Reverse Imagining Vienna

Over a two year period, the project brought together national and international experts from the disciplines of geology, physics, ecology, urban morphology, transport sciences, evolutionary biology, literature and sculpture. The nine anthropogenic materials most relevant to the case studies were identified and analyzed in terms of cultural history, environmental science and social metabolism, from extraction to recycling management and emissions. Samples of material allowed conclusions to be drawn about their respective origins; the geological formation and potential futures were discussed in lectures by the participating scientists and contextualized for further speculative processing. In this way, images of varied futures were created with a time horizon that extends from the present and spans into the geological distance.
The exhibition Reverse Imagining Vienna is the final presentation of the artistic research project of the same name. Sculptures, scientific analyses of the nine anthropogenic materials and the first volume of a publication containing the resulting literary contributions are on display. Four readings by the participating authors will take place as part of the exhibition.

Writers:
Ann Cotten, Elias Hirschl, Jakob Pretterhofer, Julia Grillmayr, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Neslihan Yakut, Nika Pfeifer, Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala

Scientists:
Angelika Psenner, Barbara Laa, Filipa L. Sousa, Fridolin Krausmann, Jan Zalasiewicz, Johannes Weber, Josepha Edbauer, Michael Wagreich, Peter Fichtinger, Sebastian Hafner, Tanja Traxler, Tess Posch
Project management and sculpure:
Christoph Weber, Nikolaus Eckhard

SIDE PROGRAM

Reading Nights (starting 18:30)
8 May with Jakob Pretterhofer, Fiston Mwanza Mujila
with performance by Nikolaus Eckhard and friends afterwards
15 May with Julia Grillmayr, Nika Pfeifer
22 May with Neslihan Yakut, Ann Cotten
29 May with Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Elias Hirschl

Opening hours:
Mon–Fri: 11:00–18:00
Extra Saturday: 4 May, 10:00–18:00