Flood
is a dynamic projection mapping on the Johann Nestroy school building in Bad Ischl, which the media artists Ruth Schnell and
Martin Kusch have adapted for the opening of Salzkammergut 2024. The façade of the building will become part of a spectacular
animation, the visual basis of which is the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948.
This United Nations Charter of Human Rights comprises 30 articles, and further agreements
and protocols have been added to form the International Bill of Rights.
The effects of climate change and
environmental degradation are forcing people around the world, especially from the Global South, into increasingly precarious
living conditions. The ecological challenges of the present are complex. They also have social and therefore human rights
components - for example, the right to access to clean water was recognized as a human right by the UN General Assembly in
2010.
In Flood, texts and images intertwined: moving images of landscapes, of water, but also of the consequences
of the overexploitation of the earth and its climate, emerge from the letters and words that form both the valid version of
human rights and their most virulent extensions with regards to climate change.
Striking terms that make
the current state of the world tangible are also modeled from the letters of the International Bill of Rights as well as from
light and shadow.
The sound for Flood has a spatially expanding effect: the sound is a specially produced
composition of text and sound on the subject matter as well as atmospheres from nature and technology.
Concept,
idea, realization: Ruth Schnell and Martin Kusch (kondition pluriel)
Programming: Johannes Hucek
3D modeling
/ Animation: Malte Niedringhaus
Sound: Alexandre St-Onge
AI-Voices: Marie-Claude Poulin
Image research: Thomas
Hochwallner
First performance: "Lichtstadt Feldkirch" 2023
Flood was produced with the support
of the fulldomeXR Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
https://www.salzkammergut-2024.at/en/projekte/flood-2024-2/https://konditionpluriel.org/en/artworks/flood/https://ruthschnell.org/en/works/flood/
