21 June 2024INAUGURATION - NEW ECOLOGIES 2024
A Crack in Deep Time is inaugurated in Chemnitz this Friday, June 21, 2024.
OOZE (Eva Pfannes & Sylvain Hartenberg ) and Marjetica Potrč have reunited with “A Crack in Deep Time’, a project exploring the relationship of the past, the present and future from the perspective of deep time – geological time.
It invites viewers to consider not only the adaptability and resilience of life on earth, but also the human contribution to the sixth mass extinction at a time of perceptible climate change.
The visitors encounter petrified logs from the fossil forest that have been embedded in a landscape of plants known as “living fossils”: descendants of the forest from millions of years ago which were able to adapt and are still thriving today.
The project is part of the extensive public art project "NEW ECOLOGIES" in summer 2024 in Chemnitz, a city shaped by its industrial and mining history. The city's past as a center of textile production, mechanical engineering, and uranium mining under the Soviet-German company Wismut has left a complex legacy. While Wismut now focuses on environmental cleanup, Chemnitz also celebrates its native son Carl von Carlowitz, regarded as the inventor of "sustainability”.
"NEW ECOLOGIES" aims to raise awareness of the climate crisis through artistic interventions by renowned and emerging artists, as well as local initiatives. It will bring global climate discourse to a local level and foster discussions on socio-political topics to develop future prospects. As a strategic voice, culture can make abstract climate facts tangible through diverse expressions, rendering them not just visually but also emotionally and intellectually accessible. The project focuses on sustainability, awareness, and participation to make the climate crisis visible.
The event is curated by Florian Mazner and Anja Richter and supported by the City of Chemnitz
KUNST SAMMLUNGEN CHEMNITZ
Realisation with the support of Alugla and CGS -Creative Garden Sachsen
ALUGLA
CGS
Join us for the opening!
21st of June 2024
17:00 – 23:30
Visiting information:
Dates:
21st of June - 29th of September 2024
Address:
Vacant lot next to the Museum für Naturkunde - TIETZ
Entrance @ Zschopauer Str. 2A, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
Inauguration:
Friday, June 21, 2024.
@ Stage at the Karl Marx Monument, Brückenstrasse 10
17.00
Welcome, Florence Thurmes, General Director of the Chemnitz Art Collections
Greetings, Dagmar Ruscheinsky & Michael Stötzer, Mayors of the City of Chemnitz
Introduction to the exhibition, Florian Matzner, Anja Richter Curators of the exhibition with the participating artists
18.00
Short tours of the exhibition
19.00
Party with the NEW ECOLOGIES DJ team, Weltecho, Annaberger Strasse 24
website:
www.gegenwarten.info
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