VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / CIRCULAR FLOWS
This item in the Sustainable Design category at the Laufen Innovation Hub is juxtaposed with two artworks from the field of BioArt: Mary Maggic’s video “Housewives Making Drugs” shows how molecules are extracted from ground water for private hormone therapy, and Lucie Strecker’s fairground attraction and live performance “Brains’ Shit for Shit Brains” speculates on the importance of microbial diversity in sociopolitical contexts.
#DESIGN TAKES ON HUMAN SURVIVAL
The relationship between the production of nature and art in the age of Technoscience: How do artists encounter with the obvious fact that mankind is turning the world in the age of the Anthropocene into a large experimental laboratory with an uncertain outcome?
Ingeborg Reichle, University of Applied Arts, Media Theory
« HOUSEWIVES MAKING DRUGS »
« MOLECULAR QUEERING AGENCY »
Molecular Queering Agency – A fictional agency that guides viewers towards the process of “queering” showing how malleable and unfixed our bodies actually are, especially in a world where toxicity and mutation are inescapable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3bFEAcz5t8&feature=youtu.be
Housewives Making Drugs – A cooking show where transwomen share a DIY estrogen recipe where the hormones are extracted and recycled form urine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeyhNquwHKs
« BRAINS` SHIT FOR SHIT BRAINS »
In a fairground attraction and live performance called “Brains’ Shit for Shit Brains”, Lucie Strecker speculates on the importance of microbial diversity in sociopolitical contexts and addresses the still taboo topic of faeces.
« WERK (S) KUNST »
Until 7 October in Laufen Innovation Hub
The Ceramics Symposium Gmunden (1963-1969 and 2018) brought international artists together with engineers and craftsmen in the field of industrial ceramics production to share their experience.
The exhibition, consisting of a selection of the sculptures that were created during the symposium, was curated by
Prof. Christine Schwaiger from the New Design University.
MONDAY, 30. SEPTEMBER
OPEN DOORS & COCKTAILS 18.30
LAUFEN SHOWROOM & INNOVATION HUB
SALZGRIES 21, AN DER MARIENSTIEGE, 1010 VIENNA
LIVE PERFORMANCE
LUCIE STECKER, University of Applied Arts, Art & Science, artist and performer
TALK
#DESIGN TAKES ON HUMAN SURVIVAL
Keynote: HARALD GRÜNDL, EOOS DESIGN, designer
Keynote: INGEBORG REICHLE, University of Applied Arts, Media Theory
LUCIE STECKER, University of Applied Arts, Art & Science, artist and performer MARC VIARDOT, MD Central European BU, LAUFEN
Via live video link:
MARY MAGGIC, artist and biohacker
THILO HOFMANN, University of Vienna, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
Moderation:
GABRIEL ROLAND, Vienna Design Week, curator, project manager
