/g/o/d/ \Pamela Neuwirth \Harald Purrer

Scenic Story-Telling / Water Chamber-Installation

STWST entrance area, water chamber
Part of exhibition: open throughout

In the age of authoritarianism, there is a battle of narratives. It is necessary to say clearly what is but not more simply than necessary. As the political right creates a front, the resistance of the many different is formed. Slow, subtle, unpredictable, complex, like the invisible processes of nature, life resists destruction. Nature is not an aesthetic ornament but the ultimate instance of truth. If you want to assert yourself in it, you have to face yourself in it—and you will be changed. Or not. Nature is endless, relentless and indifferent, that makes it fascinating and frightening.

Based on the first sentence in Orwell's novel “1984”—“It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”— a stream of consciousness is set in motion. It moves from precise scientific definitions of natural phenomena to the distortions born of conspiracy narratives, presented as alternative truths, weaving strange grid-like patterns across the sky: one of the greatest enemies of clear language is insincerity. Narcissistic hubris and a collective spirit born of slogans blur the understanding and insight shifting the world into the realm of the approximate. In the mire of emotions, a mythical past is re-enacted, burden with unfreedom and unreal promises about the future. In contrast to all this, nature exists. The lotus stands for purity and clarity of consciousness. Born from mud, the flower forms a white blossom that symbolically embodies the pure spirit.

A water world of mud, the lotus flower and UV-light are elements of the scenic storytelling–locked-in, nearly hidden and enclosed in the water chamber staged as a sanatorium, as an oasis of purification from darkness, as a poetic-occult laboratory for restoring truth.

Pamela Neuwirth is part of /g/o/d/ & affiliated with WIMA – Women in Media Arts network.
Her conceptual art practice encompasses text, installation, tech philosophy, and bio art. Hypothetical questions about phenomena deepen artificial interventions in order to reflect on the human condition, time, and matter. Main problem: the infinities (vs. death). Organic and technological elements are translated into gravitative scenes in the art.

Harald Purrer / Artist / e-musician / Anesthesiologist. In 2023, he co-founded the art collective /g/o/d/. Developer of soundscapes for installations. Research, concept development and implementation of the triptych on space-time: Purple Haze – fck tempus fugit – (TTT). With a background in philosophy and literature, he wrote for Times Up's Turnton Gazette or Versorgerin. Artist at stwst48 media art-festivals and ars electronica theme exhibition 2023 with MEMESIS – Oracle of the Anthropocene. http://notton.at

Credits and special thx: MC & Gregor Sulzbacher: Support Projektion.

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