The Alchemy of Clouds
Art, Activism and Splitting Communities
Installation Digital Culture Social/Urban Movements
For the project, the artist duo of Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani staged an artistic experiment on the grounds of Floating University Berlin in the rainwater reservoir of the decommissioned Tempelhof Airport. This involves a planning game that imagines a speculative scenario in which a glowing cloud floating over a village triggers ominous social division.
In the field of tension between terrestrial and extraterrestrial utopias and dystopias, the video work raises questions we face with regard to climate change: how should we deal with extreme weather events? Do we want to limit our perception to seeing in them only random natural phenomena? Or should we see them as occasion for immediate action? How can the division of society be overcome and how can we generate new models of coexistence for the future? The scenario can be relived on the first P2P weekend in a 6-channel video installation.