AIL: Toxic Temple
Processual Exhibition
Angewandte Innovation Laboratory - AIL
In a processual exhibition, Anna Lerchbaumer and Kilian
Jörg venerate the beauty of the oil stains, the sublimity of technoscrap,
the enlightenment of radioactivity and the transcendence of extinction. Perhaps our new gods will be smelly zombies. LET`S
MEET AT THE END OF THE WORLD and let's dance in the intoxication of poisoning!
Leached soils, acidified seas, polluted atmospheres. We are haunted by the repressed. We can no longer escape its poison.
LET'S GET SICK WITH IT!
A shrine for the inner contradictions, absurdities and risks we are indulging into on a daily
basis. A solidarization with the facts.
We enter wastelands instead of unspoiled soil and let the artifacts speak for
themselves. Colourful assemblages of things that connect the known cosmos, shaky grounds of new divinity and acrid smells
that carry us into the sublime. Landfills are the new temples. In a sadistic manner we inhale the here and now. Transformative
forces are released. Free radicals. Rituals to unmask the chaos beneath the smooth surface.
What changes when we religiously
worship the power of toxicity? Can a cosmic connection be achieved in our time of disaster through a cult of pollution?