#diebotschaft

[janherdlicka]

“Die Botschaft”

Site-specific installation

overalls, aluminium foil, chains, acrylic glass,preserved ivy, airplus

400x300cm

for Labirynt-Festival of New Art 2022

Urad (Poland)

‘Die Botschaft’ interprets the festival’s theme ‘window’ as a platform that casts a view on the future of humanity that – in spite of its technologically induced unstoppable strive for the skies – is nevertheless earthbound to nature.

The further civilization strives to develop a life beyond earth, the more we are connected to it – alas, earth will eventually grow over us and through us. The native plants (ivy) preserved behind the windows/vizors of the three caught-up messengers are pioneer plants of this development. A development that already set off right in front of our door steps.

[janherdlicka]

“Die Botschaft”

Site-specific installation

overalls, aluminium foil, chains, acrylic glass,preserved ivy, airplus

400x300cm

for Labirynt-Festival of New Art 2022

Urad (Poland)

‘Die Botschaft’ interprets the festival’s theme ‘window’ as a platform that casts a view on the future of humanity that – in spite of its technologically induced unstoppable strive for the skies – is nevertheless earthbound to nature.

The further civilization strives to develop a life beyond earth, the more we are connected to it – alas, earth will eventually grow over us and through us. The native plants (ivy) preserved behind the windows/vizors of the three caught-up messengers are pioneer plants of this development. A development that already set off right in front of our door steps.

[janherdlicka]

“Die Botschaft”

Site-specific installation

overalls, aluminium foil, chains, acrylic glass,preserved ivy, airplus

400x300cm

for Labirynt-Festival of New Art 2022

Urad (Poland)

‘Die Botschaft’ interprets the festival’s theme ‘window’ as a platform that casts a view on the future of humanity that – in spite of its technologically induced unstoppable strive for the skies – is nevertheless earthbound to nature.

The further civilization strives to develop a life beyond earth, the more we are connected to it – alas, earth will eventually grow over us and through us. The native plants (ivy) preserved behind the windows/vizors of the three caught-up messengers are pioneer plants of this development. A development that already set off right in front of our door steps.

[janherdlicka]

“Die Botschaft”

Site-specific installation

overalls, aluminium foil, chains, acrylic glass,preserved ivy, airplus

400x300cm

for Labirynt-Festival of New Art 2022

Urad (Poland)

‘Die Botschaft’ interprets the festival’s theme ‘window’ as a platform that casts a view on the future of humanity that – in spite of its technologically induced unstoppable strive for the skies – is nevertheless earthbound to nature.

The further civilization strives to develop a life beyond earth, the more we are connected to it – alas, earth will eventually grow over us and through us. The native plants (ivy) preserved behind the windows/vizors of the three caught-up messengers are pioneer plants of this development. A development that already set off right in front of our door steps.

[janherdlicka]

Die Botschaft II

Site-specific mixed media Installation

250x250x80cm

2023

at

DRAGONER.01

"Super Contemporary Arts Fest"

Dragonerareal, Berlin-Kreuzberg

While "Die Botschaft I" was shown as an open-air installation as part of the "Labirynt - Festival of New Art" 2022 in the Polish forest in Urad, "Die Botschaft II" is shown in its subsequent state of development under the roof of Dragonerareals Adlerhalle.

While the multi-part installation began with a landing in a large-scale (spider?) web made of metal chains, the three figures are now shown hanging upside down, individually partitioned in a fabric structure of artificial spider silk framed by the same chains.

While "Die Botschaft I" reflected an initial collective entanglement taking place at the back of the human gaze to the heavens and human striving turned away from the earth - a self-induced, introductory concatenation with human and non-human structures - the position of the messengers, as representatives of the collectively human, already appears much more acute in the second part of the work cycle.

Enclosed tighter and tighter by the man-made structures of the metal chains, the messengers seem to have lost all freedom of movement and/or action. But are the fabric structures created underneath really spherical nets as markers of the imminent dissolution of the messengers in the planetary corpus? Or could they also be cocoons that herald the possibility of a transformation and new formation of the human in relation to the non-human?

[janherdlicka]

Die Botschaft II

Site-specific mixed media Installation

250x250x80cm

2023

at

DRAGONER.01

"Super Contemporary Arts Fest"

Dragonerareal, Berlin-Kreuzberg

While "Die Botschaft I" was shown as an open-air installation as part of the "Labirynt - Festival of New Art" 2022 in the Polish forest in Urad, "Die Botschaft II" is shown in its subsequent state of development under the roof of Dragonerareals Adlerhalle.

While the multi-part installation began with a landing in a large-scale (spider?) web made of metal chains, the three figures are now shown hanging upside down, individually partitioned in a fabric structure of artificial spider silk framed by the same chains.

While "Die Botschaft I" reflected an initial collective entanglement taking place at the back of the human gaze to the heavens and human striving turned away from the earth - a self-induced, introductory concatenation with human and non-human structures - the position of the messengers, as representatives of the collectively human, already appears much more acute in the second part of the work cycle.

Enclosed tighter and tighter by the man-made structures of the metal chains, the messengers seem to have lost all freedom of movement and/or action. But are the fabric structures created underneath really spherical nets as markers of the imminent dissolution of the messengers in the planetary corpus? Or could they also be cocoons that herald the possibility of a transformation and new formation of the human in relation to the non-human?

[janherdlicka]

"Die Botschaft", Ausstellung Jan Herdlicka