Installation/stage design for the play "Futurama" ART transport
Innsbruck, Lienz, Hall in Tirol, Reutte, 2017
Cooperation with Bertram Schrettl aka Bertram Schrecklich.
The installation Zuckerwatte (Cotton Candy), shown during the art transport, serves both as an independent artwork and as a stage for Futurama – The Performance.
The color scheme was the brilliant yet simple idea of my then five-year-old daughter, Gloria, who, when asked what the world would look like in 50 years, said it would be pink. In response to Gloria's "rose-colored glasses" optimism, Bertram and I wanted to present a pessimistic vision of the future, one that includes a nuclear catastrophe. Building on the overarching theme of Futurama, Gloria's creative input, and the apocalyptic future vision, we developed the robot as the central element of our installation/set.
Both the robot and the other objects are made from items that might be found in an (atomic shelter) bunker or basement. In the event of an apocalyptic disaster, these items could be repurposed and turned into utility objects. The objects created serve, on the one hand, as distractions and, on the other hand, as necessities for the fictional people living or merely surviving in the bunker.
The color pink is meant to reference both a utopia and a fictional apocalypse, creating a connection to dystopia. Through the blending of these motifs and prophecies, utopia and dystopia engage in dialogue, ultimately questioning and deconstructing binary thought systems (good/evil, optimism/pessimism).
The narrative of the play (the performance) was based on recordings of various people who deposited their future wishes and visions into the "wish boxes" we had set up publicly at the event location several weeks before the performance. These boxes were equipped with a telephone receiver and a hard drive to store the wishes.