© Photo: Motion Capture Animation (c) Troika
Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture and Design Collection
In an immersive spatial installation specially conceived for the MAK, the artist collective Troika (Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastian Noel) focuses on the multi-layered forms of non-human intelligence. While in the digital animation "Terminal Beach" a robotic arm covered in fur fells the last tree on earth, the scenography is expanded into the real space by 3D-printed digital twins of museum objects that populate a flooded landscape as enigmatic creatures.
In addition, the MAK is showing environmental posters by graphic designer, lawyer, political activist and early environmentalist Klaus Staeck under the title "Nothing is finished! (20 March - 26 May 2024). With the exhibition CRITICAL CONSUMPTION (30.8.2023-8.9.2024), the MAK takes a critical look at the rapid changes in the fashion industry and motivates visitors to examine their own consumer behaviour in a variety of ways. The MAK Design Lab makes sustainable solutions conceivable and tangible, illustrating the many ways in which design can contribute to positive change.
