humanless nature
When applying science to social questions, the challenge of picking and choosing ideas arises.
Having survival of the fittest and natural selection painted as some deity perhaps made comparisons to predestination and
the invisible hand easier, maybe helping Darwinism become the status quo. This translation of complex and abstract scientific
theories into ‘accessible’ human terms is difficult and, at times, problematic.
The ecosystem in the diorama is a response to the initial difficulty we face of trying to imagine an Earth in no way related to ours, despite it being the same planet. By developing the Gabonionta with mutualism as the primary driving factor from a world where predation did not exist to a world where it does, we essentially are rejecting the Darwinian notion of competition.
Credits
Eva-Maria Lainer
Ludwig Rieger
Moritz Berchtold
Stephan Sinn