How It Was As It Is
Austellung im ehemaligen Karmelitinnenkloster, Gmunden
with raum&designstrategies
Juni 26 - Juli 14, 2024
Opening Juni 25, 06:30 - 09:30 pm
Klosterplatz 8, 4810 Gmunden
The final exhibition of the raum&designSTRATEGIEN degree programme at the University of Art and Design Linz will be shown this year in the former Karmelitinnenkloster of Gmunden. Inspired by the location and its surroundings, students are presenting projects that deal individually with current social and ecological issues as part of the annual theme ‘Emerging Environments’.
raum&designSTRATEGIEN combines elements of design, architecture and art and aims to analyse and shape future ways of life. Students develop strategies for co-operative coexistence between the human and non-human environment and explore the challenges and possibilities of new forms of living together. The exhibition HOW IT WAS AS IT IS shows a spectrum of works ranging from a utopian architecture for fish, experiments with plants, sound installations and photo collages to textile sculptures. This diversity reflects the various strategies and approaches to translating the theme of ‘Emerging Environments’ into concept, material and form. In addition to the works in and around the monastery, performances will also take place on the floating platforms of Plateau Blo_Raum on the lake. HOW IT WAS AS IT IS is part of the AVANTGARD/EN 2024 project, as is Plateau Blo a project of Salzkammergut 2024.
Su Guryay’s work “encapsulated beauty” , nature is meticulously manipulated and controlled to conform to a sanitized urban landscape. Sensation is curated as natural elements are shaped and encapsulated, freezing them in an eternal present. This artistic intervention symbolizes humanity’s overarching control, halting the natural lifecycle of decay and rebirth. It reflects our desire to preserve a perpetual state of beauty, where nature’s organic rhythms are subdued under human influence