Energy at the Threshold of the Visible World
Energy At the Threshold of the Visible World
Angewandte
Interdisciplinary Lab
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
This exhibition
is part of Klima Biennale 2024
Energy is a scientific concept, but also part of discourse and deeply related
to power structures. To borrow the term from Donna Haraway, it is part of the ‘natureculture’ of the modern world; it can
be studied historically while it is part of natural complexity and a description of a scalar physical quantity that can be
measured, transformed and transferred. Entangled in the physical and the political, thermodynamic and metabolic, geologic
and corporeal, extractive and renewable, landscapes and bodies, energy remains a part of the modern world that is particularly
abstract and obscure.
Visualizations of energy, past and present,
are critical as they translate scientific research and data into other fields, displaying the entanglements of energy. They
have the potential to become signs, by bringing together the signifier, the signified and the perceiver. In such images, scientific
knowledge and aesthetics go hand in hand, and energy enters the threshold of the visible world.
Already in the 7th century,
Isidore of Seville suggested the entanglements of energy, when he wrote that the words color and ‘calor’ (heat) come from
the same root in his Etymologies. In the 19th century, James Clerk Maxwell’s insights on the nature of electromagnetic waves
showed the difference between light and heat to be a wave’s frequency. It is possible to consider the relation between aesthetics
and energy, and ask: what color is energy today, for this society and culture?
This exhibition brings together the historical
visualizations of energy along with the work of artists and architects reflecting on the colors, images and representations
of energy.
With works by Hubert Dobler, Exikon, Barbara Kapusta, Mathias Kessler, Galo Patricio Moncayo Asan and Michael
Wang.
The exhibition was conceptualized and organized by Tülay Atak and Bernhard Sommer with Galo Patricio Moncayo Asan,
Malgorzata Sommer-Nawara, Florian Zeif and Daniil Zhiltsov, and with graphic design by Annija Česka.
Related event:
In conjunction with the exhibition, the symposium building Environments: Architectural Theory beyond a Changing Climate will
take place on 3 May at Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstr. 7
This research project is funded by the INTRA program
of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
With special thanks to: Prof. Reinhold Krobath (Holztechnologie), Univ.
Lekt. Gerhard Brandstötter, Tilman Fabini, Sami Mandee, Marian Stein
Exhibtion Opening: 03 May 2024, 19:00
Lecture Constructing Climates by Michael Wang
Response by Baerbel Mueller
3 May 2024, 17:30
Running: 04 May 2024 – 29 May 2024
Opening hours:
Mon–Fri: 11:00–18:00
Extra Saturday: 4 May,
10:00–18:00
Energy At the Threshold of the Visible World
Angewandte
Interdisciplinary Lab
Events
Lecture Constructing Climates by Michael Wang Response by Baerbel Mueller
03. May 2024 - 17:30
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Opening
03. May 2024 - 19:00
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Georg-Coch-Platz
2, 1010 Wien
Duration
04. May 2024 - 29. May 2024
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
