Superflux’s exhibition ‘The Craftocene’ is now open at the Weltmuseum in Vienna (tickets here).
I had a wonderful few days with the Superflux team back in February mixing and installing the sound across the three rooms of the exhibition. It’s a great show: there is some further detail about the exhibition sound design and individual pieces here.
The rest of the rooms of the Weltmuseum (and the museums surrounding it) are wonderful to visit (particularly the quite mind blowing scale of the historic musical instrument collection, of which more soon).
A debt of gratitude to everyone at the Weltmuseum for making us so welcome, and in particular to Christoph for working with me over the few days I was there.
To Vienna, a beautiful, epoch traversing city!
'Poetics of Soil: Fly Agaric I' in the Observer
“The most spectacular work in the show concerns this secret labour. The artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast take us on a psychedelic film journey underground to reveal the astonishing role of fungi roots in breaking down and recycling dead plant and animal matter to enrich the soil. This flowing network twinkles like a highway by night, glowing with miraculous colours and sending up the life force into a mushroom above, which in turns sheds its spores out across the air – altering the world’s weather. Merlin Sheldrake’s commentary – about the wild intimacies of our coexistence with soil, how being is always being with, and so on – is pure poetry. And the film continues without cease in the most perfect ecological loop.”
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