Austria. Soft image, Brittle Grounds

Commissionata da: MAK – Museo di Arti Applicate, Vienna A cura di: Marlies Wirth Progetto di: Felix Lenz Austria. Soft image, Brittle Grounds In un’era in cui i sistemi digitali dominano economie, ecosistemi e strutture sociali, l'installazione multimediale Soft Image, Brittle Grounds, commissionata dal MAK, esplora le interconnessioni fra tecnologia, ecologia, potere e disuguaglianze. Partendo dal suo film d’essai Brute Force (Exhibition cut) (2025), e l’installazione video Valley of the Heart’s (2025), Felix Lenz indaga le implicazioni materiali e politiche della tecnologia e dell’estrattivismo della conoscenza, cogliendo, in lente queer, come la complessità del nostro mondo si scontri con le razionalità semplificate dell'era digitale. Promoted by: Monash University Curated by: Monash Urban Lab with Baracco+Wright Architects Exhibition design: Baracco+Wright Architects Austria. Soft image, Brittle Grounds Since colonial settlement of Melbourne in 1835 the use of unceded land for low rise housing has created a large metropolitan footprint producing inequalities between the species, systems and First Nations people living there and those that "arrived". Still today the inefficient low-rise sprawl continues as a solution to a housing crisis underpinned by other inequalities. In the rush to address one inequality, the inequality of land use between species deepens. On the edges of Melbourne outdated practices of land clearing and site scraping carry on. This inequality of land use intersects, displaces and destroys ancient remnant ecosystems, habitats and culturally sensitive sites.