FUTUREPERFECTLAND
10-26 September 2021 | Berlin
The open-air exhibition FuturePerfectLand playfully appropriated the format of a travelling funfair as a provocative curatorial format. Seven newly commissioned, immersive artworks staged speculative realities shaped by the escalation of environmental change – manifestations of what happens when humanity simultaneously embraces and undermines the reality of the climate crisis, and rewrites the story of collapse. These site-specific, immersive, participatory and transdisciplinary environments submerged the audience in a liminal world on the border between reality and fiction through auditive, visual, performative, narrative and somatic strategies. The format of the travelling funfair was conceptualised as a controlled environment in which the intense emotional worlds that unfold when confronted with the climate catastrophe could safely be explored. The “future perfect” in FuturePerfectLand symbolised the grammatical tense of the future perfect as a tool for mental acrobacy - intercepting the narrative as it is being told.
FuturePerfectLand took place at Monopol Berlin, and was realised with the kind support of HauptstadtKulturFonds.
The mediation concept for FuturePerfectLand was developed in the frame of the preparatory project Welcome to FuturePerfectLand (2021). Collaboratively with the participating artists, the project researched strategies of on- and off-boarding for the spatial and performative mediation of immersive art. Welcome to FuturePerfectLand was funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste in the frame of the #TakePart programme.
The concept for FuturePerfectLand came into being as a result of the curatorial research project Futur(e) Perfekt (2020). Approaching the climate crisis not as a technical-scientific condition of collapsing environmental systems but as a collective social, cultural and psychological crisis of imagination, the participating artists developed speculative future scenarios that oscillate between the reality of unfolding climate change and the optimism of a potential mitigation of its consequences. Futur(e) Perfekt was realised with the Initialförderung of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.
Artistic Direction:
Lianne Mol , Yael Sherill , José Délano, Julia Kawka
Curation & Mediation:
Lianne Mol & Yael Sherill
Spatial Design:
José Délano
Production:
Julia Kawka
Artists Speculative Realities:
Betty Böhm, Jorge Castillo Chavarria, Paul Chaney, Shelley Etkin & Frederike Doffin, Valeria Germain & Andrea Krohn, Christoph Rothmeier, Gabriel Vallecillo Márquez
Artists Attractions:
Sofia Nordmann & Alexander Bieß, Raul Kirchhoff & Caique Tizzi, Andreas Heim, William Russell, José Délano
Head of Mediation:
Aurelie Richards
Special Thanks to:
Sophie Achinger, Rob Blake, Tschau Chen, Elisa Haf, Marc Herbst, Nora Hertwig, Henri Kirsch, Yuliya Kovalchuk, Sabine Moe, Amanda Priebe, José Contreras, Pascal Flamme, Andreas Kriston, Patrick Loibl, Matías Machado, Nora Gores, Pablo Hassmann, Tali Neiman, Dominíca Sol Ortiz, Barbara Wiebking, Yoav Admoni, Vincente Alamos, José Alarcon, Angela Alves, Edgard Berendsen, Kate Brehme (Berlinklusion), Codekat, Complex Earth Ltd, Christian Demarco, Catalina Fernández, Libi Gurdus, Juan Gabriel Harcha, Pavel Havrda, Oliver Hewitt, Jörg Hochapfel, Moritz Josenhans, Layla Klinger, Stephanie von Kretschmann, Pauline Loeb & Rodrigo Iervolino (Monopol), Santiago Mac-Auliffe, Tomáš Mládek, Tino Ortega, Eliza Posny (HKF), Fabian Remmert, Ivan Rosenberg, Mary Sarycheva, Igor Teichman, Theater o.N., Shlomit Yeshayahu
www.futureperfectland.com
The open-air exhibition FuturePerfectLand playfully appropriated the format of a travelling funfair as a provocative curatorial format. Seven newly commissioned, immersive artworks staged speculative realities shaped by the escalation of environmental change – manifestations of what happens when humanity simultaneously embraces and undermines the reality of the climate crisis, and rewrites the story of collapse. These site-specific, immersive, participatory and transdisciplinary environments submerged the audience in a liminal world on the border between reality and fiction through auditive, visual, performative, narrative and somatic strategies. The format of the travelling funfair was conceptualised as a controlled environment in which the intense emotional worlds that unfold when confronted with the climate catastrophe could safely be explored. The “future perfect” in FuturePerfectLand symbolised the grammatical tense of the future perfect as a tool for mental acrobacy - intercepting the narrative as it is being told.
FuturePerfectLand took place at Monopol Berlin, and was realised with the kind support of HauptstadtKulturFonds.
The mediation concept for FuturePerfectLand was developed in the frame of the preparatory project Welcome to FuturePerfectLand (2021). Collaboratively with the participating artists, the project researched strategies of on- and off-boarding for the spatial and performative mediation of immersive art. Welcome to FuturePerfectLand was funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste in the frame of the #TakePart programme.
The concept for FuturePerfectLand came into being as a result of the curatorial research project Futur(e) Perfekt (2020). Approaching the climate crisis not as a technical-scientific condition of collapsing environmental systems but as a collective social, cultural and psychological crisis of imagination, the participating artists developed speculative future scenarios that oscillate between the reality of unfolding climate change and the optimism of a potential mitigation of its consequences. Futur(e) Perfekt was realised with the Initialförderung of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.
Artistic Direction:
Lianne Mol , Yael Sherill , José Délano, Julia Kawka
Curation & Mediation:
Lianne Mol & Yael Sherill
Spatial Design:
José Délano
Production:
Julia Kawka
Artists Speculative Realities:
Betty Böhm, Jorge Castillo Chavarria, Paul Chaney, Shelley Etkin & Frederike Doffin, Valeria Germain & Andrea Krohn, Christoph Rothmeier, Gabriel Vallecillo Márquez
Artists Attractions:
Sofia Nordmann & Alexander Bieß, Raul Kirchhoff & Caique Tizzi, Andreas Heim, William Russell, José Délano
Head of Mediation:
Aurelie Richards
Special Thanks to:
Sophie Achinger, Rob Blake, Tschau Chen, Elisa Haf, Marc Herbst, Nora Hertwig, Henri Kirsch, Yuliya Kovalchuk, Sabine Moe, Amanda Priebe, José Contreras, Pascal Flamme, Andreas Kriston, Patrick Loibl, Matías Machado, Nora Gores, Pablo Hassmann, Tali Neiman, Dominíca Sol Ortiz, Barbara Wiebking, Yoav Admoni, Vincente Alamos, José Alarcon, Angela Alves, Edgard Berendsen, Kate Brehme (Berlinklusion), Codekat, Complex Earth Ltd, Christian Demarco, Catalina Fernández, Libi Gurdus, Juan Gabriel Harcha, Pavel Havrda, Oliver Hewitt, Jörg Hochapfel, Moritz Josenhans, Layla Klinger, Stephanie von Kretschmann, Pauline Loeb & Rodrigo Iervolino (Monopol), Santiago Mac-Auliffe, Tomáš Mládek, Tino Ortega, Eliza Posny (HKF), Fabian Remmert, Ivan Rosenberg, Mary Sarycheva, Igor Teichman, Theater o.N., Shlomit Yeshayahu
www.futureperfectland.com
