Installation accompanied by CARE:AOKE participatory event. A new iteration of HOW TO BECOME AN ISLAND?
DTAFA’s solo show, Q21 Schauraum, MuseumsQuartier Vienna (AT), April 2023
Curation: Ruth Schnell, Tommy Schneider
HOW TO BECOME AN ISLAND? _ The Show Room
What would it mean to provide our bodies to the survival and needs of another species?
Hovering between distant curiosity and radical affection the Danube Transformation Agency for Agency (DTAFA) opened their bodies and hearts to a small Danubian bird species: the Little Ringed Plover.
2023 DTAFA was invited to a solo exhibition at the Q21 showroom in the MuseumsQuartier Vienna.
With DTAFA we transformed the HOW TO BECOME AN ISLAND? participatory installation presented in Novi Sad in 2022, into a showroom set up, where the 4-step training course to become an island for the Little Ringed Plover was advertised to the passersby in Museum Quartier of Viena. The various steps were advertised on 4 screens, while love letters to the bird ran across an LED panel. At the audio station, visitors were listen to some facts about Little Ringed Plover mating and breeding habits in an interview with Markus Schmidt, our bird ecologist collaborator, and listen to DTAFA’s standing still training instructions and FAQs.
Click and listen to standing still instruction and FAQs on HOW TO BECOME AN ISLAND.
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Supported by: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (Digitale Kunst), Kulturkommission Neubau
Photos by: Sarah Franzl
“We become with each other or not at all” - Dona Haraway
"You must practice, practice, practice, master your panic. Tense your toes; spread them wide. Think: Oh, my feet are in pain. Drop your shoulders. My eyes itch. O.K., interesting. Blink. Straighten your spine. Breathe into your biceps. Expand your chest. Blink. Breathe. As physical sensations pulse from head to toe, take refuge in sounds. You are to remain safe and comfortable; In order to stay alert, keep your eyes facing forward. The eyes are the point on your body where the bird can see first if you are human. Do not yawn, open your mouth, or make a face. ‘‘Pain is not a reason to move,’’ says John Eicke, the so-called living statue in an interview with Malia Wollan at New York Times. Danube Transformation Agency for Agency wishes you the freedom to try a pose, and grant you the option to bail out if it does not work."
- Danube Transformation Agency for Agency