CHRISTOPH WEBER
LUIZA CROSMANTechnoflows
Current Museum Group Exhibition
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
New York
USA
21 Feb – 20 Apr 2025
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York proudly presents “TECHNOFLOWS: Luiza Crosman and Christoph Weber”, an exhibition that delves into critical themes of climate governance, planetary forecasting, and resource extraction, framed through the lens of the technosphere. This concept refers to the interconnected system of technologies that operate almost autonomously, metabolizing energy and shaping the Earth as a geological force. By engaging with this idea, the exhibition examines how technological systems influence the environment and humanity’s shared future. This artistic dialogue between São Paulo-based Brazilian artist Luiza Crosman (b. 1987) and Vienna-based Austrian artist Christoph Weber (b. 1974) features works addressing both the distributed nature of the climate emergency and more localized, specific issues. Crosman’s video piece Átropos Sky (2022) is a research-driven exploration of the sky as an interface for new forms of collectivity, emphasizing the roles of women as figures of foresight and future-telling. Weber’s work, Touch Fragments, Contact Print (Limestone Quarry of the Cement Industry) (2022), presents a life-size depiction of an extraction surface: a fractured limestone wall with two vertical boreholes, molded in translucent material and exposed on analog photographic paper, and becomes a pictorial trace of human touch by extractive intervention and the numerous differential relations that constitute it. A selection of new works further investigates the intersections of computation, extraction, architecture, and planetary structures, highlighting “climate dignity” as a critical issue that transcends territorial and geopolitical boundaries. By situating the dialogue within the interdependency of local human gestures, the global technosphere, and planetary metabolic systems, the exhibition challenges the notion of a singular narrative, offering a nuanced perspective on the flows of technology and its impacts. This exhibition is part of the series “IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY: Artistic Collaborations”, a joint initiative by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Künstlerhaus Association Vienna.
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