniel Nehring’s Im Inneren (Inside) is a kind of archaeological zone whose drill cores lead into the Earth’s interior – a vertical narrative of geological, cultural and imaginary layers that touch upon both the past and utopia. In the stereoscopic projection We, Brute Force by Charlotte Triebus, we encounter seemingly mutated beings in an imaginary underworld, whilst in Physis Machina by MIREVI we shape the world ourselves: through visitors’ interventions, the artificial nature is constantly transformed – machine and organism, image and action, chance and decision. As dusk falls, the two works Im Bann des Lichtkreises and Reflektionen by Bekim Aliji come into their own even more, for light is their very essence.

Interventions

Don’t be surprised if, on some days, glittering jewel beetles, rain clouds or coral reefs are strolling through the park. This exhibition showcases utopian fashion designed to adapt to the new realities of life in the Anthropocene.